The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-25
PROPOSALS for Leasing the Surplus

PROPOSALS for Leasing the Surplus
Grazing Lands on the Kiowa and Com
anche and Wichita Reservations:-Unite
States Indian Service, Kiowa and Com
anche and Wichita Agency, Anadarko,
Oklahoma, January 49, 1898.
photographic address, Anadarko, Okla
homa, via Chickasha, l. To
Sealed proposals for grazing horses or
cattle (but not sheep or hogs on the sur
plus lands of thes'Kiowa and Comanche
and Wichita reservations, Oklahoma, en-
dorsed, Proposals for leasing trlbal Iahas
for grazing purposes, and addressed 10
the Acting Agent of the Kiowa and COM
anche Agency, Anadarko, Oklahoma, VIII
be received at this Office until CLOCK
D. M, on the 18th day of February, 1898.
The pastures on the Kiowa and Com
anche reservation will be leased for the
period of three years from April !, 1898,
and the pastures on the Wichita reserva-
ton will be leased for one year from April
/ 1898. No bid for a 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 applcallon
to this office. A few OF the pastures on
each reservatio are unsurveyed. THESE
will be surveyed as early as practicable,
and the lessee viii be required TO pay up
on the actual number Of acres found TO
be embraced in each, as shown by the
survey. Certain of the pastures on both
reservations are also unfenced. Inc
lessees of unfenced pastures Will be re-
duired without unnecessary delay 10
fence the same with a substantial, cattle
proof, wire fence; all fences and other
improvements shall revert to the Indians
and become their absolute property at the
expira ton 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
! leased
! than s cents per acre for the first year
and ten cents per acre for each OF 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 winch ne
! will pay and the maximum hun I5 oL
! horses or cattle he proposes TO hold upon
/ the lands at any one time, and 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 ii be practicable to compare the BIDS
/ on any giVenpasture.
! Tbe rent must be paid in two equal
| semi-annual payments, In advance name
| ~ on April list and October LIST of each
Each lessee will be required to furnish
| security in an amount equal TO the de-
| ferred pavrnents. for the faithful per-
| formance of the conditions of the lease,
! through some acceptable security or guar
! antv company. Personal bonds viii not
be accepted
| posed to award the grazing privileges or
! each particular pasture to the bidder pro-
1 posing 10 pay the highest price therefor;
but the right is hereby reserved 20 re-
iect anv and all bids, if deemed for the
| hest interest Of the Indians; and the
| leases executed hereunder Will be subject
| to the approval of the secretary or the
/ interior. ..s -,
/ a certified check or draft upon some l. ;
! depository or solvent national panH. IN
the vicinity Of the bidder : place OF resi-
| dence. made payable 10 the order or the
| C,o-nu,issioner Of Indian Affairs, for at
/ laast. < rer ceutum of the entire amount or
the proposal. which check or craft shal4
be forfeited TO the United states loI I.le
,1se and benefit of the kiowa, Comanche.
/ Apache and Wichita Indians, in case any
bidder receiving ar award shan lam 70
enter into the prescribed lease Tor the
lands hid upon. and TO secure sGis't,,e
bord for the faithful performance Of his
part Of the contract; otherwise 10 De fe-
( turned 10 he bidder.
I Proposals not conforming 70 the re-
. I Cuirenents Of this advertisement VIII no'
! b.. considered. FRANK =. BALDWIN.
| Cant L. : A Acting Indian Agent
Kiowa and Comsncae Agency. Ana
darko Oklahoma as-I-t
PROPOSALS Cor Erection o. School
Buildings. L. :. Indian Service. hloWa
! Agency. Auadarko, Q. T. January IL lNsS
I Sealed proposals. endorsed. Propose :
for Erection OF School Buildings, and ad-
/ dressed 70 the undersigned at AnaGaTko
/ okla borna, VIII be received al this agency
/ until two o'clock p. m. Of February =
1SaS for furnishing the necessary mate
| rials and labor required n the Corstruc-
/ fio- and completion OF the following build
| ings viz.
one stone mess hall a Z the Fort sill IN
dian boarding school: one brick dormlJorN
| and one frame mess hail ~ the Riverside
I s-b.,oI. and one stone GormiFoTy. Ont
stone mess hall and one frame employees
| quarters at the Rainy Mountain school
! an in strict acCOrdance with plans anc
Ssa,1--a,,ffiootior,s which may be examined a
the Indian Office Washington. =. c. th'
! offices % the Journal Of Kansas city
/ Missouri. the Eagle" Of Wichita Kan
| - the Genital of Topeka. Kansas
~ Courier" OK Winfield. Kansas. tbs
Rl.ilsers' and Traders, Exchange Omaha
Nebraska. and the L. 5. Indian Ware.
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