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ANNUAL KEPOETS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



water-power plants but had to be met in greater part by the con- 

 struction of new steam plants and by the interconnection of exist- 

 ing plants. At present financial and industrial uncertainties and 

 the unsatisfactory character of Federal laws are resulting in further 

 postponements of water-powder utilization. Any considerable utiliza- 

 tion of our undeveloped water powers must await both the enactment 

 of legislation and the stabilization of the general economic situation. 



The receipts from water-power permits and easements were 

 $72,322.06, as compared with $93,976.35 for the fiscal year 1918. 

 Ten applications for preliminary rental permits were received, 14 

 for final rental permits or easements (of which 9 were for transmis- 

 sion lines only), and 11 for free permits or easements (of which 3 

 were for transmission lines only). Data concerning projects under 

 permit at the close of the year are given in the following tabulation: 



Water-power sites and transmission line rights of way under permit and easement, fiscal 



year 1919. 



' With or without transmission lines. 



Recreation and Game. 



Plans for the management of the National Forests must aim to 

 provide for an orderly development of all their resources, for the use 

 and benefit of the public. Such plans would be incomplete if they 

 failed to take into account the wild life and the recreation resources. 



Use of the National Forests for recreation was greater than ever 

 before. There is not a single Forest, and there is scarcely a ranger 



