THE national forests turned into the U. S. treasury dur- 

 ing the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915, nearly $2,500,000, 

 an increase of more than $40,000 over the receipts of the 

 previous year, according to a statement just issued by the 

 forest service. The timber sales, which amounted to $1,164,- 

 000, yielded on account of the depressed condition of the lum- 

 ber industry about $79,000 less than those of the previous 

 fiscal year, but the gain was made possible by larger revenues 

 from other sources. The grazing receipts, which totaled 

 $1,125,000, increased $127,000 over last year, and the water- 

 power receipts, which amounted to not quite $90,000, showed 

 an increase of nearly $42,000. 



The demoralization of the turpentine industry on account 

 of the war's curtailment of the naval stores market caused 

 the receipts from the sale of turpentining privileges on the na- 

 tional forests to drop to about $9,000, as against nearly $15,000 

 last year. The sale of special use permits, under which all 

 sorts of enterprises, from apiaries to whaling stations, are 

 operated on the forests, yielded nearly $78,000, an increase of 

 $9,000 over last year. There was a decrease of nearly $37,000 

 in the revenue derived by the settlement of trespass cases in 

 which government timber had been cut without intent to de- 

 fraud, the revenue from this source being only a little more 

 than $3,000. More than $7,000, however, was collected from 

 other timber trespass cases. Grazing trespass cases yielded 

 nearly $6,000, an increase of about $1,000; occupancy trespass 

 cases, which occurred in only one of the seven forest districts, 

 turned in something less than $250; about $60 was derived 

 from turpentine trespass cases, and $660 from fire trespass 

 cases, the latter being more than $7,000 less than the amount 

 collected in the previous fiscal year for damage to govern- 

 ment property through fires carelessly or wilfully started in 

 or near national forests. 



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