Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-07
P|NCH0T'S REPORT
Says Forest Service Cost
$3,936,297 in 1909.
FUND AVAILABLE SMALL
Many Urgent Projects Had to Be
Abandoned Because Appropria-
tions Were Not Made.

OF forestry for the fiscal year ended
June 80. 1909. were So 936 29747, accord
ing to the annual report of Clifford Pin
chot, forester, which was made public
today The amount paid TO states and
territories to be expended for roads and
schools was s444.37s. The area of the
national forests amounts to 1874. sos. 3aaJ
acres.
Mr.. P1nchot pays especial attention TO
the permanent improvements to the for
ests and points out that the 100000 ap-
propriated by Congress for this work
was an average of about $4,000 for each
forest and less than third of the
amount called for by the estimates CT
the supervisors
Appropriations Too Small.
In discussing this question he says:
Inc need of. trails. roads. bridges and
telephone lines in new and unsettled
country. and of buildings to house ths
forest officers. was very great Many ur
gent projects had to be POSTPONED for
lack of money.
The construction work comnleted dur
ing the year comprised 1870 miles Of
tfaiis, ~ miles of roads, l,41S miles OF
teiephone lines, 81 bridges, 776 miles of
pasture and drift fences, T.; miles of fire
lines and J.S cabins and barns. The
maintenance of improvements drew APP
probably from the fund, since trails and
teiephone INES In rough and wooded
country require many repairs each year
after the heavy winter storms.
Incorporation with states communities
and individuals i'll the construction OF
roads. trails, bridges, telephone lines and
fences made possible much larger in
crease of facilities than could have been
provided from the congressional appro-
priation alone. For example wagon
road OF II miles on the Occur d. Alene ma.
t1onal forest in Idaho, built In co-opera-
ton with the county of Shoshone and the
city or wallace, cost approximately $780,
UO; the county contributed $4,000, the
city 5000 and the forest service $1,000.
In southern California the citrus-fruit as
sociattons taxed the boxes of fruit shipped
through their exchanges to raise coop
erative funds for trail and fi-e-b-eak con-
struction on forest watersheds which sup
ply their members. Water CT mpanies and
boards OF county supervisors made con-
tributions, and Individual ranchers gave
either money or work. The total amount
ed to $3.50. including 1914 from the state
Of California, and the supervisor was
funds were not available for the forest
services share.
Value of Fire Lines.
The value of fire lines was shown in
southern California. One stopped a seri-
Gus fire without human aid. and another
prevented a dangerous valley fire from
extending into the mountains.
Part of the permanent Improvement
fund was used for drift fences. pastures,
cOrrals, sheep bridges, reservoirs, counting
chutes and other miscellaneous range inn
provements which increased the carrying
greater value to the permittees In a
part of this work stock associations and
individual perm.ttees co-operated. The
,und appOrtioned to this line of work Is
entirely inadequate TO meet the demands
of the users OF the different forests
AS To general Investigations the
forester says:
The public welfare requires that we
should know both how to make all
forests, public and private, produce the
most of what we need and how to make
the most of what out forests produce.
The first end is the aim OF ivfculture
Like field crops, the forest crop responds
in character and amount to the cultural
treatment given 1t. To bring about bet
ter forest culture the forest service
studies the conditions which govern the
character and rate OF forest growth
throughout the United States. 1t also.
to promote the best use of the material
which the forest puts at our disposal,
studies the uses to which this material is
or might be put. Under these two heads,
silvical studies and studies of forest
products, falls the general investigative
work OF the service