Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — GIVEN A BIG CONTRACT. [ARTICLE]

GIVEN A BIG CONTRACT.

Swift £ Co., of Chicago to Karnlik Beef for Soldier* and Cuban Keconcen trad os. Washington, June 30. —Commissary General Eagan, of the army, has awarded to Swift & Co., of Chicago, a contract for supplying the troops in Cuba with refrigerated' beef in such quantities and at such places as may be required. The contract is a big one and involves the shipment to that country of large cargoes of dressed meat to be used not alone for the soldiers but also for feeding the reeoncentrudos and the Cuban troops. The government guarantees the contract to last for not less than three months and the beef is to be furnished so that it will be perfectly good and tit for use 72 hours after its delivery. There were a large number of proposals from firms which desired to obtain the contract aud considerable competition was shown in the bids. It is impossible at this time to say just how much beef will be required, but it is safe to assume that before the three months are up it will amount to over 100,000 pounds a day. This is on the basis of 100,000 men who will be furnished with a pound aud a quarter of beef per day.