Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-04-07
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUPPLIES
AND TRANSPORTATION.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
~ Office of Indian AfFaiys Woshin,,or

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
- Office OF Indian Affairs, Washington,
April 2, 1S92.-Seaed proposals, indorsed
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 Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Nos,
To and 81 Wooster street, New York, will
be received until p. m. of Tuesday. NAV
=, 1892, for furnishing for the Indian
service about 100000 pounds Bacon,
$4,000, 900 pounds of Beef on the hoof,
zoe, 900 pounds net Beef, $50, 1000 pounds
Beans, 10000 pounds Baking Powder,
1900, 900 pounds Corn, $4,000, pounds
Coffee, 100000 pounds Flour, 10000
pounds Feed, $1,000 pounds Hard Bread,
10000 pounds Hominy, 10000 pounds
Lard. 500 barrels Mess Pork, $4,000
pounds Oatmeal, $4,000 pounds Oats,
100000 pounds Rice, $4,000 pounds Tea,
10000 pounds Coarse Salt, 100000
pounds Fine Salt, 100000 pounds Soap,
100000 Sugar, and 10000 pounds
Wheat.
Also, Blankets, Woolen and Cotton
Goods, consisting in part of Ticking,
$4,000 yards; Standard Calico, $1,000
yards; Drilling, 10000 yards; Duck, free
from all sizing, $4,000 yards; Denims,
10000 yards; Gingham, 300, 900 yards
Kentucky Jeans, $500 yards Cheviot,
$4,000 yards; Brown Sheeting, 24O 900
yards; Bleached Sheeting, 35 900 yards
Hickory Shirting, 10000 yards; Calico
Shirting, 5000 yards); Clothing, Grocer
les, Notions, Hardware, Medical Supplies
School Books, etc, and a long list of
miscellaneous articles, such as Harness.
Plows, Rakes; Forks, etc., and for about
$40 Wagons required for the service, 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,
delivered at San Francisco.
Also, transportation for such OF the
articles, goods, and supplies that may not
be contracted for 10 be delivered at the
Agencies.
BIDS MUST BE MADE OUT ON GOVERNMENT
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,
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. 65 and
81 Wooster street, New York; the Com.
missaries of Subsistence, U. s. A., at
Cheyenne, Chicago, Leavenworth, Omaha,
Saint Louis, Saint Paul, and San Fran
cisco; the Postmasters at Sioux CITY,
lowa; Yankton, S. Dakota; Arkansas
Jity, Caldwell, Topeka, and Wichita,
Kansas, and Tucson, Arizona.
The right is reserved by the Govern.
nent to reject any and all bids, or any
'art of any bid, and these proposals are
invited under proviso that appropriation
hall be made for the supplies by Con-
ress.
Bids will be opened at the hour and
lay above stated, and bidders are invited
o be present at the opening.
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
All bids must be accompanied by certi-
led checks or drafts upon some United
tates Depository or the First National
'ank OF San Francisco, CAL, for at least
We per cent. Of the amount of the propo-
al.
T. j. MORGAN, Commissioner.