St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-23
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and Transportation.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
- Office of Indian Affairs, Washingtons
Proposals for Beef Cbids for beef must bel
submitted in separate enyelopes), BaconS
Flour Clothing or Transportation, etc. las thd
case may be), and directed to the Commist
sioner OF Indian Affairs, Nos. 90 and %
Wooster street, New York, will be received
until l p m. of Tuesday, May %, 1888, for
furnishing for the Indian service about 90O,-i
900 pounds Bacon. SO, DOC, 600 pounds BeeE
on the hoof. 25O,0 pounds Beans, 79,OON
Corn, 1856, 900 pounds Coffee, 100000
pounds Flour, SO, 600 pounds Feed l68, 00U
pounds Hard Bread, 81 900 pounds HominyS
10000 pounds Lard, $50 barrels mess pork.
1000 pounds Oatmeal, ASS, 900 pounds
Oats, 122, 900 pounds Rice, 5000 pounds
Tea, 300, 600 pounds Salt, 273,00O pounds
Soap, 100000 pounds Sugar, and $4,000
pounds Wheat.
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton Gooda
consisting in part of Ticking, Is, 600 yardsi
Standard Calico, 1901 yards; Drillingl
IL 1000 yards; Duck, free from all sizing. 4S..
900 yards; DENNIS, 1900 yards; Giugham,
100000 yards; Kentucky Jeans, 1900
yards; Cheviot, 1000 yards; Brown Sheet
ing, 24O, 900 yards; Bleached Sheetirg, o..
900 yards; Hickory Shifting, 10000 yards;
Calico Shifting, 5000 yards; Winsey 6,0OO
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 aftfs
cles, goods, and supplies that may not be
contracted for to be delivered at tho
Agencies.
MUST BE MADE OUT ON GOVERNMENT
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.
structions, will be furnished upon application
to the Indian Office in Washington, or Nos.
65 and 81 Wooster street. New York; Jamea
Lidgerwood, No. S35 Broadway, New York;
the Commissaries of Subsistence, L. S. A., az
Cheyenne, Chicago, Leavenworth, Omaha, ST.
Louis, st. Paul and San Francisco; the Post.
masters at Sioux City and Yankton; and TO tha
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
bid and these proposals are invited under
proviso that appropriation shall be made foi
the supplies by congress.
Bids will be opened at the hour and day
above stated, and bidders are invited 10 ID
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. c. ATKINS, Commissioner.
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