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of patrol districts, for which they are in all re- 

 spects responsible. Roads and trails are built to meet 

 the administrative and fire fighting needs of each for- 

 est, and water towers connected with headquarters 

 by telephone stand at points which enable the entire 

 forest to be seen. When smoke is reported from two 

 or more towers, the supervisor at headquarters is 

 able to determine its exact location and give orders 

 intelligently. 



In 1927 the personnel of the Forest Service 

 numbered 5,322 men. Of these 4,012 were em- 

 ployed in the field as supervisors, deputy supervisors, 

 rangers, guards, etc., and 920 were engaged in ad- 

 ministrative, scientific, and clerical work in the 

 Washington and district headquarters, the Forest 

 Products Laboratory and the Forest and grazing 

 experiment stations. 



The cost of this work for 1927 was $23,512,- 

 220, of which $5,166,605 were returned from the 

 forest as timber, forage, water-power and other 

 charges. General administration cost $383,424 ; fire 

 protection and suppression $5,164,360; reforesta- 

 tions, $240,457; camp grounds $41,072; and re- 

 search $1,027,606. Roads under the acts of 1913, 

 1916, 1919, 1921, and 1925 to provide, in addition to 

 working roads and trails, connections between high- 

 ways on either side of the forests, and access for 

 the communities and individual settlers of the for- 

 ests with each other and to state and national high- 

 ways, cost $10,512,220. 



