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Show Treasury sends revenue checks U. S. Treasury checks totalling total-ling well over one million dollars dol-lars have been sent to states of the Intermountain Region their share in the Fiscal Year 1960 national forest revenues for multiple uses throughout the region. On August 18, the Forest Service reported that multiple uses on the Intermountain Region's Re-gion's national forests had brought a record 4 million dollars to the U.S. Treasury during Fiscal Year 1960. The monies were accrued through public use of timber, grazing, land, ' recreation, power and minerals. Yearly, 25 percent of the total to-tal regional receipts ($1,152,-962 ($1,152,-962 in this instance) are returned re-turned by law to those states and thence to the counties having hav-ing land within the region's 18 national forests. This procedure proced-ure applies to the entire United States, and the money is earmarked ear-marked for schools and roads |