The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-01

ton with the federal trade commission
and the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, "are related primarily to the
carrying of enormous quantities of raw
material, exploitable only during long
period of time, in private ownership.
This load of uncut timber, with its far
reaching financial burdens, hampers or
prevents the private operator from adapt.
ing his business to the changed condi-
tions of his market and to the competi-
tive factors of more or less recent de-
velopment. Hence tendency toward a
lumber output governed not by the re-
quirements OF the country, but by the
financial necessities of the owners of
stumpage, with its resultant market de-
moralization and wasteful use of timber
resources, Had the national forests new
er been created, the conditions of trade
depression and wasteful exploitation,
detrimental alike to the interests of the
lumber industry and the public, would
have been markedly accentuated. The
value of public ownership of a consid-
cradle part of the timber resources of
the nation has never been demonstrated
more strilSingly than by the results of
private ownership now manifest"
Although large commercial sales fell
off, due to the depressed condition Of the
lumber market, says the report, the num-
Der of sales to settlers, farmers and
small dealers at cost rates nearly doubled
in number while more than 10000 free
timber permits were issued, an increase
of $40. The steady increase of this use,
the forester adds, indicates the impor-
lance of the national forests to the COM
munities in which they lie and the sta
bility of the local demand for their prod
hcts
The report discusses in detail the work !
of the forest service during the fiscal
year ended June 30 last, showing a. gem
eral increase in all forest activities ex-
eept commercial timber sales. 1t pre-
diets, however larger revenue from all |
sources for the fiscal year 1916, the gem
cral improvement in business conditions |
throughout the country having been al |
ready felt in the national forests, as |
shown by an increase during the first |
three months of about $4,000 over the |
of the same period last year.
During the fiscal year, the total revenues
1914 over 1914. OF the $500, 094.l3 i
provided by the regular appropriation
Tor the forest service. says the report,
s5,2Sl 900 was expended for protection,
Utilization and improvements, the cost
If protection being increased by an ex-
severe fire season which ne
essitated emergency expenditures that
we're partly provided for by deficiency
appropriation Of $349,243. An additional
um of about $4,000 was spent under
aw which permits 10 per cent of the
crest receipts to be employed in road
development for the public benefit.
The expenditures include, says the re-
oTt, the protection of resources which as
et cannot be made to bring in cash re-
urns, such as inaccessible timber, as
yell as those, such as watershed cover
ng and recreational advantages, which
ield great general benefits not however,
in money values. In this
the report mentions that tim
er given free to settlers and others was
-orth more than 100000 while that
Did under the law at cost was worth 1
$4,000 more than the government got
Or it. The revenue also foregone by
lowing free use of certain grazing
nds, adds the report, is estimated to
iceed $4,000, while. moderate charge
" privileges that are free would bring
at least 100000 more All this, says
lie forester, has never been entered on =
lie credit side of the forest service led
n b