Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-10-08
The PENITENTIARY BOARD.
The Awarding of Contracts Demand of
the Asylum Board -Manufactur-
ing Brick.

The penitentiary commissioners closed
up their work yesterday afternoon of let
ting contracts for supplies for that insttu-
ton during the ensuing six months. Con-
tracts were awarded as follows:
Fresh beef to August Kirchner at $4.94
per cwt.
Bacon to A. Stab at 1854.
Beans to WedeIes & Eldodt at 1915
per cwt.
Rice to A. Staab at $3.50 per cwt.
Arbuckle's coffee to A. Staab at $22.9S
per cwt.
Climax tobacco to Wedeles & Eldodt at
1920 per cwt.
Flour, Blanco brand, Alamosa mills, to
IL. B. Cartwright at 1924 per cwt.
Soap at AZ per pound; convicts' cloth
ing car of baled hay at $l3 80 per ton I;
leather, brown domestics at IA ETC., were
also awarded to Mr.. Staab.
Grunsfeld, Lindheim 4 Co. secured
large proportion of the dry goods, hats,
ETC., also big supply of the new tools,
picks, shovels, etc.
! Wedeles & Eldodt got the contract on
Mariners stripped goods at l0c per yard !;
also the thread contract, and number OF
other articlesin their line, including syrup
at &c per gallon.
Reaser was awarded the coal contract
at $4.57; bran at $1.15.
| The wood contract went to Grunsfeld,
| Lindheim & Go. at 1920 and So 80 per
cord.
The granulated sugar contract was
awarded to Wedeles & Eldodt at Sc. 69
per cwt., and lard at So rs.
G. W. Dudrow got the lumber contract,
assorted rough, at $40 per 1000 feet.
| The hardware contracts, as were the
other articles, are pretty well divided up
amoung the various bidders.
As o rule the bids were very close to-
gether. In fact in a number of cases the
commissioners clipped nickels" to de-
eide which bidder should have the con-
tract. For instance, on baking powder
Staab's bid was $3.50 per cwt and We'd
eles & Eldodt $35.75. The chill contract
was tie, $ll so per cwt. and Wedeles &
Eldodt got it on draw.
The only out of town bidder was 7. j.
Keleher, of Albuquerque, on the shoe and
leather contract, but local dealers were
away below him.
The board received demand from the
trustees of the territorial insane asylum
at Las Vegas for 10000 penitentiary
made brick, the law OF 1889 providing
that territorial institutions shall have
such material free of cost. AS to grant
ing the demand, however, serious ques.
ton came up because of the fact that the
later law of 1891 stipulates that all brick
manufactured by convict labor shall be
duly advertised for sale and disposed OF
to the highest bidder for cash. The la.
ter law says none of its provisions shall
conflict with sections "a and 55, chapter
l2S, laws OF 1889, but this refers merely
to convict labor on public institutions
and lot to brick. The board decided tc
ask the solicitor generals opinion as tc
whether the demand of the asylum trus
tees can be granted.
The board received reports to the effect
that nearly 100000 brick have this
summer been made by the convicts, ano
the work is progressing very satisfac
torily. During the past month some
10000 first-class fire Clay brick have beer
made, the clay for such having beer
hauled from the foothills near Fischer'l
brewery. The board has decided to keeI
the convictJ at work during the winter
manufacturing lime, and these fire clay
brick are to be used in lining the lime
kilns.