The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-09-16
States to Share $85O,OOO From
National Forests.
Secretary of Treasury Approves Annual
Division of Receipts for School and Road
PURPOSES

oeCEetdIV Oh treasury approves Annual
Division of Receipts for School and Road
Purposes.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 1915. The
portion Of the National Forest receipts
for the fiscal year 1915 to go to the bene-
fit of the various States in which the
Forests lie, according to the computa-
ton of the Forest Service just approved
by the Secretary of the Treasury.
amounts all told to more than $3.50, 600.
The gross receipts for the year ending
June 80 were $2,481, 469. IS, of which
under the law Is per cent is paid over to
the States for county school and road
purposes and an additional 10 per cent
is made available for expenditure by the
Secretary of Agriculture in building
roads and trails for the benefit of local
communities.
Montana gets the largest share, having
contributed the largest amount of re-
ceiots from the sale of timber, grazing,
and other uses of the Forests, or more
than s51S, 900. Of this amount, Montana
is to receive SIS, 589.78 for county school
and road purposes, while the Forest Ser
vice will expend $31, 1876. 81 for improve
ments of special benefit to local COM
munities and not included in the regular
administrative and protective improve
ments. Idaho comes second with rs
per cent allowance of SIS, Col. Is and a
10 per cent fund of $50, 1904 Califor-
MIA Is third, receiving Is per cent al
lowance of SGT, 61l.37 and 10 per cent
fund of $27,044.74. The other National
Forests States follow in the order of the
size of their respective shares:
Arizona. $50. 8O7.s9 under the rs per
cent provision and $23, 923. 16 under the
10 per cent; Colorado, $59,21S 60 and
s2S. 6s7. "A; Oregon, $40, CTS. s3 and $751;
S70.33; Utah, $48.675.96 and $19, 47O. SO
Wyoming, $43,OS6s6 land $l7,234.75;
Washington, S37, 445.56 and $14,9 78. %;
New Mexico, $3l, 7s6.46 and SIP, 714.58;
Nevada, SIG. So and Sc, 497. 81; South
Dakota, $l2.9ss.l1 and SIS, 1876. rs; Alas
ka, s11, 1875 and $4,466.3O Arkansas,
IS, 1888 and $3,495.57; Florida, ST.
1857 and $934.71; Minnesota, S,971.6O
and 1854; Nebraska, 81, and
$3.50. 46; Kansas, $1,357 80 and $542 SO;
Oklahoma, $759. u and $3O3. 81; Michigan,
s198. 81 and $79 IS; North DAKOTA, $Sl. 83
and $32. 70; Porto Rico, 1925 and $3,7O..
The States of Arizona and New Mexi
CO receive additional shares for their
school funds on account of school lands
included within the National Forests,
yielding them $2S, 966.46 and $9,311.87.
respectively.
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, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia, these States
thereby sharing $994.4O under the rs
per cent provision and 1897. 76 under the
10 per cent.
The total amount to be expended I'M
der this system of sharing the Forest re-
ceipts with the States to make up for
the loss of local taxes due to public own
ership Of the land is about SIG, 900 great
er than for the previous fiscal year, as
the receipts for the fiscal year 1915 ex-
ceeded those of the previous fiscal year
by about $4,000. 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 $4,5OO,-
600. The ten per cent provision for gov
ernment-built public roads has been in
force only since 1912, and has now made
available for this purpose an aggregate
of 1926, 200.