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lookout Stations, and by use and sale of resources an income of $22,154 

 was secured. The Pisgah National Forest and Game Preserve were 

 established by proclamation. 



At the same time as the above purchases were made 10,500 acres of 

 public timber lands in Alabama have by Presidential proclamation been 

 set aside as National Forest, and it is expected that by further pur- 

 chases a unit of about 150,000 acres will be here established. Much of 

 this land consists of poor abandoned homesteads at the headwaters of 

 Sipsey River, a tributary to Warrior River, where the Government is 

 building extensive locks and dams. 



The Commission wisely refuses "to make further purchases in Geor- 

 gia until after the repeal of hostile legislation passed by the State last 

 summer. About 27,800 acres on the Savannah and Georgia purchase 

 areas, which were recommended to the Commission, will be held up 

 by this resolution. The Commission also refused to approve the pur- 

 chase of a tract on the Unaka Area in Tennessee, for which a higher 

 price than that agreed to by the owner was awarded by the jury in 

 condemnation proceedings brought with the owner's consent to clear 

 the title." 



We may add that the total acreage of National Forests was on June 

 30. 1917, 155,166,619 acres. The receipts from the National Forests 

 in the fiscal year 1916 amounted to $2,823,541 and in 1917 to $3,457,028, 

 while the appropriations during the past year amounted to $5,549,735- 

 Of this amount only about four million dollars are chargeable to the 

 National Forests, the balance being used in investigative and educa- 

 tional work ; so that the income was only about a half million dollars 

 less than the expenses of protection and administration. 



A set of important bills, denoting remarkable progress in forest taxa- 

 tion, were passed this winter by the Xew York legislature; they have 

 reference more particularly to "lands and growing trees dedicated to 

 continuous forest service." 



Bills 1 181: 1660 and 190:965: 1590 provide for taxation of forest 

 lands of 50 acres and upward, and also recognize the propriety of 

 assessing soil and growing stock separately, the fairness of the assess- 

 ment to be under the judgment and advice of the Conservation Com- 

 mission. But this is not to apply to natural forests from which the 

 growing trees are "not cut within 35 years after the date of their classi- 

 fication as forest lands dedicated to continuous forest service." The 

 classification and certification of such forest lands is to be done bv the 



