St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-28
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and TRANSFORMATIONS.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
- Office of Indian Affairs Washington,
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. 65 and 81
Wooster street, New York, will be received
until p. M of Tuesday, May %, 1888, for
furnishing for the Indian service about 90O,-
900 pounds Bacon. 36, ,0O0, 900 pounds Beef
on the hoof. 250,0O0 pounds Beans, $4,000
pounds Baking Powder, 1,O0O,0 600 pounds
pounds Flour, $4,000 pounds Feed, 16S, 200
pounds Hard Bread, 81, 900 pounds Hominy,
20, 900 pounds Lard, $50 barrels mess pork.
1000 pounds Oatmeal 488,O00 pounds
Oats, 122, 900 pounds. Rice, 5000 pounds
Soap, 100000 pounds Sugar, and $4,000
pounds Wheat
Also Blankets Woolen and Cotton Goods
Consisting in part of Ticking, Is, 900 yards;
Standard Calico, 100000 yards; Drilling.
IL 900 yards; Duck, free from all sizing, As
600 yards; Denims, 1900 yards; Giugham,
$4,000 yards; Kentucky Jeans, 1900
yards; Cheviot, 10000 yards; Brown Sheet
ing. 24O, 900 yards; Bleached Sheetirg, o.
Calico Shirting, 5000 yards; Winsey, 6,OOO
yards) Clothing Groceries, Notions. Hard
ware, Medical Supplies, School Books, etc.,
and long list of miscellaneous articles, such
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 arti-
cles, goods, and supplies that may not be
contracted for to be delivered at the
Agencies.
MUST BE MADE OUT ON GOVERNMENT
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.
IS 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 5 per cent of the
amount of the proposal.
j. D. G. ATKINS, Commissioner.
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