St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-04
DYE WORKS.
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and TRANSFORMATION.

i 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. to and ~
Wooster street, New York, will be received
until p. m of Tuesday, May 20, 1883, for
furnishing for the Indian service about 900,-
600 pounds Bacon. SO, ,000, 900 pounds Beef
on the hoof. 100000 pounds Beans, 10000
pounds Baking Powder, 100000 pounds
Corn, 4S5, 900 pounds Coffee, 100000
pounds Flour $4,000 pounds Feed, 16S, ,O0U
pounds Hard Bread, 67 900 pounds Hominy,
1000 pounds Oatmeal 4SS,000 pounds
Oats, 10000 pounds Rice. 5000 pounds
Tea, 100000 pounds Salt, 2T3,000 pounds
Soap, 100000 pounds Sugar, and $4,000
pounds Wheat.
Also, Blankets Wooden and Cotton Goods,
Consisting in part of Ticking, $4,000 yards;
Standard Calico, 10000 yards; Drilling,
1000 yards; Duck, free from all sizing, AS
900 yards: Denims, 1900 yards; Giugham,
2SO,OO0 yards; Kentucky Jeans, 1900
yards; Cheviot, II, 900 yards; Brown Sheet
ing, 240, 900 yards; Bleached Sheetirg, %
900 yards; Hickory Shirting, 10000 yards;
Calico Shirting, 6,000 yards; Winsey, 6.O0u
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.
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 quaint
ties of subsistence supplies required for each
agency and school, and the kinds and quan
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
% and 81 Wooster street, New York; Jamei
Lidgerwood, No. S33 Broadway, New York
the Commissaries of Subsistence, L. S. A, al
Cheyenne, Chicago Leavenworth, Omaha, st
Louis, st. Paul and San Francisco; the Post
masters at Sioux City and Iankton; 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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