Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-04-06
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUPPLIES
AND NDTRANSPORTATION

| DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
II Office OF Indian fairs, Washington
April 2, 1892. Sealed proposals, indorsed
Proposals for Beef, bids for Beef must
he submitted in separate enveopes) ,
Bacon, Flour, Clothing, or Transportation
ETC., (as the case may hel, and directed to
the Commissioner of indian Affairs, Nos.
50 and 67 Wooster street, New York, will
be received until p. m. OF Tuesday, MAY
5, 1892, for furnishing for the Indian
service about 700 600 pounds Bacon.
50 100000 pounds OF Beef on the hoof.
POO, 600 pounds net Beef, $50 900 pounds
Beans, 10000 pounds Baking Powder
2,30O 900 pounds Corn, $4,000, pounds
Coffee, 100000 pounds Flour, 5000
pounds Feed, 9j 900 pounds Hard Bread
10000 pounds Hominy, 10000 pounds
Lard $50 barrels Mess PORK, $4,000
pounds Oatmeal, G7O,0OO pounds Oats
10000 pounds Rice, $4,000 pounds Tea,
10000 pounds Coarse Salt, 10000
pounds Fine Salt, 100000 pounds Soap,
100000 Sugar, and 10000 pounds
Wheat.
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton
Goods, Consisting in part of Ticking,
1900 yards; Standard Calico, $4,000
yards; Drilling, 10000 yards Duck, free
from all sizing, $1,000 yards; Denims,
10000 yards; Gingham, 800, 900 yards
Kentucky Jeans, $500 yards Cheviot,
$4,000 yards; Brown Sheeting, 24O ,OO6
yards Bleached Sheeting, 50 900 yards;
Hickory Shring, 10000 yards; Calico
Shirling, 5000 yards; Clothing, Grocer
les, Notions, Hardware, Medical Supplies,
School Books, etc, and long list Of
miscellaneous articles, such as Harness,
PIows, Rakes, Forks, ETC., and for about
$40 Wagons required for the service, to
be delivered at Oh cago, Kansas City, and
Sioux City. Also for such Wagons as
may he required adapted to the climate
OF the Pacific Coast, with California brakes,
delivered at San Francisco.
Also, transportation for such of the
articles, goods, and supplies that may not
be contracted for TO be delivered at the
Agencies.
BIDS MUST DE MADE OUT ON GOV ERNMENT
BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kinds and guam
titles OF subsistence supplies required for
each Agency and School, and the kinds
and quantities in gross, of all other goods
and articles, together with blank proposals,
conditions to be observed by bidders,
time and place of delivery, terms OF con
tract and payment, transportation routes,
and all other necessary instructions will
be furnished upon application to the In.
dian Office in Washington, or Nos. IS and
81 Wooster street, New York; the Com
missaries Of Subsistence, y. S. A., at
Cheyenne, Chicago, Leavenworth, Omaha,
Saint Louis, Saint Paul, and San Fran
CISCO the Postmasters at Sioux City,
Iowa; Yankton, S. Dakota; Arkansas
City, Caldwell, Topeka, and Wichita,
Kansas, and Tucson, Arizona.
The right is reserved by the Govern.
ment 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 Con.
gress.
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 cert- J
fed checks or drafts upon some United !
States Depository or the First National
Bank OF San Francisco, CAL, for at least
five per cent. OF the amount OF the propo-
sal.
r, j. MORGAN. Commissioner