Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-05-05
PENITENTIARY SUPPLIES.
Contracts Let by Board Of Commissioners
Successful Bidders and Prices.

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The following are the successful bid
ders for the more important articles
needed at the penitentiary for the en-
suing six months. The list of articles
given does not include all that were con.
tracted for, only the larger items.
II. d. Reinken, Watrous, IS, 6s5 pounds
fresh beef, $6.6S per hundred.
Gross, Blackwell & Company, Las We
gas: $1,000 pounds flour, $2.35 per hun
dred; 1000 pounds hominy, 2 cents per
pound; 6 barrels oatflakes, $5.7 per
barrel; Is barrels coarse salt, $3.50 per
barrel; $50 pounds smoking tobacco, 20
cents per pound; 6 cases tomatoes, 1913 5
per case; 40 boxes soap, 1926 per box;
25 tons upland hay, $40 per ton; 200
gallons molasses, IS cents per gallon.
A Staab, Santa Fe: 10000 pounds
Mexican beans, $40 9 per hundred; 1000
pounds rice, $5.97I per hundred; 1000
pounds white corn meal, $1.29 per hun
dred; 100 pounds black pepper, 11H
cents per pound; 5000 pounds %granulated
sugar, $500 per hundred; 800 pounds
chewing tobacco, $21.6O per hundred;
400 pounds evaporated peaches, 6A
cents per pound, 400 pounds e%vaporated
apples, 615 cents per pound; 200 pounds
dried currants, 81 cents per pound; 8
dozen brooms, $3.50 per dozen; 400
cords wood, 49, "a per cord; 1000 yards
canton flannel, So cents per yard; $50
yards u%nbleachcd muslin, 81 cents per
yard; so dozen mems half-hose, 80 cents
per dozen.
Rio Arriba Coal company, Monero,
400 tons screened lump coal, $3.05 per
ton.
Brown Il Manzanares company, Las
Vegas: 10000 pounds oats, $1.26 per
hundred; 100 dozen spools cotton thread,
AZ cents per dozen.
Leo Hersch, Santa Fe: 1000 pounds
bran, 80 cents per hundred; 5000 pounds
corn, 81 per hundred.
A. Seligman, Santa Fe: 1 dozen stable
brooms, 50: $50 feet &-inch rubber hose,
wired, 1S cents per foot; 5 dozen long
handled shovels, 50 per dozen; 3 dozen
galvanized iron slop pals, 1874 per dozen;
800 feet A-inch iron pipe, 8 cents per
foot; 500 feet 1-inch iron pipe, 0 cents
per foot; 500 feet 14-inch iron pipe, ~
cents per foot; 6 rolls heavy oak tanned
sole leather, 391a cents per pound; 8
dozen sides kip leather, 714 cents per
pound; 1 dozen sides kip leather, 6s cents
per pound; 1000 yards prison stripe, 90
cents per yard; 800 yards cotton shirt
ing, 1871 cents per yard; 200 yards citi-
zens' cloth, SIX cents per yard; 8 pieces
black and brown coat lining, IA cents
per yard; 3 pieces red flannel, IS cents
per yard; $50 yards toweling, II cents
per yard; 200 yards ticking, liz cents
per yard; 4 dozen napkins, $3.50 per
6 dozen blankets, $2.s7h per
pair.
Santa Fe Mercantile company: u
dozen pairs heavy rubber hip boots,
per pair; x dozen heavy rubber
knee boots. $500 per pair; $50 yards
flannel, 8 cents per yard; 8 pieces
lining, IL cents per yard; 4 pieces
Bingham, 81 cents per yard; ? pieces 12-
ounce duck, Is cents per yard; 2 pieces
s-ounce duck, 81 cents per yard; / bolt
cloth, $1.1O per yard; / piece
9-4 sheeting, II cents per yard; so dozen
handkerchiefs, rs cents per dozen; n
dozen counterpanes, 1925; 500 yards
"a cents per yard; $50 pounds
green tea, SO cents per pound.
The coal contract was awarded to the
Monero Coal company, as the New MEX
IcAN is informed, upon the say so Of
superintendent Bergman who, at a
previous letting Of bids informed the
board that 1t was superior to Cerrillos
coal.
The wood contract at $2.74 per cord
was awarded to A. Staab at a high
figure. The New MEXICAN Is informed
that very good wood is being furnished
the government Indian school at 81. ~
per cord. The Staab bid was not very
explicit and the character of wood to be
depends upon the receiving
officers opinion.
Upon the whole the prices paid for
supplies at this bidding are quite rea-
,onable, with the exception Of the wood,
which It is said, o be purchased in
,pcn market at $3.50 per cord.