St. Paul daily globe., 1893-04-30
Proposals For Indian Supplies aud
TFansDOrtatiOn.

IMPAIRMENT OF THE INTERIOR, OF
~ fee of Indian Affairs, Washington, April
10. 1S93.-Sealed proposals. Endorsed Pro
posals for Beef, (bids for Beef must be sub
mitted in separate envelopes), Bacon, Flour,
Clothing, or Transportation, etc., Gas the case
may bel, and directed to the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, Nos. IS and 67 Wooster street.
New York. will be received until l p. m. of
Tuesday, May Is, 1893, for furnishing for the
Indian service about $4,000 pounds Bacon
pounds net Beef, $4,000 pounds Beans 10000
pounds Baking Powder, 100000 pounds
Corn, 4s5,000 pounds Coffee, 100000 pounds
Flour, 115.O00 pounds Feed, $4,000 pounds
Hard Bread, $4,000 pounds Hominy, 10000
pounds Lard. GAO barrels Mess Pork, $4,000
pounds Rolled Oats, 100000 pounds Oats, S.,
900 pounds Rice 22,0O0 pounds Tea, $4,000
pounds Coarse Salt, $4,000 pounds Fine Salt,
320 900 pounds Soap, 100000 pounds Sugar,
and 10000 pounds Wheat.
Also. Blankets. Woolen and Cotton Goods
consisting in part of Ticking, 1900 yards;
Standard Calico, 10000 yards; Drilling, 1900
yards; Duck, free from all sizing, $4,000
yards; DenimS, 13, 600 yards; Gingham, 100000
yards; Kentucky Jeans, 10000 yards; Cheviot
2S GOO yards: Brown Sheeting, go, 900 Yards;
BIeached Sheeting, $4,000 yards: Hickory
Shirting, 1900 yards Calico Shirting, 5000
yards): Clothing, Groceries, Notions Hard
ware, 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 serv-
ice, to be delivered at Chicago Kansas City,
and Sioux City. Also fer such Wagons as
may be required. adapted to the climate of
the Pacific Coast, with California brakes, de-
Gvered at San Francisco
Also, transportation for such of the articles.
goods and supplies that may not be contract
ed for to be delivered at the Agencies.
BIDS MUST BE MADE OUT ON GOVERNMENT
BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kinds and duanti-
ties of subsistence supplies required for each
Agency and School, and the kinds and guam
titles in gross of all other goods and articles,
together with blank proposals, conditions TO
be observed by bidders, time and place of de-
livery, terms OF contract and payment trans
portation routes and all other necessary in
structions will DE furnished upon application
to the Indian Office i'll Washington, or Nos.
65 and 67 Wooster street, New York; the Com
missaIies of Subsistence, I. S A. at Chey-
enne, Chicago, Leayenworth, Omaha, Saint
Louis. Saint Paul. and San Francisco; 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 Government to
bid, and these proposals are invited under
proviso that appropriations shall be made for
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, the National Park Bank OF n. Y,
the First National Bank of Lander, Wyo., or
the First National Bank of San Francisco
Cal, for at least five per cent. of the amount
of the proposal: