ject, I have found that the use of the national Forests in this 

 District under formal permit is increasing at the rate of 

 about 400 cases per year. I found that the number of uses, 

 including special uses, water power, and Interior Department 

 rights of way, has more than doubled since the establishment 

 of the District organisation in 1908, There s^ero 1087 cases 

 at the end of the fiscal yoar 1909, and on J- ly 1,1912, there 

 were 2,235. oases. 



The receipts on account of uses have also increased 

 in ecjual proportion. During the fiscal year 1909 the re- 

 ceipts were 19,050, and during the yecr ending July 1,1912, 

 they amounted to $48,331, The increase from 1911 to 1912 

 was over 11,000. The total receipts for the fiscal years 

 1909 to 1912 inclusive were over $115,000. The recent rapid 

 increase has "been due largely to water power, "but the smaller 

 uses have contributed something. T 1 o ir-o.i cat ions are that 

 there will "be a substantial increase this year over last. 



Yfliile the increase of receipts is gratifying and 

 of considerable importance to tho Service, I believe that 

 the increased use of the national forests means more to the 

 Service and to the public than ccai be measured by the amount 

 of the receipts, First, there e the benefit to the indiv- 

 idual permittees, and second the general economic benefits 

 which result from the utilization of these resources; the 

 latter being^especially important in-so-far as it concerns 



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