222 WESTERN GRAZING GROUNDS AND FOREST RANGES 



cents per head for sheep and $1.40 per head for cattle 

 for year-long grazing on their reservation, while on 

 the adjoining Apache and Sitgreaves National Forests 

 the Forest Service is charging but 12 cents per head for 

 sheep and 40 cents for cattle for the same time. Yet 

 the two areas are practically the same from a grazing 

 point of view. 



On the Crow Creek Reservation in Montana the high- 

 est bidder for the grazing pays 35 cents per head for 

 sheep and $2.17 for cattle by the year, while on the Big 

 Horn National Forest immediately alongside of it with 

 precisely the same sort of range the Forest Service 

 charges 15 cents per annum for sheep and 45 cents for 

 cattle. 



A withdrawal of some 150,000 acres of grazing land in 

 the Uinta National Forest in Utah for reclamation pur- 

 poses in the Strawberry Valley placed the area under 

 the charge of the Reclamation Service. 



While under the supervision of the Forest Service the 

 charge for grazing this land was only 10 cents per head, 

 the Reclamation Service had little trouble in leasing 

 the area at a rate that brings them in a rental of 42 

 cents for each sheep grazed upon it. 



The state of Utah owns large bodies of lands within 

 several of the National Forests in the state. An agree- 

 ment was entered into between the state land board and 

 the Government by which the Forest Service undertook 

 to handle this land and turn over to the state the net 

 receipts after deducting the cost of caring for it. 



After two years the state revoked the agreement, 

 owing to the fact that it was offered much better prices 

 bv individuals for its use than the fees received from the 

 Forest Service amounted to. The state had no trouble 



