St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-15
TO EXCHANGE.
PROPOSALS.
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and TRANSPORTATION.
OF THE INTERIOR.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
~ Office of Indian Affairs. Washington.
April 16, lSSS.-Sealed proposals. Endorsed
Proposals for Beef (bids for beef must be
submitted in separate envelopes), Bacon,
Flour, Clothing or Transportation, etc. las the
case may be-, and directed to the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs, Nos. 90 and 81
Wooster street. New York, will be received
until l p. m, of Tuesday, May %, 1888, for
furnishing for the Indian service about 900,-
900 pounds Bacon. sc, 1000 900 pounds Beef
on the hoof. $50, 900 pounds Beans, 10000
pounds Baking Powder, 100000 pounds
Corn, 4S5 900 pounds Coffee, 100000
pounds Flour, $4,000 pounds Feed, 16S,00O
pounds Hard Bread, 81, 900 pounds Hominy,
1000 pounds Oatmeal 4SS,0OO pounds
Oats, 100, 900 pounds Rice. 1000 pounds
Tea 300, 900 pounds Salt, $4,000 pounds
Soap, 100000 pounds Sugar, and 1900
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton Goods,
consisting in part of Ticking, 10, 900 yards;
Standard Calico, 100000 yards; Drilling.
1000 yards; Duck free from all sizing, As
600 yards; DENNIS, II, 900 yards; Giugham,
100000 yards; Kentucky Jeans, 1900
yards; Cheviot, IL, 600 yards; Brown Sheet
ing, 240, 900 yards; Bleached Sheetirg. o.
600 yards; Hickory Shifting, 10000 yards;
Calico Shifting, 6,00O yards. Winsey. 5000
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-
livered at San Francisco,
Also, transportation for such of the atti
cles, goods, and supplies that may not be
contracted for to be delivered ut 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 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
Iidgerwood, No. $50 Broadway, New York;
the Commissares 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 or 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 he 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.
j. d. C. ATKINS, Commissioner.
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