Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-04-09
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUPPLIES
AND NDTRANSPORTATION.

| DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
u Office Of Indian fairs, Washington
April 2, lS92.-Sealed proposals, indorsed
Proposals for Beef, (hids for Beef must
be submitted in separate envelopeg),
Bacon, Flour Clothing, or Transportation
ETC., (as the case may be), and directed to
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Nos.
65 and ~ Wooster street, New York, will
be received until p. m. of Tuesday, MAY
), 1892, for furnishing for the Indian
service about 100000 pounds Bacon,
32 ,0j0,000 pounds of Beef on the hoof,
200 900 pounds net Beef, $50 900 pounds
Beans, 10000 pounds Baking Powder,
100000 pounds Corn, 0,000, pounds
Coffee, 100000 pounds Flour, 10000
pounds Feed, 95 900 pounds Hard Bread,
10000 pounds Hominy, 10000 pounds
I,srd. $50 barrels Mess Pork, $4,000
pounds Oatmeal, 100000 pounds Oats,
lao 900 pounds Rice. $1,000 pounds Tea,
$4,000 pounds Coarse Salt, l20, 900
pounds Fine Salt, 100000 pounds Soap,
100000 Sugar, and 10000 pounds
| Wheat
Also, Blankets, Wooen and Cotton
Goods, Consisting in part of Ticking,
$4,000 yards; Standard Calico, 1000
yards Drilling, 10000 yards; Duck, free
from all sizing, $4,000 yards; Denims,
10000 yards; Gingham, 800 900 yards !;
Kentucky Jeans, $500 yards; Cheviot,
$4,000 yards; Brown Sheeting, 24O 900
yards Bleached Sheeting, 50 900 yards ;
Hickory Shirtng, 10000 yards; Calico
Shifting, G,O00 yards); Clothing, Grocer
les, Notions, Hardware, Medical Supplies
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 ct 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,
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
miasaries of Subsistence, U. 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
dsy above stated, and bidders are invited
to be present at the opening.
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
All bids must be accompanied by cert.
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.
T. J. MORGAN, Commissioner.