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ever $3,000,000, two- thirds of this amount having been put into 

 lines of communication and proteotioru 



Receipts from all sources for the year were slightly under 

 2 , 500, 000, showing an increase of 14 per cent over 1912, while ex- 

 penditures for administration and protection were slightly over 

 $4,600,000, showing a decrease from 1912 of 2 per cent. It is 

 pointed out that tlie work of examining and appraising timber prior 

 to sale is seriously behindhand in some regions and that larger re- 

 ceipts from timber are contingent upon the funds that can be made 

 available for this purpose. Although money for timbei sale work 

 is necessarily subtracted from v;hat is needed to protect the for- 

 ests against fire, improved organization of the fire-protective sys- 

 tem has increased its efficiency. Owing partly to favorable weather 

 conditions the total fire loss, was only ;$67,000, less than 19 per 

 cent of last year, which was the best to date. 



The resident population of the forests is given as nearly 

 200,000, and the transient population as over 1,500,000, Recreation 

 use of the forests is increasing greatly, pjid is in some places giv- 

 ing rise to the need for careful sanitary regulation in the interest 

 of tho 1,200 cities deriving their water supplies from streams pro- 

 iieoted by the forests t 



Mone y for the states 



Under existing lav/, 25 per cent of the gross receipts 

 from the forests is paid over to the states by the federal govern- 

 ment for the benefit of 'county schools and roads. An additional 

 10 per cent is expended in building roads and trails for the benefit 



