Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-04-08
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUPPLIES
AND TRANSPORTATION.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

! DEPARTMENT | OF THE INTERIOR
- Office of Indian Affairs, Washington
April 2, l892.-Sealed 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.
50 and 81 Wooster street, New York, will
be received until p. m. of Tuesday, May
3, 1892, for furnishing for the Indian
service about 100000 pounds Bacon,
32,000,0 GOO pounds of Beef on the hoof,
100000 pounds net Beef, $50 900 pounds
Beans, 10000 pounds Baking Powder,
100000 pounds Corn, 40,0O0, pounds
Coffee, 100000 pounds Flour, 10000
pounds Feed, 90, 900 pounds Hard Bread,
10000 pounds Ilominy, 10000 pounds
Lard. 500 barrels Mess PORK, $4,000
pounds Oatmeal, 670,O00 pounds Oats,
10000 pounds Rice, $4,000 pounds Tea,
$780, 900 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,
10000 yards; Standard Calico, G6,O00
yards; Drilling, 10000 yards; Duck, free
from all sizing, $4,000 yards Denims,
10000 yards; Gingham, 100000 yards !;
Kentucky Jeans, $500 yards; Cheviot,
$4,000 yards; Brown Sheetng, 24O, 900
yards; Bleached Sheeting, 80 900 yards;
Hickory Shirting, 10000 yards; Calico
Shirting, 5000 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 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 auan-
titles OF subsistence supplies required for
each Agency and School, and the kinds
and quantities in gross, OF all other goods
anu aitlCieS, tOStsuoT WIFI Dluuk 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. 65 and
67 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
day above stated, and bidders are invited
to be present at the opening.
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
All bids must be accompanied by certi-
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.
TT MORGAN Corniss;opor