Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-04
PENITENTIARY MATTERS.
Board Awards Supply Contracts Sells
Brick to Bond Brothers, Of Espanola,

The penitentiary commissioners finish
ed their sessions yesterday afternoon.
There was a wrangle over the awarding
of the contracts on account of one Of
the bidders not bidding for immediate
delivery on some of the articles as the
advertisement required.
The Secretary of the board Hon. J.,
Francisco Chaves will remain at the
penitentiary for several days to close up
the business of the commissioners.
The old superintendent will also re-
main several days yet in order to as
sist the new officials in the ways and
discipline of the penitentiary work.
An offer from Bond Bros, Of Espanola.
to buy the brick in the kiln at the peni-
Tertiary was accepted.
Contracts to furnish supplies were
awarded as follows:
A. Walker & Co., 80 lbs Schlllings'
baking powder at soc.
A. Seligman, 116 doz Coats thread, 80
lbs fish glue at 25 cents, paint brushes,
dinner plates, saucers, outing flannel,
3 pieces 12 OF duck, 25 dOz handkerchiefs.
l doz cou%nterpanes.
- can T." W. ~ SIuNlllS
soap at so cents per doz.
Leo Hcrsch, 1000 lbs corn meal at
$1.35 cwt, 1000 lbs peas at $1.45 cwt,
$4,000 lbs flour "Sterling" at $1.72H per
cwt, 5000 lbs American corn at 81 .O4
per cwt.
A. Staab. 10 bbls coarse salt at $2?.72I
per Dbl, l Dbl corn starch at 1924 per
cwt, 5000 lbs graduated sugar at S6.06
per cwt,3 cases concentrated lye, canned
fruits, 300 cords wood at so. 62 per
cord, condition powders, button hole
silk twist, | Dbl a~sphaltum paint, 1 Dbl
whiting, glue. putty, yellow ochre,
lasting tacks and other shoe findings,
26, 000l lbs Blanca flour at $1.s212 per cwt,
6 IBIS molasses, at 40 cents per gallon;
$50 lbs chewing tobacco at 80 cents per
Id; $50 pounds smoking tobacco, Dukes
mixture, at 361a cents per Id; prunes.
evaporated, peaches and apples and
c%urrants, 1000 lbs; Lion coffee, at
$10.39 per cwt; 10 doz brooms; 3 cases
parlor matches: 1000 lbs bran: s doz
sides kip leather at 57h cents per Id:
800 yards 4-leaf pen. Jeans, at 2S15 cents;
800 yds striped cotton shirting, at 1919
cents per yard: 1000 yds canton flannel,
at z cents per yd; 300 yds heavy I'M
bleached muslin, at 81 cents; outing
flannel, percale sleeve lining, red fan
mel, 3 pieces s or duck, toweling crash,
ticking, sheeting; rs doz handkerchiefs:
go doz mems half hose, at $1.12L per
doz; 1870 lbs tea, at 3719 cents per lb;
napkins, counterpanes, BARRIERS towels;
2 doz blankets, vienna" at 1915 per
pair
Thomas f. Keleher, Albuquerque, N.
NJ, shoe findings, small amounts.
H. D. Reinken, Watrous, N. M, 6s,-
625 lbs beef, at SIPS per cwt.
Gross, Blackwell & Co., East Las We
gas, 100 TBS black pepper, grain, at 141s
cents; TO- 900 TBS beans, "Bayo," at S2.s5
per hundred; 1000 Tbs hominy at 5 cents
per pound; 5 bbls oatlakes at $5.25 per
barrel; 1000 Tbs rise at Ga cents; 450
TBS Battle AK tobacco at 30 cents per
pound; 200 TBS raisins at So cents per
pound, and all the other small grocery
items.
The rest of the articles advertised
were stricken off, and authority vested
in the superintendent to purchase the
same, when needed, in the open market.