New-York tribune., 1909-01-18
FUREST REPORT
Pinchofs Figures Shoe Increase an
VaLue of the Service.

washington. Jan. l7.-Listing receipts and ex-
pendtures and explaining them. much as rail-
road president reports to his board OF directors
Clifford Pinchot chief forester. has just made a
retrospect of work Of the United states FOREST
service for the fiscal year 1893
For the administration and protection OF the 1S
national forest reserves in seventeen states ana
territories and Alaska the government spent
81 oes o. or about 1;z cents an acre Permanent
improvements including the construction of 3.4oo
miles of trails, 100 miles OF wagon roads, 3,S0 miles
of Telephone lines, $50 cabins and barns. 600 miles
of pasture and drift fences. go bridges and forty
miles OF fire lines cost 1892 1s9 1s- Telephone wire
10 build approximately 400 miles Of additional lies
was shipped TO the forester. but with the funds
available before the close of the year the work OF
construction could not be completed Some of this
was done each of the forests In the United
States.
.I,boush MANY needed improvements could rot
he underta ken the benefits of what has been aC-
compshed are in the more convenient and
economical manner in which the forest officers are
enabled to carry their work and in the opening
I'D TO forest users Of territory hitherto inaccessible
The remaining s2s $40 10 of the total of S4l6ol 81
disbursed on account of work of the forest service
was used IN forest Investigations costing s25 a.
in diffusion OF forest information and in federal
cooperation.
The forest service is one OF the branches OF the
government in which everything is outgo. Last
wear the receipts sales of timber. grazing fees
and permits Cor special uses of forest resources
amounted TO sS42,2S1 81. an increase OF GI-z -
over the 1907 figures. The receipts an acre from
the national forests were little more than one
oept less than FIVE mills under the cost acre
for administration and protection of the forests.
The sums paid the states and territories 10
he expended for roads and pubic Schoois' from
the years receipts amounted 70 S+''"S 'F. t''ehE
hecause of increasing the ~evenUe 10 the states
from, 10 per cent in 1901 - per cent last year
there was total increase of s2s4,oSl % IN the
amounts PAYABLE the states
In addition, the national forests yielded neaNHS
% tho publIc in free use. There were So-d4 per-
,,s Granted for the free Use of timber by settlers
ecboos and churches in the year. against H'oss IN
1.,7 The board feet used iE this way oy the
pubIic amounted 13l l,520O- valued at >l0o.I-V'
or,nared TO 100000 feet. valued at s'0V In Io'-
The grazing receipts for 1905 we're SSo-e-S - d"u
ora ,,oid y- the holders of leSl5 permits 10 Craze
I 2S9 221 cattle horses and hogs, and OF 4'-e- per
rnits 10 Craze 7OS7111 sheep ana soatS- i'eO''p''
Of ssfeO27 q from timber sales were paid oy aP-
proxi,nately 5.1S9 purchasers. who cut 'he equiNa
lent Of 392, 1872 600 board feet of timber Inc re-
i.s from, spe,iaI uses amounted to S5o,42J 23 and
we're paid by 2,O65 permit holders
The years receipts represent prohtaoie use o.
the forests by some thirty thousand individuals or
concerns In addition to more than thirty thousand
getting free use Of timber and other resources
About onefourth Of all the timber cut from the
1,atioraI forests was under free use permits
The purpose Of this free use privilege is to make
ths forests contribute most enectlvey 10 the pubic
welfare he timber given 10 IhuINIuudiS - iV'
the development of the country through settlement
The total receipts from timber sales each year
since the national forests have been under the ad-
rninfstration of the Forest Service have been as
fol,o,,s. 1905 ssO1S6 81 1905. s245.olS 40: 1907.
ss6S sI3 10: 1905. sS49021 -
The average area allotted each officer theoretically
.vauahIe for patroi duty 1855 acres But
more than three-fourths of the time of these for
est officers is now required by the fast growing
volume of national forest business. 50 that in
tn as~fDS Oft he
- provided about one patrol officer to each
;nn 0D acres OF forest. This is considered made
,atA for the protection OF the forests Until pro-
vision is made for a large increase OF iorce II l.
,ecessary either to curtail the business arising
from, ,,se of the forests to neglect the prope.
safeguarding of government property against nre-
about 100000 trees were planted last year on tor-
20 in Nebraska Kansas Colorado New Mexico.
Arizona. Utah. Idaho and California There are
ro1,, growing at the planting stations more than
. ooo COO trees which will be ready for planting IT
1000 Sufncient seed sown in the spring OF 1879
to produce $4,000 seedlings