The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-29

PROPOSALS for Leasing the Surplus
Grazing Lands on the Kiowa and Com
anche and Wichita Reservations:-Unit
States Indian Service, Kiowa ana com
anche and Wichita Agency, Anadarko'
Oklahoma, January 19, 1898.
photographic address, Anadarko, Okla
homa, via Chickasha, l. tt
Sealed proposals for grazing horses or
cattle (but not sheep or hogs on the sur
plus lands of the Kiowa and Comanche
and Wichita reservat tons. Oklahoma, en-
dorsed, Proposals for leasing tribal LANDS
for grazing purposes. and addressed 20
the Acting Agent of the Kfowa and COM
anche Agency, Anadarko. Oklahoma, will
be received at this Office until o CLOCK
o. m, on the 10Th day of February, 1S98.
The pastures on the Kiowa and Com
anche reservation viii be leased for the
period of three years from April !, 1875,
and the pastures on the Wichita reserva-
ton will be leased for one year from April
l. 1898. Nc bid for q different period on
either reservation will be received or con-
sidered.
For the information of bidders, I will
state that the description of the pastures,
the location and estimated number OF
acres in each. and all other necessary in
formation will be furnished on application
TO this office. A few of the pastures on
each reservation are unsurveyed. Inese
will be surveyed as early as pracucaDIe,
and the lessee will be required to pay up
on the actual number Of acres found 10
be embraced in each, as shown by the
survey. certain Oh the pastures oli Jul
reservations are also unfenced The
| leSsees of unfenced pastures wili be re-
quired, without unnecessary delay, TO
fence the same with substantial. cattle
proof. wire fence; all fences and other
| improvements shall revert TO the Indians
and become their absolute property at the
expiration Of the leases
No pasture on the Kiowa and Comanche
reservation that is already under fence
will be leased for less than ten cents per
acre, per annum; and no unfenced pasture
on said reservation viii be leased Tor less
than cents per acre for the first year
and ten cents per acre for each or the
| second and third years.
The bidder must clearly designate the
pasture on which the bid is made, CIV
! ing the estimated number of acres mere
| in the price per acre per annum which he
will pay, and the maximum number or
horses or cattle he proposes to hold upon
the lands at any one time; ana IN case
more than one pasture is bid upon, sep
arate bids must be made upon each. Only
by a strict adherence to this instruction
will il be practicable to compare the bids
| on any giyenpasture.
The rent must be paid in two equal
| semi-annual payments. in advance, name
! ~. on April LIST and october LIST of each
year -
security in an amount equal to the de-
ferred PAYMENTS. for the faithful per-
! Torrance of the conditions of the lease,
through some acceptable security or guar
/ be accepted
Everything being satisfactory. it is pro-
| posed to award the grazing privileges or
each particular pasture to the bidder pro-
posing TO pay the highest price therefor;
hut the right is hereby reserved to re-
iect any and all bids, if deemed for the
! leases executed hereunder will be subject
to the approval of the secretary of the
! interior.
! - =
| deDository or solvent national bank, IN
| the vicinity of tho bidders place of resi-
! dence made payable TO the order or the
I Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for at
/ least ) per centUm of the entire amount of
! the proposal which check or draft shall
/ be forfeited TO the United states Tor the
use and benefit of the kfowa. Coma nche,
! ADach and Wichita Indians, IN case any
( bidder receiving an award shall fail to
I enter into the prescribed lease for the
lands bid upon and 70 secure a sataple
bond for the faithful performance of his
! part of the contract; otherwise 10 De re-
turned to the bidder.
! Proposals not conforming TO the re-
| ouirements of this advertisement will not
/ he considered. FRANK D. BALDWIN.
Cant. L. S A. Acting Indian Agent.
/ Kiowa and Comanche Agency, Ana
darko, Oklahoma 5s-lZt
PROPOSALS for Erection of School
| Puildings L. s. Indian Service, kiowa
| Agency. AnadarkO, Q. T. January q. 1855
/ for Erection of School Buildings and ad-
| dressed to the undersigned at Auadarko,
/ oklahoma. will be received at this agency
/ until two O'Clock p NJ, of February D
1SqS Tor furnishing the necessary mate
| rials and labor required in the construc-
ton and completion of the following build
ings. viz:
| one stone mess hall at the Fort Sill In
| dian boarding school: one brick dormltory
! and one frame mess hall at the Riverside
| school: and one stone dormitory, one
! stone mess hall and one frame employees
quarters at the Rainy Mountain school
an i'm strict accordance with plans anC
| Specifications which may be examined al
the Indian Office, Washington, D. c.. tn,
offices of the Journal Of Kansas City
Missouri the Eagle OF Wichita, Kan
sas the Capital" Of Topeka, Kansas
/ tie Courier" of Winfield, Kansas. the
RuiIders' and Traders Exchange. Omaha
Nebraska. and the L. 5 Indian Ware
house. 1902 State St, Chicago. Illinois, anc
at this agency
For any additional information apply
| 20 Can't Frank D. Baldwin, Acting I. S
I Indian Agent 4-Z0-ztl
FOR TRADE.
FOR TRADE-A good improved farm II
oklahoma with forty acres of wheat