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36 612, June 25, 1872. WERBSIKI, Mr. Alexander Werbiski, Brownsville, Texas.

Sir:

        Your letter of June 14, has been received, and the following report in the case will explain to you, why your bid for Hay was not accepted:
                                                                                  Office of Depot Quartermaster,
                                                                                  San Antonio, Texas, June 25, 1872.

Respectfully returned to the Chief Quartermaster of the Department.

        The bids received for supplying the post of Fort Brown, Tex., with hay, for the fiscal year, commencing July 1, 1872, were for the following grades or kind of hay, viz: (1st) Northern or Western at from $49. 93/100 to $75.  00/100 p. ton;  (2nd.) Mesquit at $39. 75/100 p. ton and (3rd.) Prairie or "Saca Hinsta" at from $24. 00.100 to $ 34. 00/100 p. ton.
         Mr. Werbiski put in his bid at $32.  00/100 and did not describe any particular grade.  His bid, however, was understood from the proposed, and from his failure to the kind of hay, he offered, to be for the lowest grade, as he would naturally, in the absence of any obligation, contained in his bid, to the contrary, elect and insist upon putting in the cheapest grade: - such was the course, pursued last year, by the Contractor, and the result was, that the hay presented, was found unsuitable in kind by the Receiving Board, and the Government, at great expense, obtained most of the supply from the New Orleans market.
           Therefore, with the experience of the past in view, the bids for the lowest grades of hay were not accepted.
            The Northern or Western hay being higher in price, and but little, if any, superior to the Mesquit hay, the bids for that were likewise not accepted, and the offer of Mr. Chamberlain for Mesquit hay in bales, was accepted.  Had it been deemed for the interests of the service, to accept Prairie or Saca Hinsta, Mr. Werbiski's offer could not have been accepted.
                                                                 (Sgd) Benj. C. Card
                                                                           A. Q. M., Depot Quartermaster.
                                      Very respectfully
                                       Your obdt. servant
                              (Sgd)  C. C. Augur
                                         Brigadier General, U. S. A.

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