St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-03
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and TRANSFORMATIONS.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
~ Office of Indian Affairs, Washington
Proposals for Beef (bids for beef must be
submitted in separate envelopes). Bacon,
Flour, Clothing or Transportation, etc. (as the
case may beg, and directed to the Commits
sloner OF Indian Affairs, Nos. 90 and 67
Wooster street. New York, will be received
until pm. of Tuesday, May %, 1883, for
furnishing for the Indian service about 90O,-
900 pounds Bacon. $4,000, 000 pounds Beef
pounds Baking Powder, 100000 pounds
Corn, ass, 900 pounds Coffee, 5000 900
pounds Flour, 10000 pounds Feed, 16S,O0U
pounds Hard Bread, $1,000 pounds Hominy,
1000 pounds Oatmeal, 4SS,O00 pounds
Oats, 122, 900 pounds Rice. 1900 pounds
Tea, 800, 900 pounds Salt, 273,000 pounds
Soap, 100000 pounds Sugar, and Do, 900
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton Goods,
consisting in part of Ticking, $4,000 yards;
Standard Calico, 100000 yards; Drilling.
II 900 yards; Duck, free from all sizing, As
600 yards; DENNIS, 1900 yards; Giugham,
$4,000 yards; Kentucky Jeans, 1900
yards; Cheviot, 1000 yards; Brown Sheet
ing, $40 900 yards; Bleaehed Sheetirg, o.
900 yards; Hickory Shifting, 10000 yards:
Calico Shifting, 5000 yards; Winsey, 5000
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
for ABOUT $50 Wagons required for the serv-
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-
livered at San Francisco,
Also, transportation for such of the arti-
cles, goods, and supplies that may not he
contracted for to be delivered at the
Agencies.
MUST BE MADE OUT ON GOVERNMENT
BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kinds and quanti-
ties of subsistence supplies required for each
agency and school, and the kinds and ouan
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.
structions. will be furnished upon application
to the Indian Office i'll Washington, or Nos.
90 and 81 Wooster street, New York; James
Lidgerwood, No. S35 Broadway, New York:
the Commissaries of Subsistence, L. s. A., at
Cheyenne, Chicago, Leavenworth, Omaha St.
Louis, ST. Paul and San Francisco; the Post
masters at Sioux City and Yankton; and to the
PoStmasterS at the following named places in
Kansas: Arkansas City. Burlington, Cald-
well, Dodge City, Emporia, Eureka Great
Bend, Howard, Hutchinson, Larned McPher-
son, Marion, Medicine Lodge, Newton, Usage
City Sedan, Sterling, Topeka, wellington
Wichita and Winfield.
The right is reserved by the Government to
reject any and all bids, or any part OF any
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 5 per cent of the
amount OF the proposal.
- j. D. G. ATKINS, Commissioner.
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