Industrial Training - Distributing Products

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Indian School can furnish 100 harness straps with snaps at $.85 each.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Indian School can supply a suit for Komalta at the same price they furnished for the Cheyennes.

Richard Henry Pratt provides an estimate for new cases for an exhibit at the Omaha Exposition.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs of the need for a new heavy express wagon in order to haul freight. As a result, he requests authority to purchase materials to build a new wagon as well as materials for making spring wagons and other items for agency and Indian Service Schools.

Richard Henry Pratt returns an authority authorizing the Perris Indian School to order 2,000 blank reports to be printed by the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that he has instructed the Printing Department to move forward with the order without waiting for the Superintendent of the Perris Indian School.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Indian School can produce five buck boards at a cost of $57 each delivered to the New York Warehouse.

Richard Henry Pratt notifies the Office of Indian Affairs that he has exhausted his funds for freight shipping on supplies and shipments and requests an additional $200 for the remainder of the fiscal year.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay freight costs to send goods manufactured at Carlisle to Indian School to agencies as well as the freight costs for goods purchased for the school not covered by transportation contracts.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to cover the amount exceeded in shipping vehicles manufactured at the Carlisle Indian School to various agencies.

Alfred J. Standing inquires of the Office of Indian Affairs the price the Carlisle Indian School should invoice for supplying the Chicago warehouse 140 sets of double harness with collars to be distributed to various agencies and schools in the Indian Service.

Richard Henry Pratt follows up on his letter of August 22, 1900 requesting to know the price at which the Carlisle Indian School should invoice for harness produced by the school for the Indian Service.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase on the open market special materials needed for Office of Indian Affairs orders for manufacturing wagons and harness.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the number of spring wagons, carriages, and harnesses for Indian Agencies has exceeded estimates and therefore there is a need to replenish supplies to produce these items.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that a farm wagon that was built at the Carlisle Indian School needs to be replaced. In addition, the new school farm requires two additional wagons. As a result, Pratt requests authority to purchase materials necessary for the for the manufacture of the farm wagons in addition to those…

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay for freight shipping of articles produced by the industrial department to departmental agencies as well as freight on supplies purchased by the Carlisle Indian School not covered by transportation contracts.

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs by providing quotes and photographs of the different styles of vehicles and harness produced at the Carlisle Indian School.

W. B. Beitzel informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Indian School has delivered five buckboard wagons to the Indian Warehouse in New York at $57 each. Beitzel includes a photograph of a buckboard.

Richard Henry Pratt provides a quote on a three-seat covered wagon, neck, yoke and pole, and all equipment for the Riverside Boarding School. Pratt also includes a photograph for a Concord spring wagon.

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the criticism regarding wagons manufactured at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt states that Cochran is known to misuse wagons causing them to breakdown quickly and requests that he ship the broken wagon back so it can be examined.

W. A. Jones writes in a note…

Richard Henry Pratt requests that the Office of Indian Affairs obtain information related to R. A. Cochran's, Superintendent of the Rice Station Indian School, order of a wagon. 

Edgar A. Allen informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Indian School has $34,755.84 on credit with the Assistant Treasurer in New York along with sale of manufactured goods and money with Commissioner of Indian Affairs for a total balance of $40,584.28. As a result, Allen renews his request for authorization to spend an…

Edgar A. Allen forwards the proposals of the Carlisle Indian School to furnish tinware to the Office of Indian Affairs. Allen notes that the tinware produced by the school is superior to manufactured goods as it is handmade and that he has also sent samples to the office.

Richard Henry Pratt requests to know the balance in the U.S. Treasury to the credit of the Carlisle Indian School appropriation for the 1904 fiscal year.

William A. Mercer responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding a request from C. H. Asbury, Superintendent of the Carson Indian School, to purchase a wagonette and surrey and a set of double driving harness for the surrey from the Carlisle Indian School. Mercer states that the letter was not enclosed but provides images of vehicles…

William A. Mercer provides the Office of Indian Affairs with information on a surrey the Carlisle Indian School can provide for the Grand Junction School. Included is a photograph along with an enclosure from a surrey catalog.