St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-14
PROPOSALS.
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and TRANSPORTATION.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
- Office Of Indian Affairs, Washington,
April 16, 18SS.-Sealed proposals, Endorsed
Proposals for Beef (bids for beef must be
Flour, Clothing or Transportation, etc. las the
case may be), and directed to the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs Nos. 65 and CT
Wooster 3f, street, New York, will be received
furnishing for the Indian service about 90O,-
600 pounds Bacon. 5000, 900 pounds Beef
on the hoof. 25O, 900 pounds Beans 10000
pound, Baking a ing Powder, 100000 pounds
pounds Flour, $4,000 pounds Feed, 1863, 900
pounds Hard Bread, 67 900 pounds Hominy,
10000 pounds Lard, $50 barrels mess pork.
900 pounds Oatmeal, 4ss,00O pounds
Tea, 300, 900 pounds Salt, 273,OOO pounds
Soap. 100000 pounds Sugar, and Il, 900
pounds Wheat.
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton Goods.
Standard Calico, 100000 yards; Drilling
II 900 yards; Duck, free from all sizing, As,
600 yards; Denims, II, 900 yards; Giugham,
100000 yards; Kentucky Jeans, 1900
yards; Cheviot, 10000 yards; Brown Sheet
ing, 24O, 900 yards; Bleached Sheetirg, o.
600 yards; Hickory Shifting, 10000 yards;
Calico Shifting, 5000 yards; Winsey, g. 600
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
the Pacific Coast, with California brakes. de-
hvered at San Francisco,
Also, transportation for such of the arti-
Giles, goods, and supplies that may not be
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 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
structions, will be furnished upon application
to the Indian Office in Washington, or Nos.
90 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 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 per cent of the
amount of the proposal.
j. d. c. ATKINS Commissioner.
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