Arizona republican., 1915-09-11
BNst*i s2.ks - Aes~ ses-x Nearly $1,oOo,O0O to Be Dis tributed from National Forest Receipts to the States in Which Forests Are Located.
ARIZONA IS TO
 GET GOOD SHARE
Will Receive $59,SO7.S9 for School and Road Pur- poses and Additional $23,- 923.16 for Building Roads and Trails.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1O-The DOT
 ton 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 computation of the forest ser vice just approved by the secretary of the treasury, amounts all told to more than sS50000 The gross re- ceipts for the year ending June 90 were S2,4S1,46 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 S31S,000. Of this amount. Montana is to re ceive S79,5S9.7S for county school and road purposes, while the forest SCI vice will expend s31,835.91 for inn provements of sptcial benefit to To- cal communities and not included ir the regular administrative and pro tective improvements. Idaho comes second with a 25 per cent allow ance of $75,651.15 and a 10 per cent fund of s3O,260.46. California is third, receiving a 25 per cent allow ance of s67.611.s7 and a 10 per cent fund of S27.044.74. The other na tional forests states follow in the order of the size of their respective shares:
 Arizona. s59,SO7S9 under the 25 per cent provision and s23,923.16 un- der the 10 per cent; Colorado, s59. 21s60 and s25,6S744 Oregon s49.- 67593 and s19.S7O,33: Utah. s4S,675.9G and $19,47O.3s. Wyoming, s43,0S6.s6 and s17.234.75; Washington, $37.445.56 and $14.97S.23; New Mexico, s31.7S6. 46 and s12,7145S: Nevada. s16,244.5S and s6,497.S1: South Dakota, s12.9SS.- Il and s519525; Alaska, s11,1S5.75 and s4,466.3O: Arkansas, $S.73S.93 and S3.495.57; Florida, s2.336.77 and $7SS.64; Nebraska. s1.40115 and s56O.46; Kansas s1,357.33 and $542.95; Oklahoma, s759.77 and s303.91; Michi- gan s19S.37 and s79.35; North Da kota, sS1S3 and s3273: Porto Rico. s9.25 and s3.7O.
 The states of Arizona and New Mexico receive additional shares for their school funds on account of school lands included within the na- tional forests. yielding them s2S,966. 46 and s9,311.S7 respectively.
 On the national forest purchase ar eas in the east, a torta of S2 977.60 was collected in Georgia, New HampI shire, North Carolina. Tennessee. Virginia. and West Virginia, thesa states thereby sharing syg4.4O unuer the 25 per cent provision and $397.75 under the 10 per cent.
 The total amount to he 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 s16,000 greater than for the previous fiscal year, as the receipts for the fiscal year 1915 exceed those of the previous fiscal year by about s44,o00. 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 s4,50o,0o0. This ten per cent provi- sion for government built public roads has been in force only since 1912, and has now made available for this purpose an aggregate of s926,00O