St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-16
PROPOSALS.
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and TRANSPORTATION.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
- once OF Indian Affairs, Washington,
April 10, 1SSS.-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. 65 and 67
Wooster street, New York, will be received
until p. m. of Tuesday, May %, 1888, for
furnishing for the Indian service about 90O.-
600 pounds Bacon. $4,000, 600 pounds Beef
on the hoof. 100000 pounds Beans, $4,000
pounds Baking Powder, 100000 pounds
pounds Flour, $4,000 pounds Feed, l6S, 900
pounds Hard Bread, 81 900 pounds Hominy,
10000 pounds Lard, $50 barreIs mess pork
1900 pounds Oatmeal, Ass, 900 pounds
Oats, 122, 900 pounds Rice, 5000 pounds
Tea, 10000 pounds Salt, 273,O0O pounds
Soap, $4,000 pounds Sugar, and ~, 600
pounds Wheat.
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton Goods,
consisting in part of Ticking, 10, 600 yards:
Standard calico, 100000 yards; Drilling,
1000 yards; Duck, free from all sizing, As
coo yards; DENNIS, 1900 yards; Giugham,
2s0;000, yards; Kentucky Jeans, 1900
ing, 24O, 1000 yards; Bleached Sheetirg, o.
600 yards; Hickory Shirting 10000 yards;
Calico Shifting, 5000 yards; Winsey, 5000
yards Clothing Groceries, Notions. Hard
and 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-
Hvered at San Francisco,
Also, transportation for such of the arti-
Giles, 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 ouanti-
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 observedby 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 ana 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 atSioux 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 approximation 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-
hed checks or drafts upon some United States
depository, or the First National Bank of Los
Angeles, Cal, for at least 8 per cent of the
amount of the proposal.
j. ID. G. ATKINS, Commissioner.
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