FOREST SERVICE. 



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roads and trails to be conslructed with these sums will be primarily 

 for the benefit of communities. 



state or Territory. 



Arizona... 

 Arkansas- 

 California 

 Colorado. 

 Florida... 



Idaho 



Kansas... 

 Jliohij^an.. 

 Minnesota 

 Montana.. 

 Nebraska. 

 Nevada... 



Ten per 

 cent for 

 expendi- 

 ture for 

 roads, etc. 



$-24, 

 2, 

 24 

 21 



23, 



23 

 1, 

 6, 



645.77 

 283.52 

 821.13 

 .503.63 

 981.97 

 809.52 

 489.86 

 2.31 

 .503.27 

 026.55 

 630.36 

 034.43 



State or Territory. 



New Mexico.. 

 North Dakota 



Oklahoma 



Oregon 



South Dakota 



Utah 



Washington... 



Wyoming 



Alaska 



Total 



Ten per 

 cent for 

 expendi- 

 ture for 

 roads, etc. 



$11 



17 

 4 

 13 

 12 

 12 

 4 



,850.13 

 28.38 

 351.38 

 ,023.81 

 ,226.02 

 ,504.17 

 ,758.08 

 ,254.88 

 ,675.48 



207,304.65 



The States of Arizona and New Mexico will also receive a per- 

 centage of the 1912 receipts for their school funds proportionate to 

 the school-land sections within national forests. The amount of this 

 is estimated at $27,884.09 for Arizona and $8,326.22 for New Mexico. 

 The total amount payable to States or expendable within States for 

 the benefit of their citizens from the national forest receipts of the 

 last fiscal year is therefore $750,087.00. The total amount of national 

 forest gross earnings paid to the States in 190G, the first year in which 

 any provision for payments to them of national forest funds was 

 made, was $75,510.19. The aggregate sum of all such payments to 

 date is approximately $2,850,000. 



The share of the receipts which is now being paid over to the States 

 from some of the forests is greater than the taxes which the lands 

 would yield if they were entirely in private ownership. On the less 

 developed forests the volume of use is still too low to make the returns 

 to the States important; such forests would, however, yield little in 

 taxes at the present time if they had never been set aside for national 

 forest purposes. 



As the great bulk of the timber, now too remote from transporta- 

 tion facilities to have a lumbering value, comes into demand the pay- 

 ments to the States will mount up rapidly, "\^^len a point is reached 

 at which an equivalent of the total annual growth on the forests can 

 be cut, the returns will be very large. It is shown later in the report 

 that this possible annual yield is about 6,000,000,000 feet, which at the 

 present stumpage rates would give a gross return of $15,000,000. Of 

 this, under the present apportionment of 35 per c^nt, including the 

 10 per cent for roads, the States would receive $5,275,000 directly. 

 Doubtless when the forests are self-supporting a new apportionment 

 will be made. In addition it should be borne in mind that with the 

 practice of fore.stry the returns will bo permanently sustained, and 

 that the lumber industries which will be occupied in manufacturing 

 this annual product of the forest will distribute in the neighborhood 

 of $50,000,000 a year in wages. The States are even now receiving, 

 without cost to them, substantial sums paid from gross receipts, while 

 the heavy burden of administration and protection is borne entirely 

 by the Federal Government. If the forests were owned and protected 

 by the States the income now derived from them would instantly be 



70481°— AGB 1912- 



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