St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-22
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UNDER INTERNATIONAL HOTEL
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and TRANSPORTATION.

PREPAYMENT OF THE INTERIOR
IL Office of Indian Affairs Washington,i
April Is, 1SSS.-Sealed proposals, indOrsed
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. 50 and 81
Wooster street. New York, will be received
until / p. M of Tuesday May %, 1888, for
furnishing for the Indian service about 9OO,-
600 pounds Bacon, SO, 600, 900 pounds Beef
on the hoOf. $500 pounds Beans, 10000
pounds Baking Powder, 100000 pounds
pounds Flour, $4,000 pounds Feed 16S, 900
pounds Hard Bread, 81 900 pounds Hominy,
10000 pounds Lard, $50 barrels mess pork
1000 pounds Oatmeal, 48S, 900 pounds
Tea, 800, 900 pounds Salt, 273,000 pounds
Soap, 100000 pounds Sugar, and $4,000
pounds Wheat
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton Goods,
Consisting in part of Ticking, 900 yards;
Standard Calico, 100000 yards; Drilling.
1000 yards; Duck, free from all sizing, 4S,-
600 yards; Denims, 1900 yards; Giugham,
100000 yards; Kentucky Jeans, 1900
yards; Cheviot, 1900 yards; Brown Sheet
ing, 240, 900 yards; Bleached Sheetirg, o.
900 yards; Hickory Shifting, 10000 yards;
Calico Shirting 5000 yards; Winsey, 5000
yards) Clothing, Groceries, Notions. Hard
ware Medical Supplies, School Books, etc,
and q long list of miscellaneous articles, such
as Harness, Plows Rakes, Forks, etc. and
for about $50 Wagons required for the sery-
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 attt'
cles goods, and supplies that may not be
contracted for to be delivered at the
Agencies.
BIDs MUST BE MADE OUT ON GOVERNMENT
BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kinds and quanti'
ties of subsistence supplies required tor 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.
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 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 10 be
present at the opening.
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
All bids must be accompanied by certt'
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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