The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-08-20
NATIONAL FOREST BUSINESS
SHOWS INCREASE

receipts from National Forest
business in the North Pacific district
for the fiscal year ending June 30.
1920, totalled $S6O,663.OS, which is
$106, 100000 greater than the receipts
of the preceding year, according to a
report just compiled in the office Of
District Forester, George H. Cecil, of
Portland
The Whitman National Forest, in
eastern Oregon. leads in receipts
with a total of s119.252S7 In the
second place, is the Tongass National
Forest, Alaska with receipts of S94,.
21O.23; the Crater Forest in southern
Oregon, comes third with SS1 ,O7499:
while Columbia, Olympic and Wallo-
wa follow in the order named with
44,964.96, S43,5S1.O7, S41,541.S4 re-
ceipts respectively.
By far the greater portion of these
receipts came from timber sales
| which brought in S51S,S4517 during
the year and an additional SS.5S2.35
trespass. The Whitman National
Forest leads the District in timber
business, with a total of 500. SO6o4.
receipts from timber sales alone. The
Tongass National Forest, Alaska.
comes second with S79,S7S.63, and
the Crater Forest in Southern Ore
| gon, occupies third place with re-
ceipts of $50, 579O3. The Columbia
Forest, Washington, $41,51S.75; the
Olympic Forest, Washington, $685.
751.54; and the Siskiyou Forest, in
Oregon, S28,57S.SS, follow in the or
der named. Other Forests doing tim
Der sale business in excess of $4,000
are the Rainier, 22,7O3.65; the Ore
gon, S21,414.29; Snoqualmie, s21, 166.
so, Umpqua, S17,4S264; Washing
ton, $17,056.15; Wenatchee, s12,87O.-
II; Siuslaw, $10,644O2; Colville, S1O,-
3S1.99; and the Chugach, $1O,2OO.25.
The Wallowa Forest leads in re-
ceipts from grazing with 500, 1868. "a
the Malheur, with S34,459O8, comes
second; and the Ochoco, with $22,-
6O5.37, third. The Wenaha. S22,374.-
%; the Whitman, $20,207.37, and the
Fremont, $19,513.76. occupy fourth,
fifth, and sixth places. Of the six
leading grazing Forests for 1920, five
are located in Oregon and the sixth,
the Wenaha, partly in Oregon and
partly in Washington. Other graz
ing forests having receipts in excess
of $1,000 Dare the Mnam, 19.2S3.O7:
Okanogan, S18,17965; the Colville.
$15, 105.59; the Umatilla, $13,310.23;
and the Rainier, $1O,09791.
The Tongass National Farest, AL
aska, leads in special use business,
with total receipts of 81 ,0006O. The
Chugach, in Alaska, comes second.
with S2,411; the Wallowa, third, ST.
O69.2S; the Crater, Colville and Olym-
pic following in the order named.
The Oregon leads in waterpower
business, with receipts of S5,113.81.
The Tongass comes next with 1881:
and the Whitman third, with 1866.
Fire tresspass on nine Forests
brought in $13,567.34, and grazing
tresspass on five Forests paid S1,O1O.-
95; S7,571.40 covers timber settle
ment cases on five Forests, the Olym-
pic leading with $4,2O450. The O.
lympic leads also in fire tr espass,
with S9,6s4.91.
Twenty-Five per cent of the total
receipts for the district, s215,165, will
be returned to Oregon, Washington
and Alaska, to swell the road and
school funds of the counties or dis
tricts in which the National Forests
are located. Ten per cent more, $780,
o66, must be spent in road or trail
development within the Forests
themselves.
The total receipts from the M