Contracts, 1860-1886.

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Contracts, 1860-1886.

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The collection contains photocopies of records of the U.S. War Department, Office of the Quartermaster. The contracts are between local businesses and the U.S. Army to supply feed to various army forts in New Mexico and Texas. Among the New Mexico merchants doing business with the army were Marcus Brunswick and Charles Ilfeld. The detailed contracts stipulate the amount of feed to be supplied, the quality and condition, and the delivery schedule of the feed. Four of the forty contracts in the collection name provisions other than oats, bran or hay. Only two of the contracts supply forts outside of New Mexico.

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Brunswick, Marcus.

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Charles Ilfeld Company

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