188 ANNUAL EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 14. — Amounts available for States from Forest receipts. 



State. 



Alaska 



Arizona 



Arkansas 



California 



Colorado 



Florida 



Georgia 



Idaho 



Kansas 



Michigan 



Minnesota 



Montana 



Nebraska 



Nevada 



New Hampshire 

 New Mexico 



School and road mon- 

 eys payable to 

 States. 



Paid from 



receipts of 



fiscal year 



1916. 



$15 

 64 

 11 

 SO 

 63 

 3 



87 



5 

 S.) 



1 

 17 



35 



,023.31 



,024.72 

 , 283. 87 

 ,049.75 

 ,995.06 

 , 799. 02 

 92.50 

 ,395.79 

 4.78 



252. 55 

 ,761.01 

 ,851.72 

 , 636. 76 

 ,597. 15 



481.85 

 ,511.33 



Payable 



from 

 receipts of 

 fiscal vear 



1917. 



$16,679.61 



123,881.52 



12,772.68 



108,982.56 



76, 594. 93 



2,501.51 



105. 85 



92,470.55 



34.69 



5,761.01 



116,621.52 



2,019.07 



19, 756. 64 



1,379.34 



77, 194. 56 



State. 



North Carolina. 

 North Dakota.. 



Oklahoma 



Oregon 



Porto Rico 



South Carolina. 

 South Dakota.. 



Tennessee 



Utah 



Virginia 



Washington 



West Virginia. . 

 Wyoming 



Total. 



School and road mon- 

 eys payable to 

 States. 



Paid from 



receipts of 



fiscal vear 



1916. 



8446.04 



79.06 



985. 29 



77, 029. 23 



15,442.59 



287. 43 



48, 383. 09 



1,037.28 



37,204.90 



58.22 



37, 827. 07 



695,541.40 



Payable 



from 

 receipts of 

 fiscal year 



1917. 



$1,195.53 



17.60 



1,520.30 



98, 681. IS 



3.65 



15,959.82 



418.03 



51,704.07 



2,019.05 



49,445.31 



417.02 



35, 744. 77 



910,406.37 



Included in the above statement are additional shares of National 

 Forest receipts payable to the States of Arizona and New Mexico for 

 their school funds on account of school lands within National Forests, 

 as follows: To Arizona, paid from the receipts for the fiscal year 



1916, $31,016.12, and payable from the receipts for the fiscal year 



1917, $12,841.80; to New Mexico, paid from receipts for the fiscal year 

 1916, $10,329, and payable from the receipts for the fiscal year 1917, 

 $18,687.56. 



EXCHANGE OF LANDS. 



Field work in connection with the consolidation of State lands 

 within the National Forests of Washington progressed very satisfac- 

 torily. All the base lands have been examined and appraised, and 

 the field parties were at the close of the year at work on the selection 

 areas. A tentative basis of exchange was agreed upon between the 

 Forest Service and the State of Washington which is clearly of sub- 

 stantial advantage to all parties in interest. It is believed that the 

 work will be completed within the limit of the funds made available 

 by the appropriation act of March 4, 1915. The final consummation 

 of the exchange and consolidation of State lands agreed to with the 

 States of South Dakota, Idaho, and Montana is well under way. 

 What were previously believed to be legal obstacles were removed 

 shortly after the first of the year by an opinion rendered by the Inte- 

 rior Department, holding that it already had sufficient legal authority 

 to consummate the pending exchanges. This opinion was borne out 

 by a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States rendered 

 March 26, 1917, in the case of the State of California, plaintiff in 

 error, v. Deseret Water, Oil & Irrigation Co. Title to lands in the 

 selection areas is rapidly being transferred to the States, particularly 

 in Idaho and South Dakota. In Montana further action awaits the 

 completion of necessary surveys. 



