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C. A. SCHENCK. 



1. The object of the national forests. 



2. The public and private use of the national forests for 

 pasture; the free use of timber and stone; the sale of dead, 

 matured, and large timber; rights of way; establishment of 

 churches, schools, hotels, and so on. 



3. Entry of mineral lands. 



4. Relinquishment of claims. 



Hunting and fishing, in the national forests, are free to all, under 

 restrictions merely based on state laws. 



Congress has been generous in appropriating money to the 

 Forest Service for administrative purposes. The appropriations 

 of the Forest Service have been : 



in 1907, $1,998,550 



in 1908, $3,475,892 



in 1909, $3,804,900 



in 1910, $4,678,427. 



Prior to 1908, there was in existence a special "forest reserve 

 fund," into which were flowing any and all receipts, notably those 

 from pasture and timber sales derived from the national forests. 

 This fund was placed at the disposal of the Forest Service for the 

 protection, the improvement and the administration of the natio- 

 nal forests. 



In 1905, the employes of the Forest Service were placed in the 

 classified service under the civil service law. 



25 per cent of the gross revenue derived from any national 

 forest is turned over (Agricultural Appropriation Act of 1907) 

 by the national treasury to the state in which such national 

 forest is situated, with the proviso that the sums thus paid 

 must be used for the benefit of the schools and of the roads 

 in the counties embraced by the forest. No county, however, 

 shall obtain from this source a sum exceeding 40 per cent of 

 its other revenue. 



The Forest Service, headed by a forester and by an associate 

 forester, consists, in 1910, of three divisions, viz.: 



I. special staff ; 

 II. four branches; 

 III. six forest districts. 



