Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-01-21
Clifford Pinchot Gives Retrospect
of the Work during the
Past Year.
EXPENSE S3,416,107.6t
Receipts from Government Forests
We're st.S1@.2S1.S3-A Total Of
13I.5sc.OOO Board Feet Of Lumber
Given 20 tho PubIic-AhOut
100000 Trees Planted.

Washington. Jan. 17.-Listine receipts
rnd expenditures and explaining them in
pain English much as a railroad presi-
dent reports to his board of directors.
clifford Pinclot, forester. has just made
q retrospect OF the work Of the tinted
states forest service for the fiscal year
1905.
For the administration and protection
OF the 49, national forests In Il States
and Territories ana ALASKA. the govern
nent spent $3.50. C9S.02 or about one and
ore-half cents an acre. Permanent i'm
proVoments. including tre construction of
500 miles Of trails. 100 miles of wagon
leads. 500 miles of telephone lines. $50
cabins and barns. $50 miles OF pastur"
and drift fences. $50 bridges. and 80 miles
C.. fire lines cost $50. 1872 Telephone
wire to build Approximately 400 miles of
additional lines was shipped to the for
ester, but with the funds available be-
fore the close Of the YEAR the work of
construction could not no completed.
Some or this work was dons on each of
the forcs+s 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 and economical
N''i' NH l4' - h0' 90 ~
enabled TO carry on their work and in
the opening up to forest users of terri
tory hitherto Inaccessible. Tho remain
ing SO .<+ltO Of the total OF 81 iG. lO7.Gl.
diSburscd on account Of work Of the for
est service was used in forest inVesji-
cations costing So, S55.1i. and in diffus-
ion Of forest information and federal
cooperation.
FROM FORESTS
The forest service is one of the
branches OF the government where
everything is not outco. Last year the
receipts from sales of timber. grazing
fees and permits for special uses of
forest resources amounted to- 81. 81. PSI. s..
an increase Of sci, PA over the 1907
figures. The per acre receipts from the
national forests were a little more than
one cent. less than five mills under the
per acre cost Of administration and pro-
lection of the forests.
The amounts paid the States and
Territories, to he expended for roads
and public schools from the years
receipts, amounted to 447,063.7a.
Chiefly because of Increasing the rev
cnuo TO the States from 10 per cent. in
1907 to % per cent. last year, Their"
was a total increase of S29A.031 So in
,ho amounts pavable IA fine sto,es
,, .
'"
N addi''oh' me Na'lonal Forests
yielded neaNilN 70 the public IN free
Use. There were 30.7l4 permits grant
,d for ,ba fraa u.o 90 ,i,nho. h. ~,
'ierS' sohoo's ana chhrcles' during the
year against l',3"9 IN 1907. Tie nuIn-
Der OF board feet used i'll TINS way by
The public amounted 10 l3l.5S2. 900. val
ned AT Sl6S.720.oo, compared to 81, 600. =
9oo feet. valued at $4,000 in 1907,
The aggregate of free use of the forests
Tor grazing can not be exactly known,
since no permit is required to he taken
out. and there is therefore no record
preserved. 1t added perhaps 20 per cent
70 the amount or stock carried by rhe
Forests. Settlers living ON or adjacent
10 the forests ana proSpo't"rs' campers