ADMINISTRATION 59 



receipts are paid to the States in which the National 

 Forests are located to be expended for roads and 

 schools. The amount to be paid to the States in 

 this way from the receipts in 1917 is about $848,- 

 874.00. By the acts of Congress organizing them 

 as States, Arizona and New Mexico also receive 

 for their schools funds an additional share of the 

 receipts based on the proportion that their school 

 lands Avithin the National Forests bear to the total 

 National Forest area in the States. The approxi- 

 mate amounts due on account of the receipts for 

 1917 are $42,844.80 to iVrizona and $18,687.56 to 

 New Mexico. Congress has also provided that 10 

 per cent, of the receipts shall be set aside as an 

 appropriation to be used under the direction of the 

 Secretary of Agriculture for road and trail build- 

 ing in National Forests in cooperation with state 

 authorities or otherwise. The amount thus appro- 

 priated on account of the fiscal year 1917 receipts is 

 $339,549.61. This added to the amount carried 

 over from the 1916 receipts fund, $136,981.23, and 

 the amount appropriated for improvements, in the 

 regular Agricultural Appropriation Bill, $450,- 

 000.00, brings the total available for the construe- 



