National Forest Resources Bring in Over $5,000,000

Receipts from national forest resources during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, totaled $5,251,903, according to the final tabulation made by the United States Department of Agriculture.

This amount is $84,000 less than the receipts for the previous fiscal year, but is $8'{0,000 larger than the average annual receipts of the preceding fir'e years.

Sales of timber and livestock grazing permits were responsible for most of the money received, $3,036,395 having been paid for timber and $1,915,561 for grazing permits.. Permits for the use of national forest lands for summer homes and otl-rer forms of special ttse, including rvater power, brought in $299,946.

Under authority of the acts of Congress governing receipts {rom national forest resources the sum of $1,346,353 will be paid to the States containing national forest land for the use of the school and road funds of the counties in which such land is situated. In addition, the sum of $520'739 derived from forest receipts will be expended by the Forest Service in building roads and trails within the forest areas. Other road funds are provided by special appropriations.

- With the exception of these sums, amounting in qlt -t" $1,867,@2, the bilance of the receipts-$3,384,81l-will be paid into the general fund of the United States Treasurv. - The amounis the various States will receive for county road and school funds are calculated on the basis of onefourth of the total receipts from national forest resources rvithin each separate Staie. The funds for roads and trails within the forests are computed on a one-tenth basis' almost twice as large thus indicating a corfrom Alaska's tlo na-

Twenty-eight States and Alaska shared in the distribution of the two funds. Including both the sums to be spent on national forest roads and trails and the sums payable to the various counties for roads and schools, Clliloinia u'ill receive $434,889, Oregon $247,72l,Idaho $184.277, Arizona $175,014, Colorado $L25,80, Washington $124,ffi, Montana $115,901, Wyoming $99,634, Utah $81,465, Nerv Mexico W,O77, Nevada $35,653, and South Dakota $34,208.

Arkansas 'rvill receive $?3,@2, Virginia $13,t6, North Carolina $12,990, New Hampshire $12,732, Minnesota $8'726, Florida $8,311, Tennessee $4,859, Nebraska $3,912' Georgia $3,605, Oklahoma $2,655, West Virginia $l,D-Z, tr{aini $1,010, South Carolina $569, Pennsylvania $350, Alabama $248, and.Michigan $41.

Alaska rvill receive 542.7n. a sum as the Territory received last year, responding increase in timber sales tional forests.

WATCH IT uIORK

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