ADMINISTRATION 41 



ing use and service to the public but also as a conse- 

 quence to increased financial returns. 



The expenses of the Forest Service on the Na- 

 tional Forests are of a two-fold character. There 

 are costs of administration and protection on the 

 one hand which might be called ordinary running 

 expenses, and the costs of improvements, reforesta- 

 tion, and forest investigations on the other. The 

 latter are really in the nature of investments, and 

 do not properly fall into the category of operating 

 costs. Yet they are absolutely necessary to the 

 welfare of the Forests. They comprise expendi- 

 tures for roads, trails, telephone lines, and similar 

 improvements, the establishment of forests by the 

 planting of young trees which have been destroyed 

 by past fires, the carrying on of research and ex- 

 periments to aid in the development of the best 

 methods of forestry, and expenses connected with 

 the classification and segregation of agricultural 

 lands in the Forests. The establishment of per- 

 manent boundaries and the cost of making home- 

 stead and other surveys are also in the nature of 

 investments. Such expenditures may be looked 

 upon as money deposited in the bank to bear inter- 

 est ; they will not bring direct financial returns now 



