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Show Arizona, $51,220.33; Arkansas, $2,904.44; California, $60,752.91; Colo-rado, Colo-rado, $50,306.19; Florida, $703.38; Idaho, $66,070.55; Kansas, $1,004.-67;Minnesota, $1,004.-67;Minnesota, $457.37; Montana, $83,678.38; Nebraska, $2,820.25; Nevada, $16,314.33; New Mexico, $28,529.53; North Dakota, $63.64; Oklahoma, $623.10; Oregon, $39,635.87; South Dakota, $9,808.93; Utah, $32,905.49; Washington, $23,671.89; Wyoming, $34,-04.54. Noteworthy is the especially heavy increase over the amounts last year in certain States. In California the amount rose by over 25 per cent, in Idaho by over 35 per cent and in Oregon by nearly 50 per cent. The increases are the result of increased activity in National Forest timber sales in these States and are in earnest of what will happen as the timber supply which the Government is caring car-ing for comes into full demand. Since the cut of timber vill always be limited to what the Forests will keep on growing, the income to the States will be permanent, not transitory, as would have been the case if hasty and improvident exploitation had been permitted According to the calculations of the Department of Agriculture officials the States will eventually receive many times what the Forests For-ests are now yielding them, for these is as yet on the whole only a very restricted demand for the Government's timber. STATE REVENUES FROM NATIONAL FORESTS. For the fiscal year ended June 30 last, the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture announces, the twenty-five per cent of National Forest revenue which will go to the States for road and school purposes amounted to $506,194 84. This was $67,492.03 more than last year, or an increase of a little over 15 per cent. The payments pay-ments are an offset to the loss of income from taxable property sustained sus-tained through withdrawal of the forest land from entry under the public land laws. The amounts which will go to the various States are as follows: |