Special to the Herald
Department of the Interior
Office of Indian Affairs,
June 3, 1879
Sir: At a recent awarding of contracts for supplies for the Indian service, no proposals to furnish your agency with 20,000 pounds of oats and 1,500 pounds of salt were received, and now N.W. Wells has made a proposition to deliver to your agency said quantities of oats and salt at $8.35 and $9.90 per 100 pounds respectively, but I deem the prices excessive, and therefore wish you to ascertain if lower rates cannot be obtained.
Very respectfully,
E. A. HAYT,
Commissioner
N.C. MEEKER
Indian Agent, White River Agency, Colo.
Department of the Interior
Office of Indian Affairs,
June 3, 1879
Sir: In reply to your request contained in your letter dated the 19th ultimo, you are advised that the authorities communicated to you in office letters of the 6th of July and 8th of August last require no consolidation or modification [to] cover the expenditures made by [you].
Very respectfully,
E. A. HAYT,
Commissioner
N.C. MEEKER
Indian Agent, White River Agency, Colo.
Sir: I wish you would have forwarded to this agency, at once, 10,000 pounds grain, [half] oats and half corn. We are working all the teams hard, at moving old agency buildings, at plowing, lumbering, &c., and the supply of grain on hand, is getting low. I have asked for a total 20,000 pounds and we should have half right away. Mr. N.W. Wells can bring it immediately, I judge, for he has a train now on the way, the rivers being ferried.
I am writing at new location; the office is not yet done, but will be in a few days; therefore I cannot copy this.
Respectfully,
N. C. MEEKER, Indian Agent.
HON. E. A. HAYT, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C.