St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-25
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and Transportation.
DEPARTMENT OF mi

l IMPAIRMENT OF THE INTERlOR,
~ Office of Indian Affairs, Washington
April 16, 188S.-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. 10 and G7
Wooster street, New York, will be received
until p. IN, of Tuesday, May %, 1883, for
furnishing for the Indian service about 90O,-
600 pounds Bacon 81, 900, 900 pounds Beef
on the h0of. go, 600 pounds Beans, $4,000
pounds Baking Powder, 1,OOOOOO pounds
Corn, 4S5,0O pounds Coffee, 9,000.0O0
pounds Flour, 10000 pounds Feed los, 900
pounds Hard Bread, 81. 900 pounds Hominy
10000 pounds Lard, $50 barrels mess pork.
1000 pounds Oatmeal, 4SS,00O pounds
Oats, 122, 900 pounds Rice. 1000 pounds
Tea, 100000 pounds Salt 273,0O0 pounds
Soap, 100000 pounds Sugar, and 1000
pounds Wheat.
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton Goods,
Consisting in part of Ticking, Is, 900 yards;
Standard Calico, 10000 yards Drilling.
IL, 200 yards; Duck free from all sizing, As
600 yards; DENNIS, 1900 yards; Giugham,
100000 yards; Kentucky Jeans, 1900
yards; Cheviot II, coo yards; Brown Sheet
ing, $40, 900 yards; Bleachcd Sheetrg, o.
900 yards; Hickory Shifting, 10000 yards;
Calico Shifting, 5000 yards; Winsey, 6,00O
YARDS Clothing, Groceries, Notions. Hard
ware, Medical Supplies, School Books, etc,
and long list of miscellaneous articles such
as Harness. Flows, Rakes, Forks, etc. and
for about 500 Wagons required for the serv-
ice, to be delivered at Chicago, Kansas City,
and Sioux City. Also for such Wagons az
may be required. adapted to the climate of
the Pacific Coast, with California brakes. de-
livered ut San Francisco,
Also, transportation for such of the afti-
clcs, goods, and supplies that may not be
contracted for to be delivered ut the
Assne,iIee.ss:u ~ x.nr o,,n 80 ,ovs,v,,.,.,
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
structiens, will be furnished upon application
to the Indian Office I'm Washington, or Nos
TO and 81 Wooster street, New York; James
LidgerwoOd, No S35 Broadway New York;
the Commissaries of Subsistence, L. S. A., at
Cheyenne, Chicago, Leayenworth, 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. ID. C. ATKINS, Commissioner.
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