The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-26
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUPPLIES AND
TRANSPORTATION

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, OF
! Ofice of Indian fairs, Washington. April 2,
!S82:-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 be).
and directed to the Commissioner of Indian
! Affairs, Nos. IS and 81 Wooster street, New
| Nork, will be received until p m. of Tuesday,
May z, 1892 for furnishing for the Indian ser
/ vice about 1OO.0O0 pounds Bacon, 32,0OO,OOO
pounds Beef on the hoof, 100000 pounds net
| ing Powder, 100000 pounds Corn, $4,000
pounds Coffee, 100000 pounds Flour, 1900
pounds Feed, $4,000 pounds Hard Bread, 40
| 600 pounds Hominy. 10000 pounds Lard, $50 bar
rels Mess Pork, 600 pounds Dat Meal, 670OO0
pounds oats, 10000 pounds rice, 2, 600 pounds
tea, 100, 600 pounds coarse salt, 10000 pounds
hne salt, 100000 pounds soap, 100000 pounds
sugar apd 10000 pounds wheat
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton goods.
consisting in part Of ticking, 1900 yards;
STANDARD Calico, 5000 yards; Drilling, 1900
yards: Duck, free from all sizing, 5000 yards,
DENNIS, 10000 yards; Bingham, 10000 yards;
kehtucky Jeans, $500 yards; Cheviot, 5000
Y ards; Brown Sheeting, A0, 600 yards; Bleached
Sheeting, 5000 yards; Hickory Shifting 10000
yards; Calico Shifting, 5000 yards: Clothing,
Groceries, Notions, Hardware, Medical Sup
, plies, School Books, etc. and long list of
1 miscellaneous articles, such as harness, plows,
Rakes, Forks, ETC., and for about $40 Wagons
required for the service to be delivered at Chi
cage, Kansas City and Sioux City. Also for
such wagons as may be required, adapted 10
the climate of the Pacific coast, with Califor-
MIA brakes, delivered at San Francisco.
Also. transportation for such of the articles,
goods and supplies that may not be contracted
Tor to De 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 to be
observed by bidders time and place of deliv-
! cry, term of contract and payment, transpOr-
l tation routes, and all other necessary instruc-
tions will be furnished upon application to the
Indian Office in Washington or Nos. 65 and 81
Wooster street, New York the Commissaries
of Subsistence, L. 5. a :. at Cheyenne, Chicago,
Leavenworth. Omaha, st. Louis, St. Paul and
San Francisco the Postmasters at Sioux City,
Ia: Yankton, S. D., Arkansas City, Caldwell,
| Topeka and Wichita, Kan, and Tuscon, AriZ.
| The right is reserved by the Government to
reject any and all bids, or any partef any bid,
and these proposals are invited under proviso
that appropriation shall be made for the
supplies by Congress.
Bids will be opened at the hour and day
above stated, and bidders are invited TO he
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.
1896 b-l5OO let. I. J. MORGAN, Commissioner,