St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-13
PROPOSALS.
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and TranSnOPtati0Is.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
- Ohice Of Indian Affairs, Washington,
April 16, 19SS.-Sealed proposals. Endorsed
Proposals for Beef (bids for beef must be
submitted in separate envelopes) Bacon,
Flour, Clothing or Transportation, etc (as the
case may be), and directed to the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs, Nos. 90 and 67
Wooster street. New York, will be received
until ] p. m. of Tuesday, May %, 1S98 for
furnishing for the Indian service about 900.
600 pounds Bacon. 36,O0U,0 900 pounds Beef
on the hoof. 25o, 600 pounds Beans, 10000
pounds Baking Powder, 100000 pounds
Corn, $4,000 pounds Coffee, 100000
pounds Flour, $4,000 pounds Feed, l6S 600
pounds Hard Bread, $1,000 pounds Hominy,
1000 pounds Oatmeal, 4Ss,00O pounds
Oats, 122, 900 pounds Rice, 5000 pounds
Tea, 200 pounds Salt, 2T3,00O pounds
Soap, 100000 pounds Sugar, and ~, 900
pounds Wheat.
Also, Blankets, Woolen and Cotton Goods.
consisting in part of Ticking, $4,000 yards;
Standard Calico, 1000 yards; Drilling,
1000 yards; Duck, free from all sizing, 4S,-
2sO,OO0, yards; Kentucky Jeans. 1900
yards; Chevot, 10000 yards; Brown Sheet.
ing, 240, 900 yards; Bleached Sheetirg %.
900 yards; Hickory Shirting, 10000 yards;
yards) Clothing, Groceries, Notions. Hard
ware Medical Supplies, School Books, etc.,
and long list of miscellaneous articles, such
as Harness, Plows, Rakes, Forks, etc. and
ice, to be delivered at Chicago, Kansas City,
and Sioux City. Also for such Wagons as
may be required, adapted to the climate Of
the Pacific Coast, with California brakes, de-
Hyered at San Francisco,
Also, transportation for such of the arti-
cles goods, and supplies that may not be
contracted for to be delivered at the
Agencies.
BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kinds and quaint.
ties of subsistence supplies required for each
agency and school, and the kinds and guam
titles in gross of all other goods and articles
together with blank proposals. conditions to
be observed by bidders, time and place of de-
livery, terms of contract and payment
transportation routes, and all necessary in
structonS: will be furnished upon application
to the Indian Office in Washington, or Nos.
65 and 81 Wooster street, New York: James
Lidgerwood, No. S35 Broadway, New York;
the Commissaries of Subsistence, U. s. A, at
Cheyenne Chicago, Leavenworth Omaha St
Louis, st. Paul and San Francisco; the Post
masters atSioux City and Yankton; and to the
PostmasterS at the following named places in
Kansas: Arkansas City. Burlington, Cald-
Bend, Howard, Hutchinson, Larned, McPher-
son, Marion, Medicine Lodge, Newton Usage
City, Sedan, Sterling, Topeka, Wellington.
Wichita and Winfield.
reject any and all bids, or any part of anv
bid, and these proposals are invited under
proviso that appropriation shall be made for
the supplies by congress.
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 National Bank of Los
Angeles, Cal, for at least per cent of the
amount of the proposal.
j. D. c. ATKINS, Commissioner.
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