Weekly journal-miner., 1915-09-15
FOREST FUNDS WILL
 BENEFIT STATES

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The portion of the national forest receipts tor the fiscal year 1915 to go 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 $850,0O0 The gross re ceipts for the year ending June 90 were $2,481, ,469.35, of which under the law 25 per cent is paid over to the States for county school and road purposes and an additional 10 per cent is made available for expendi- ture 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 receipts for the sale of timber, grazing, and other uses of the forests, or more than $318,000. Of this amount, Montana is to re- ceive $79, ,589.7S for county school and road purposes, while the forest ser vice will expend $31,83591 for i'm provements of special benefit to To- cal communities and not included in the regular administrative and pro- tective improvements Idaho comes second with 25 per cent allow ance of $75,651.15, and 10 per cent fund of $30,26046. California is third, receiving 25 per cent allow ance of $67,611.87, and a 10 per cent fund of $27,044.74. The other na- tional forest States follow in the or der of the size of their respective shares:
 Arizona, $59,S07.S9 under the 25 per cent provision and $23,923.16 under the 10 per cent; Colorado, $59,2186O and $25,6S7.44; Oregon, $49,675.S3 and $19,870.33; Utah, $48,675,96 and $1947O.38; Wyoming, $43,OS6S6 and $17,234.75; Washington, $57,445.56 and $14,97S.23; New Mexico, $31,- 7S6.46 and $12,7145S; Nevada, $16,- 24453 and $6,497.S1; South Dakota, $129S811 and $5,195.25; Alaska, $11,- 1S575 and $4466.3O; Arkansas, $S,- 73S93 and $3,495.57; Florida, g., 33677 and $93471; . Minnesota, $1,- 971.6O and $7SS.64; Nebraska, $1,- 4O1.15 and $56O.46; Kansas, $1,357.33 and $54293; Oklahoma, $759.77 and $3O391; Michigan, $1oS.37 and $79.35; North Dakota, $S1.83 and $32.73; Por- to Rico $925 and $370.
 The States of Arizona and New Mexico receive additional shares for their school funds on accdunt of school lands included within the na- tional forests, yielding them $2S,966.46 and $9,311.S7 respectively.
 On the national forest purchase areas in the east, total of $3,977.60 was collected in Georgia, New Hamp- shire, North Carolina, Tennessee, Vir- ginia and West Virginia, these States thereby sharing $9944O under the 25 per cent provision and $397.76 under the 10 per cent.
 The total amount to be expended under this system of sharing the forest receipts with the States to make up for the loss of local taxes due to public ownership of the land is about $16,000 greater than for the previous fiscal year, as the receipts for the fiscal year 1915 exceed those of the previous fiscal year by about $$44,00O. The provision of law under which a portion of the receipts is turned over to the States dates from 1906, and the total payments reach, with this years allotment, nearly $4,- 500,O00. This 10 per cent provision for government-built public roads has been in force only since 1912, and has now made available for this pur- pose an aggregate of $926000.