The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-01-21
PINCHOT REPORTS
ON The FORESTS
Shows How His Service Saves
Money for the Govern
ment.

washington, Jan. 20.-Listing receipts
and expenditures arG explaining them
in plain English much as a railroad
president reports to his board OF direc-
tors. Clifford Pinchot, forester, has just
made a retrospect of the work of the
United States forest service for u
fiscal year 1905.
8 For the administration and prOtec-
ton of the@iS2 national forests in Il
states and territories and Alaska,
government spent So, 526,09S.02 OF, or about
111s cents an acre. Permanent improve
ments including the construction OF
3,4o0 miles of trails, 100 miles of wagon
roads, $500 miles of telephone lines, 500
cabins and barns. 600 miles Of pasture
and drift fences, 259 bridges, and 40
miles of fire lines cost 1892, 169. 10. Tele-'
phone wire to build approximately 400
miles of additional lines was shipped
to the forester. but with the
available before the close of the year
the work OF construction could not be
completed. Some of this work vas done
on each of the forests in the United
States.
Although many needed improvements
could not be undertaken, the benefits
of what has been accomplished are seen
in the more convenient n economical
manner in which the forest officers are
enabled to carry on their work and. IN
the opening up to forest users OF ter
ritory hitherto inaccessible. The re-
naming 1927, 5000 OF the total of 3d.
416, 107.61 disbursed on account Of work
of the forest service was used In forest
Investigations costing $235, 855. II, and in
diffusion of forest information and fed
eral cooperation.
Where Money Is Saved.
The forest service is one of the
branches of the government where ev-
erything is not outgo. Last year the
receipts from sales of timber, grazing
p1>, So ~,,i% fnr cranniol O. np
forest amounted to S1,S42,-
2Sl. 81. an increase of $271. PEAS over the
1907 figures. The per acre receipts from
the national forests were a little more
than / cent, less than 5 mills under the
per acre cost Of administration and pro-
lection of the forests.
The amounts paid the states and ter
ritories. to be expended for roads and
| public schools from the years receipts.
amounted to SAT-, 063.79. Chiefly be-
| cause of increasing the revenue to the
states from 10 per cent in 1907 to rs
per cent last year, there was a total in
crease of 1924, 031. So in the amounts pay
able to the states.
In addition, the national forests yield
ed heavily to the public in free use.
There We're 3O,714 permits granted for
the free use of timber by settlers,
schools and churches, during the year
against 1899 in 1907. The number Of
board feet used in this way by the pub
lie amounted to 131, $4,000.
Tree Planting.
About TOO, 900 trees were planted last
year on forests in the states of Ne
braska. Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico.
Arizona, Utah, Idaho and California.
There are now growing at the planting
stations over 1900, 900 trees which viii
be ready for planting in 1909. Sufficient
seed was sown in the spring of 1908 to
produce 1900, 600 seedlings.
Besides administering the national
forests. the forest service renders. on
request, expert advice and assistance
to other parts of the executive govern
ment regarding the practice of forestry.
Work of this kind was carried on sew
eral military and Indian reservations
In various parts of the country. Co
operative state forest studies were car
ried on with Kentucky, Mississippi,
New Hampshire and Illinois.
The forest service conducts investi-
cations of forest products along the
two lines of wood presentations and
wood utilization. Some of these inves-
LEGATIONS aim primarily to promote bet
ter use of national forest timbers; 9TH
ers seek results either of general APP
plication or contributing to the best
use of the forests of some special re-
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