St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-11
PROPOSALS.
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and Transportation.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
- Office Of Indian Affairs, Washington,
Proposals for Beef (bids for beef must be
submitted in separate enyelopes), Bacon,
Flour, Clothing or Transportation. etc. (as the
case may be-, and directed to the Commits
Wooster street. New York, will be received
until l p m, of Tuesday May %, 1885, for
furnishing for the Indian service about 90O-
600 pounds Bacon: 36, 900, 900 pounds Beef
on the hoof. 100000 pounds Beans, $4,000
pounds Baking Powder, 100000 pounds
Corn, 4S5. 1000 pounds Coffee, 100000
pounds Flour, $4,000 pounds Feed, 16S, 900
pounds Hard Bread, 81 900 pounds Hominy,
LOCO pounds Oatmeal, 4SS,000 pounds
Oats, 122. 900 pounds Rice, 5000 pounds
Tea, 300, 900 pounds Salt, 273,OO0 pounds
Soap, $4,000 pounds Sugar, and ~, 900
Also, Blankets Wooden and Cotton Goods,
consisting in part of Ticking II, 900 yards;
Standard Calico, 100000 yards; Drilling.
II 900 yards; Duck, free from all sizing AS,
600 yards; Denims, 1900 yards; Giugham,
10000 yards; Kentucky Jeans II, 900
: yards; Cheviot, II, 600 yards; Brown Sheet
ing 240, 600 yards; Bleached Sheetirg, o.
600 yards; Hickory SHIFTING, 10000 yards;
Calico Shifting, 6,OO0 yards; Winsey, 5000
yards) Clothing, Groceries, Notions. Hard
ware, Medical Supplies, School Books etc,
and Il long list of miscellaneous articles, such
as Harness, Flows, 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-
liyered at San Francisco,
Also, transportation for such of the atti-
cles 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
TO and 81 Wooster street, New York; James
Lidgerwood, No. S35 Broadway, New York;
the CommlssarieS of Subsistence, L. S. A. at
Cheyenne, Chicago, Leavenworth, Omalia 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
provlso 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 3 per cent of the
amount of the proposal. 's+
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