The Florence tribune., 1900-03-10

E1ROPUSALS FOR GRAZING PRIYI- I LEGRS ON THE " WHITE MOUNTAIN OR SAN CARLOS INDIAN RESERVATION, | ARIZONA. United States Indian Service, San Carlos Agency, Arizona. February 16 I900 Sealed Proposals for grazing horses or cattle lbuA not sheep or hogs) on the surplus lands of the White Mountain or San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona. en- dorsed Proposal for grazing privilege on the Sau Carlos Reservation" and addressed to the Acting U. s. Indian Agent of the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, will be received at this office until lo:o 2o'clock p. m. on the 18th day ot March, lyCO. 1t is proposed to grant informal permits covering the grazing privileges of said reservation to the party or parties proposing to pay the highest price per head per annum for the period of different period will be accepted or con sidered. For the information of bidders it Is stated that the ranges of the reservation are unfenced. So far as practicable, given portion of the reservation, sufficient for the pasturage of his stock, will be assigned to each successful bidder, and each permittee will be expected to eonfine his stock to the portion of the reservation assigned him; but the Government will assume no respons- ibility in the matter of preventing the stray ing Of stock from range to range. There are two separate ranges or grazing districts on the reservation, separated by natural boundaries; one embraces an estimated area of about 500,000 acres and the other about SO0.000 acres. The grazing permits
  scribed by the Commissioner of Indian Af- fairs. and will be based upon the number of head of cattle or horses the bidder proposes tc graze on the reservation and not upon the acreage assigned to each permittee. Any further information concerning the matter will be furnished upon application to this office. Each bidder must state wheth- CT he proposes to graze horses or cattle, the number he proposes to greZe, and the price per head per anuum which he will pay (calves at their mothers aide not to be counted), and give the location of his ranch and his post-otfice address. In the considera- tion of bids, horses and cattle will be re- garded as upon equal basis. An adjust ment will be required on the lst of April, of each year of the term and permittees will be required to enter into Q supplemental contract upon the same terms and oondi- tions as the original contract covering any additions of stock that he may have brought young stock that have approximately at tained the age of one year during the pre- ceding twelve months. The grazing tax must be paid In two semi-annual install ments in advance, to-wit: On April lst and October lst, of each year; each permittee will be required to furnish bond with two or more good and sufficient sureties in an amount equal to the deferred payments under his permit. An actual count of the number of head of stock brought upon the reservation will be required of each per- 1 mittee; If 1t should be discovered upon in- ] spection and count. that the number and count certified to is incorrect, the per- mittee will be held to the payment of such surplus, and such surplus of stock will be subject to removal from the reservation, in the discretion of the U. s. Indian Agent, in case he should deem such course ex- pedient, Everything being satisfactory. it | Is proposed to award the grazing privileges to the party or parties proposing to pay the
 highest price per head per annum; but the right is hereby reserved to reject any or all | bids. or any part of bid, without assign peRt of cause. should the Secretary of the
 Interior deem such a cause advisable; and the permits executed hereunder will be sub. iect to the approval of the Secretary of the l Interior. Each proposal must be accom-. panied by a certified check or draft upon some United States depository or solvent national bank, in the vicinity of the bidders place of residence, made payable to the order Of the Commissioner of Indian Af- fairs, for at least 10 per centum of the entire amount of the proposal for the three years
 which check or draft will be forfeited to the United States for the use and benefit of the Indians occupying the San Carlos Reserya-