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California Counties Receive
$157,191 from U. S. Forests
Thirty-nine counties in California which have national forests within their borders, will receive $157.191 from ,the Federal Treasury for school and road development work next vear. This sum represents 25 per cent of tlie $628,765 received during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, from ,the timber sales, grazing permits and other sources of national forest revenue.
Plumas County, which leads the list, will receive $22,925. Tuolumne County is second with $18.184, and Lassen County third with $12,726. The smallest apportionment is $76 to Orange County, within which is located a srnall corner of the Cleveland national forest.
An additional 10 per cent of national forest receipts, amotrn.ting to $62,876, will also be expended by the forest service in the construction of minor roacls and trails within the lorests in the various counties.
The allotment by counties of the r.rational forest 25 per cent fund follows: