The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-04
FOR EXCHANGE.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

MISCELLAN EOOO.
PROPOSaf.S for leasing the Surplus
Grazing Lands on the Kiowa and Com,
anche and Wichita Reservations:-United
States Indian Service, Kiowa and Com
anche and Wichita Agency, Anadarko,
Oklahoma, January 10, 1898.
photographic address, Anadarko, Okla-
homa, via Chickasha, I. IT,
Sealed proposals for grazing horses or
cattle (but not sheep or hogs on the sur
plus lands of the Kiowa and Comanche
and Wichita reservations, Oklahoma, en-
dorsed, Proposals for leasing tribal lands
for grazing purposes" and addressed 10
the Acting Agent of the Kiowa and Com,
anche Agency, Anadarko, Oklahoma, Will
be received al this office until o CLOCK
p. 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 l, 1885,
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 application
to this office. A few of the pastures on
each reservation are unSurVeyed- 1heSe
will be surveyed as early as practlcaple'
and the lessee will 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 The
Iessees of unfenced pastures will be re-
uured, 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
expiratio 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 for less
than cents per acre for the first year
and ten cents per acre for eacn OF the
second and third years.
The bidder must clearly designate the
pasture on which the bid is made, CIV
ing the estimated number or acres there-
in the Drice per acre per annum which he
viii pay and the maximum number OF
horses or cattle he proposes to hold upon
the lands at any one Tune 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 it be practicable to compare the DldS
on any giVenpasture.
saui-annual payments, in advance, name
| ". on April 1st and October lst OF each
year.
| security in an amount equal to the de-
| ferred payments, for the faithful per-
! fnrmance of the conditions of the lease,
! through some acceptable security or guar.
! anty company. Personal bonds will not
| everything being satisfactory, 1t is pro.
/ posed TO award the grazing privileges OF
! each particular pasture 10 the bidder pro-
! posiny to pay the highest price therefor;
| but the right is hereby reserved to re-
/ iect any and all bids, if deemed for the
! host interest of the Indians, and the
! leases executed hereunder will be subject
! 10 the approval of the secretary of the
] interior ., =,
! Each proposal must be accompanied by
| q certified check or draft upon some I. S.
! depository or solvent national bank, in
/ tho vicinity of the bidders place of resi-
! dance made payable to the order OF the
! commissioner OF Indian Affairs, for at
/ least : uer centum of the entire amount OF
! tba nroposal, which check or draft shall
/ he forfeited to the United States for the
/ ,isa and benefit of the Kiowa, Comanche.
! Anarhe and Wichita Indians, in case any
/ bidder receiving an award shall fail TO
enter into the prescribed lease for the
! lands bid upon. and to secure suitable
! bond for the faithful performance of his
| mart of the contract; otherwise to be re-
| turned to the bidder
! ProDosals not conforming to the re-
| ouirements of this advertisement will not
/ he considered FRANK D. BALDWIN,
/ cant. L. s A. Acting Indian Agent,
| Liowa and Comanche Agency, Ana
darko Oklahoma. 5S-Et