464 



ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



This total exponditure of $5,530,219.50 pair! the cost of adminis- 

 tering, protecting, and inijiroving the national forests and also of 

 promoting the practice of forestry generally throughout the United 

 States. The latter was accomplished through field and laboratory 

 investigations, cooperation with States and private owners, and 

 through activities for the diffusion of the knowledge reaped by in- 

 vestigations. Prorating among the several lines of work such gen- 

 eral expenses as are incurred on behalf of the work of the Forest 

 Service as a Avhole, and grouping the cost of these various lines 

 according to the objects sought, the total expenditure may be sub- 

 divided as follows: 



Administration and protection of the national forests $4,718,668.06 



Permanent improvements, national forests 499,158.55 



Cooperative and investigative worli and maliing known results 312. 392. 05 



5, 530, 219. 56 



There were also made under the direction of the Forest Service 

 from other appropriations the following miscellaneous expendi- 

 tures : 



Examination of lands, titles, etc., under the Weeks law $113,126.79 



National Bison Range, Mont ]04. 98 



Refunds to depositors, excess deposits (34 Stat, 1270) 47,716.54 



Payments to States, 25 per cent of receipts from national forest 



resources for the fiscal year 1911 482, 376. 18 



Cooperative fire protection under the Weeks law 44, 9.33. 53 



Burial expenses men killed in fire fighting 1910 10, 972. 65 



Reimbursement for horses, etc., lost fighting fire on national 



forests 2. 067. 90 



Reimbursement to temporary employees for time lost on account of 



injuries sustained in fighting fire on national forests 5, 053. 07 



Cooperative funds returned to contributors 93. 32 



Total 707, 04.5. 56 



The following statement shows the amounts paid to States to be 

 expended for roads and schools from the national forest receipts of 

 the fiscal year 1911 and the amounts that will be paid for the fiscal 

 year 1912: 



state. 



Arizona... 

 Arkansas. 

 California 

 Colorado. 

 Florida... 



Idaho 



Kansas... 

 Michigan.. 

 Minnesota 

 Montana.. 

 Nebraska. 



State. 



Nevada 



New Mexico.. 

 North Dakota 



Oklahoma 



Oregon 



South Dakota 



Utah 



Washington... 

 Wyoming 



Total.... 



Amounts 



paid 

 fiscal year 



1911. 



$12,198.38 

 32,541.34 

 71.41 

 273.67 

 35,612.30 

 14, 197. ,32 

 34,869.10 

 24,111.36 

 30,126.52 



432,376.18 



Amounts 



payable 



fiscal year 



1912. 



$15 

 29 



42 

 10 

 33 

 31 

 30 



,086.07 



625.32 



70.96 



878.45 



,.559.52 

 5<J5.06 

 760.42 

 895.21 

 637.22 



506,572.94 



The appropriation act for the current year provided that 10 per 

 cent of all national forest receipts of the fiscal year 1912 should be 

 available for expenditure by the Secretary of Agriculture on roads 

 and trails within the States in which the receipts were obtained. 

 The amounts available under this provision are shown below. The 



