The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-09-12
WIFE,
SHARE THE
FOREST FUND.
Secretary Of Treasury Approves
Annual Division of Receipts
for Schools and Roads.
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atsrEetAL TO THE rKL1oeAM1
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.-THE
portion OF the national forest re-
ceipts for the fiscal year 1915 to 60
to the benefit OF the various states
In which the forests lie. according to
the computation Of the forest SER
Vice Just approved by the secretary
OF the treasury, amounts all told to
more than $85D.OO0. The gross re-
ceipts for the year ending June 80
were $2,481, 469.35, of which under
the law twenty-five per cent is paid
over to the states for county school
and road purposes and an additional
ten per cent is made. available for ex-
penditure by the secretary Of agricul-
ture in building roads and trails for
the benefit OF local communities.
Montana Gets Most.
Montana gets the largest share,
having contributed the largest
amount Of receipts for the sale OF
timber, grazing and other uses Of the
forests. or more than $318, 900. or
this amount, Montana is to receive
sS79.589 IS for county school and
road purposes, while the forest SER
vice will expendi $31, 1854 for i'm
provements of special benefit to local
communities and not included in the
regular administrative and protective
Improvements. Idaho comes second
with a twenty-five per cent allow
ance of $75,651.15 and a ten per cent
fund of S30,260.46. California is
third, receiving a.twenty-five per cent
allowance of $67,611.S7 and ten
per cent fund of $27,O44.74. The
other national forests states follow.
in the order of the size of their re-
spective shares:
Arizona. s5s,s07.ss under the
twenty-five per cent provision and
$23,923.16 under the ten per cent;
Colorado. $59,218, 60Fand $23, 1914;
Oregon, $49,675l SO and $19, $40. SO;
Utah, $48,675.96 and SIS, 47O.38;
Wyoming, $43,086.S6 and $17,234.75l
Washington. s37, 445.56 and $14,-
97s.23; New Mexico. s31.786.46 and
s12. ia. So; Nevada. $16,244.53 and
$6,497:81; South Dakota, $12,988.11
and $5,195.25; Alaska, s11, 165 rs
and $4.466.30. ;Arkansas, i$S,73S.93.
and $3,495.57: Florida, 50 ,336.77
and $934.71; Minnesota. $1,971!6O
and $788.64; Nebraska, $1,4O1. rs
and $560.4e; Kansas, sl,357.33 and
N$542.93: Oklahoma, $759s77 and
$303.91; Michigan, $198.37 and
$79.35; North Dakota, $81.33 and
$32.73, and Porto Rico, $9.25 and
$3.50. 81
The states of Arizona and New.
Mexico receive additional shares for
their school funds on account Of the
school lands included within the ma
tional forests, yielding them $685.
966.46 and s9.311.S7 respectively.
West Virginia's Share
On the national forest purchase:
areas in the East, a total of $3,977.6O
was collected in Georgia, New Hamp-
shire, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia and West Virginia, these
states thereby sharing $994.40 I'M
der the twenty-five per cent provision
and $397.76 under the ten per cent.
The total amount to be expended
under this system Of sharing the for
est receipts with the states to make
up for the loss Of local taxes due to
public ownership OF the land is about
$4,000 greater than for the pre-
vious fiscal year, as the receipts for
the fiscal year 1915 exceeded those Of
the previous fiscal year by about $44,-
900. The provision OF law under
which portion Of the receipts is
turned over to the states dates from
1906. and the total payments reach,
with this years allotment, nearly
81, 100000. The ten per cent pro.
vision, for government built public
roads has been In force only since
1912, and has now made available
for this purpose an aggregate of
s926,000.