, 1888-05-13
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUP
PLIES AND TRANSPORTATION.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Office
Uof indian Affairs, Washington, April 16,

DEPARTMENT OF TILE INTERIOR, Office
Uof indian Affairs, Washington, April 16,
lSSS.-Sealed proposals, Endorsed Pro
posals for Beef (bids for Beef must be
submitted in separate envelopes), Bacon,
Flour, Clothing, or transportation. &c,
las the case may be), and directed to the
COMMISSIONS of Indian Affairs, Nos IS
and 81 Wooster street, Neto York, will be
received until | p. NJ. OF Tuesday, MAJ
%, 1888, for furnishing for the Indian
service about SOC, 900 pounds Bacon, &c.
100000 pounds Beef on the hoof, $780,
900 pounds Beans, 10000 pounds Baking
Powder, 1000, 900 pounds Corn, 4S5, 900
pounds Coffee, 100000 pounds Flour,
$4,000 pounds Feed, 16S,00 0 pounds
Hard Bread, 1000 pounds Hominy, 90
600 pounds Lard, $50 barrels mess pork,
IL, 900 pounds Oatmeal, 4SS, 900 pounds
Oats, l22, 0C0 pounds Rice, 5000 pounds
Tea, 300, 600 pounds Salt, 273,000 pounds
Soap, $40, 900 pounds Sugar, and AZ, 900
pounds Wheat.
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton
Goods, consisting in part of Ticking, 49,
600 yards; Standard Calico, 100, 600 yards;
Drilling, IL 200 yards; Duck, free from
all sizing, 4 $4,000 yards; Denims, II, 900
yards; Bingham, $4,000 yards; Ken
lucky Jeans, 1000 yards; Cheviot, l2,-
900 yards; Brown Sheeting, 240, 00O
yards; Bleached Sheeting, $4,000 yards;
Hickory Shifting, 10000 yards; Calico
Shirtlng, 5000 yards; Winsey, 5000
YARDS: Clothing, Groceries, Notions,
Hardware, Medical Supplies, School
Books, &c, and a long list of miscellane.
Gus articles, such as Harness, Flows,
Rakes, Forks, &C., and for about $50
Wagons required for the service, to be
delivered at Chicago, Kansas City anG
Sioux City. Also for such Wagons as
may be required, adapted to the climate
Of the Pacific Coast, with California
brakes, delivered at San Francisco.
Also, transportation for such of the
articles, goods, and supplies that may not
be contracted for to be delivered at the
Agencies.
BIDS MUST BE MADE OUT ON GOVERN
MENT BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kinds and guam,
titles of subsistence supplies required FOL
each Agency and School, and the kind:
and quantities in gross, of all other goods
and articles, together with blank propos
ais, conditions to be observed by bidders,
time and place of delivery, terms of con.
tract and payment, transportation routes
and all other necessary Instructions will bt
furnished upon application to the Indiar
Office in Washington, or Nos. 65 and 81
Wooster street, NeU York; James Lid
gerwood, No. S35 Broadway, New
York; the Commissaries of Subsistence
u. s. A, at Cheyenne, Chicago, Leaven
worth, Omaha, Saint Louis, Saint Pau
and San Francisco; the Postmasters al
Sioux City and Yankton; and to the Post
masters at the following named places il
Kansas: Arkansas City, Burlington, Cald
well, Dodge City, Emporia, Eureka
Great Bend, Howard, Hutchinson
Larned, Mcpherson, Marion, Medicine
Lodge, Newton, Usage City, Sedan, Ster
ling, Topeka, Wellington, Wichita anC
Winfield.
The right is reserved by the Govern,
ment to reject any and all bids, or any
part of any bid, and these proposals are
invited under proviso that appropriations
shall be made for the supplies by Con.
gress.
Bids will be opened at the hour and
day above stated, and bidders are invited
to be present at the opening.
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
All bids must be accompanied by certi'
fed checks or drafts upon some United
States Depository or the First Nationa
Bank of Los Angeles, Cal, for at leas
fve per cent of the amount of the propo
col n ~ ATKINS To,,,, an cei.o,la