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will receive taxes or money in lieu of taxes every 

 year as long as the National Forests shall endure. 



Financial Returns. All the benefits of which 

 I have spoken are without doubt great assets to 

 the local community, to the State, and to the nation 

 as a whole. They are great contributions to the 

 welfare of our country even though they cannot be 

 measured in dollars and cents. This brings us then 

 to the financial aspect of the National Forest move- 

 ment. Even though the fundamental purpose of 

 the National Forests was in no sense a financial one, 

 it is interesting to look into the finances of this great 

 forestry enterprise. 



The total regular appropriation for salaries, gen- 

 eral expenses, and improvements for the fiscal year 

 1918 is $5,712,275. For 1917 it was slightly less 

 than this: $5,574,735. The receipts from the sale 

 or rental of National Forest resources in the fiscal 

 year 1917 reached $3,457,028.41. From these fig- 

 ures it will be seen that the expenditures exceed the 

 receipts by between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 a 

 year, depending partly on the severity of the fire 

 season and partly on the activity of the general 

 lumber market. When we consider that this is 

 really a newly established business scarcely twenty 



