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The expenditures, amounting to 8,796,740, or, if special appropriations not 

 recurring are deduced, to ss,."),s2,2<5s, represented 47.38 per cent, of the gross 

 in< nine. It may U- of interest to indicate in what direction this large amount is 

 expendt-d : 



There ;ire IL'L' oflicers in higher branches of administration, aggregating 



salaries t<> the amount of $154,350 



C.s ! district officers or managers 588,276 



'1,753 umlerforesters or guards 1,162,8(57 



114 (inaiK-ial agents 73,141 



Otlier temporary employes and personal expenses 1,073,587 



Total personalia . $3,052,221 



Cost of harvesting wooil crop (lumbering at a little less than 7 cents per 



cubic foot) $2,206,030 



Buildings 599,834 



Roads and water ways 410,102 



Surveys , 110,226 



Injurious insects 60,454 



Culture 1,230,882 



Sundries 280,073 



Total salaries and administration $8,009,822 



Forestry schools and scientific research * 48,130 



Purchase of lands 304,156 



Sundries.. 434,632 



Grand total $8,796,740 



Or $1.33 per acre, leaving a net revenue of $1.30 per acre, as against 97 cents in 1870,. 

 when the expenditure per acre was 34 per cent. less. 



(10) The proposed legislation contemplates a segregation of the timber lan^s 

 that are stocking on non-agricultural soil from the other public lands and the 

 transfer of their administration from the Department of the Interior, where 

 lands are held only for disposal, to the Department of Agriculture, which is 

 designed to look after cultural matters and ivhere a bureau in charge of forestry 

 matters already exists. 



To save expense in the beginning and to create as quickly as possible an 

 efficient protective service, the army may well be employed for such duty. 

 This service has been conferred upon the army in the Yellowstone and the 

 California parks to the full satisfaction of both officers and men, with the antici- 

 pated results as far as the protection of the forest property is concerned. 



Co-operation with State authorities, such as forest commissions or commis- 

 sioners, is provided for with a view of enlisting the authorities of the States in 

 the upholding of a rational forest policy. 



Since these forest reservations are not to be in the nature of parks, they are 

 to remain open to public use and entrance for all purposes, excepting so far as 

 restrictions appear necessary in order to protect the property from damage and 

 depredation. Prospecting and mining are to be permitted under proper regulations. 



The main features of the legislation, however, are its provisions lor the 

 cutting of timber under a system of licenses and the creation of the necessary 

 force of officers to attend to the business of a regular forest administration pro- 



* We (i.e., United States) appropriate for a similar purpose, namely, the forestry division in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, whose function it is to build up an interest in the subject and to supply informa- 

 tion on forestry matters where none existed before, less than one-half of this amount. 



