The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-09-24
STATES 10 SHARE $S5o,OOO
Secretary Of Treasury Approves An
mual Division Of Receipts.


Washington, Sept. 21.--The portion
of the National Forest receipts for the
fiscal year 1915, to go to the benefit
of the various states in which the
forests lie, according to the cOmputa-
ton of the forest service just APPROX
ed by the secretary of the treasury,
amounts all told to more than $780,
600. The gross receipts for the year
ending June 80 were $2,4S1, 469.35, of
which under the law, 25 per cent is
paid over to the states for county
school and road purposes and an addi-
tional 10 per cent is made available.
for expenditure by the secretary of
agriculture in building roads and
trails for the benefit of local conf
munities.
Montana gets the largest share, hay
ing contributed the largest amount of
receipts for the sale of timber, graz
ing, and other uses of the forests, or
more than Y31S,000 Or this amount,
Montana is to receive $79,5S9 Is for
county school and road purposes,
while the forest service will expend
| $31 1881 for improvements of spe-
cial benefit to local communities and
not included in the regular admins
trative and protective improvements.
Idaho comes second with rs per cent
| allowance of $75,651.15, and a 10 per
cent fund OF $50 ,260.46. California is
third, receiving a 25 per cent allow
ance of S67,611.S7 and a 10 per cent
| fund Of $27 ,044.74 The other Ma
tional Forests states follow in the
order OF the size of their respective
| shares:
| Arizona, $59,SO7S9 under the 25 per
cent provision and $23,92316 under
the 10 per cent provision; Colorado,
$59,21S.60 and 23,6S7.44; Oregon, $49,-
| 1888 and $19,S70.33; Utah, $48,675. SO
and $19,470.3S; Wyoming, SAB, 0S6 and
| SIT ,234.75; Washington, $37,445.56 and
$14,97S.23; New Mexico, $31 1856 As and
S12,7l4.58: Nevada, SIG, 244.53 and &c.
497.91; South Dakota, $12,98S.11 and
$5,195.25; Alaska, $11, 1876 and $4,-
466.30; Arkansas, $S,73S.93 and 49,
1851 Florida, $2,33677 and $93471;
Minnesota, $1,97l.60 and $788.64; Ne
braska, $1,4O115 and $560.46; Kansas,
VI ,357.33 and $54293 Oklahoma, $780,
~ and $3O391; Michigan, $198.37 and
$685. North Dakota $S1.93 and $32.-
10; Porto Rico, 1925 and 1910.
| The States of Arizona and New Mex
leo receive additional shares for their
school funds on account of school
| lands included within the National
Forests, yielding them $2S,966 AZ and
| $9,311.s 81 respectively.
| On the National Forest Purchase
Areas in the East, total of $3,977. so
was collected in Georgia, New Hamp-
shire, North Carolina, Tennessee, Vir-
| ginia, and West Virginia, these states
thereby sharing $944.4O under the rs
per cent provision and $39776 under
| the 10 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 pub
lie ownership of the land is about
$4,000 greater than the previous fis-
cal year, as the receipts for the fiscal
year 1916, exceeded those OF the pre-
vious fiscal year by about $44 ,0O0r 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 al
lotment, nearly $4.5OO,0OO The ten
per cent provision for government
built public roads has been in force
only since 1912, and has now made
available for this purpose an aggre-
| gate of 1926 900