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Show STATES TO SHARE $350,030 FROF.i NATIONAL FESTS The portion of the National Fores1 receipt for the fiscal year 1915:, g0 to the benefit of the various States in which the Forest? lie, according to the computation of the Forest Service just apprcvt d by the Secretary of the Treasury, amount all told to moe than $850,000. The gross receipts for the year ending June 30 were $2 4S1 469.25 of which under the law 25 per cent is paid over to the Siaies for county school and road purposes and ;n acjdi- ' tional 10 per cent is made avail be t0r ! expendi'ure by the S :cretary (, Ao-ri- j culture in building roads and tu.ls "for i the benefit of local communitiei. I Montana gets the largest share, i having contributed the largest 3m0Unt ' of receipts for the sale of timbt-i, graz. j ing, and other uses of the For(sla or : more than $318,000. Of this ant, : Montana is to receive $79,58:i;6 for county school and road purposes Wnjie the Forest Service will expend tl gy.5 ' 91 for improvements of special benefit to local communities and not inched in ; the regular administrative and protect ive improvements. Idaho comes ,econ(i i with a 25 per cent allowance of tr, Kri 15 and a 10 per cent fund of pj.ig" (Continued on page 4) j STATES TO SHARE $850,000 FROIVi NATIONAL FORESTS (Continued from page one) California is third, receiving a 25 per cent allowance of $67,611.87 and a 10 per cent fund of $27,044.74 The other National Forests States follow in the order of the size of their respective share: Arizona. $59,807.89 under the 25 per cent provision and $23,923.16 under the 10 per cent; Colorado, $59,218 60 and $23,687.44; Oregon, $49,675.83 and $19,870.33; Utah, $48,675 96 and $19,470.-38; $19,470.-38; Wyoming, $43,086 and $17,234.75; Washington, $37,435.96 and $14,978.23; New Mexico. $31,786 46 and $12,714.58: Nevada, $16,244.53 and $3,497.81; South Dakota, $12,988.11 and $5, 195 25; Alaska, $11,125.75 and $1,466.30; Arkansas, $8,-738.93 $8,-738.93 and $3,495.57; Florida, $2,336.77 and $934.71; Minnesota, $1,971.60 and $788.04; Nebraska, $1,401.15 and $590 -4G; Kansas, $1,357.33 end $542.93; Oklahoma. Okla-homa. $769.77 and $303.91. Michigan, $198.37 and $79.35; North Dakota, $81.-83 $81.-83 and $32.73; Porto Rico, $6.55 and $3.70. |