The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-21
PROPOSALS FOX INDIAN SUPPLIES AND
TRANSPORTATION

IMPAIRMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Of
Ofce of Indian affairs, Washington. April :,
1S92.-Sealed proposals, Endorsed Proposals
for beef. (bids for beef must be submitted in
separate envelopes, bacon, -four, clothing or
transportation, etc las the case may bel,
and directed to the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, Nos. IS and 81 Wooster street, New
York, will be received until p. m. of Tuesday,
May 2 1892 for furnishing for the Indian SER
vice about 100000 pourds Bacon, 100000
pounds Beef on the hoof, 100000 pounds net
ing Powder. 2,300.000 pounds Corn, $4,000
pounds Coffee. 100000 pounds Flour, 1900
pounds Feed, $4,000 pounds Hard Bread, 40
600 pounds Hominy. 5000 pounds Lard, $50 bar
rels Mess Pork, 1900 pounds Dat Meal. go coo
pounds oats, 10000 pounds rice. 1900 pounds
tea, 600 pounds coarse salt, 1850 pounds
fine salt. $4,000 pounds soap. 100000 pounds
sugar and 10000 pounds wheat,
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton goods.
consisting in part of ticking. 1859 yards;
Standard Calico, $500 yards: Drilling, 1900
Yards: Duck, free from all sizing. $500 yards,
Denims, 10000 yards; Bingham, 10000 yards;
Kentucky Jeans, $500 yards; Cheviot, 5000
Y ards; Brown Sheeting, 240 900 yards; Bleached
Sheeting, $500 yards; Hickory Shifting 1000
yards Calico Shifting, 5000 yards: Clothing,
Groceries, Notions, Hardware, Medical Sup.
plies, School Books, etc. and 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 Chi
cago, Kansas City and Sioux City. Also for
such wagons may be required, adapted 10
the climate OF the racine coast, Win OalliOT-
mia 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 BE MADE OUT on GOVERNMENT
BLANKS
Schedules showing the kinds and quantities
of subsistence supplies required for each
Agency and School. and the kinds and quanti-
ties in gross, OF all other goods and articles to-
gether with blank proposals, conditions 20 be
observed by bidders, time and place OF deIly-
ery term of contract and payment, transpor-
tation routes. and all other necessary instruc
tons viii be furnished upon application TO the
Indian Office in Washington or Nos O. and 81
Wooster street, New York the COmmissaries
OF Subsistence, L. :. A. at Cheyenne, Chicago,
Leavenworth, Omaha, st. Louis. st. Paul and
San Francisco: the Postmasters at Sioux City,
Ia; Yankton. 5. D., Arkansas City. Caldwell,
Topeka and Wichita, Kan, and Tuscon, Ariz.
The right is reserved by the Government 10
reject any and all bids, or any part OF any bid,
and these proposals are invited under provlso
that appropriation shall be made Tor 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 certified
checks or drafts upon some United states De-
pository or the First National bank OF san
Francisco. Cal, for at least 5per cent, OF the
amount of the proposal.
1875 b-l5oO let- I J. MORGAN. Commissioner,