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to $11,300, and were made to Maine, Connecticut, New York, New 

 Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Louisi- 

 ana, and Idaho. 



The total allotments to the States, including emergency allotments, 

 were as follows : 



Cooperative expenditures in fire protection under the Weeks law, fiscal 



year 1923. 



state. 



Federal. 



State. 



Total. 



Maine 



New Hampshire , 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



Maryland 



Virginia 



West Virginia 



N orth Carolina 



Tennessee 



Louisiana 



Texas 



Ohio 



Michigan 



Wisconsin 



Minnesota 



South Dakota 



Montana 



Idaho 



Washington 



Oregon 



California 



Administration and inspection 



Total 



$25, 

 6, 

 4, 

 8, 



4, 

 24, 



5, 

 24, 



4, 

 17, 

 10, 

 12, 



9, 

 21, 

 14, 



1, 

 22, 

 13, 

 24, 



13, 

 29, 

 24, 

 24, 

 22, 

 27, 



183.82 

 705. 52 

 200.00 

 399. 82 

 455. 77 

 025. 00 

 368. 26 

 775. 00 

 000. 00 

 050. 00 

 663. 40 

 500.00 

 306.88 

 981.01 

 750. 00 

 000. 00 

 050. 00 

 285. 92 

 879. 97 

 000.00 

 100.00 

 722. 08 

 037. 58 

 000. 00 

 000.00 

 248.32 

 522. 80 



$136, 181. 56 



31,178.85 



9, 007. 55 



80. 522. 42 

 7,984.31 



23, 577. 78 



162, 706. 28 



54, 742. 86 



488,783.50 



11, 652. 04 



17, 663. 41 



20, 036. 82 



14, 272. 96 



9,981.01 



43, 668. 49 



14. 047. 43 

 9, 144. 25 



138, 502. 03 

 19, 161. 51 



244, 752. 13 

 5, 445. 00 

 16,373.31 

 93, 584. 71 

 78, 626. 93 

 42, 920. 62 

 51,912.89 



$161,365.38 

 37, 884. 37 

 13, 207. 55 

 88,922.24 

 8, 440. 08 

 27, 602. 78 



187, 074. 54 

 60, 517. 86 



512,783.50 

 15, 702. 04 

 35, 326. 81 

 30, 536. 82 

 26, 579. 84 

 19, 962. 02 

 65,418.49 

 28, 047. 43 

 10, 194. 25 



160,787.95 

 33,041.48 



268,752.13 



5, 545. 00 



30, 095. 39 



122, 622. 29 



102, 626. 93 

 66,920.62 

 74, 161. 21 

 27,522.80 



395,211.15 



1,826,430.65 



2,221,641.80 



Unexpended balance. $4,788.8-5. 

 Appropriation, $400,000. 



With protection against forest fires in the formative stage or 

 entirely absent throughout a portion of the country, complete figures 

 on the losses sustained are impossible to secure. Nevertheless, 

 through the assistance of States where protective systems are es- 

 tablished and of interested cooperators in other States, the Forest 

 Service has been securing reports on forest-fire losses during the 

 past seven years. These reports indicate an average for this period 

 of 36,100 fires annually, with 7,244,000 acres of forest land burned 

 over and immediate property losses of $16,463,000. The causes of 

 fire were: Campers and smokers, 15.5 per cent; railroads, 14.6; in- 

 cendiarism, 14.1 ; brush burning, 13.5 ; lightning, 8.7 ; lumbering, 5.7 ; 

 miscellaneous, 6.6; and unknown, 21.3. The estimated number of 

 fires in 1922 was 51,900, or 44 per cent more than the average, but 

 they burned over only 13 per cent more forest land and the property 

 loss showed practically no increase. 



The indicated number of fires in 1922, with the damage caused 

 and the forest land burned over, was as shown below. On account 

 of the varying character and completeness of the data on the basis 

 of which the totals are computed, however, regional comparisons 

 involve elements of uncertainty. 

 78007— AGR 1923 21 



