FOREST SERVICE. 



467 



(5) 



Improvements and property 

 on hand June 30, 1910 : 



(1) Permanent improve- 



ments other than 



equipment $1, 864, 226. 63 



(2) Equipment and other 



nonexpendable prop- 

 erty 636, 816. 40 



(3) Supplies and expend- 



able property on 

 hand June 30, 1910 

 (estimated) 96,325.08 



$2, 597, 368. 71 



$10, 852, 696.. 20 



Balance 7, 859, 484. 83 



Debit items 2 and 3 above, comprising as they do expenditures from 

 departmental funds for printing and binding, payments to States 

 from national forest receipts, and refunds of deposits, are of course 

 not properly chargeable as expenditures by the Forest Service for its 

 own work. The balance shown above includes both these items and 

 disbursements from appropriations expendable only for purposes dis- 

 tinct from national forest administration, protection, and improve- 

 ment. If all disbursements from appropriations available for the 

 latter purpose had been used for this purpose solely, the net balance 

 shown above would become $4,321,655.01. In point of fact the net 

 cost was less. The annual expenditures for administering, protect- 

 ing, and improving the national forests (including that part of the 

 cost of the Washington office fairly chargeable against national for- 

 est administration) were reported as follows: 



Fiscal year. 



1905. 

 1906 

 1907 

 1903 



Expendi- 

 tures. 



$509,186.68 



956,999.07 



1,538,419.31 



3,118,267.21 



Fiscal year. 



1909 



1910 



Total 



Expendi- 

 tures. 



$3,554,896.03 

 4,351,152.55 



14,028,921.45 



If the balance is struck by deducting the credits tabulated above 

 from this total, the entire net cost of national forest administration 

 and protection since the Forest Service took charge becomes $3,170,- 

 225.25, or under $000,000 per year. 



Among other facts developed by the classification may be men- 

 tioned the following: 



(1) Out of the total expenditures of $10,057,759.98 approximately 

 $8,000,000 was di.sbursed in salaries and wages for work on the forests, 

 while over $550,000 more was disbursed in salaries to persons en- 

 gaged in the Avork of national forest administration and stationed in 

 the districts but not on the forests. 



(2) The total expenditure for salaries and wages of persons at- 

 tached to the Washington office (though often employed in work out- 

 side of the city of Washington) for the 11-year period was not quite 

 $2,500,000. This sum covers the cost of general investigations, gen- 

 eral administration, and inspection of national-forest work. 



(3) Expenditures for travel during the entire 11 years was a little 

 less than $1,350,000, or 8.07 per cent of the total expenditures. This 



