Show TJ ai r FUNDS FROM NATIONAL FORESTS HELP STATES Some Counties Derive Half Hart Their income from This Source j jA A circular just issued by the tho forest service sEr calls cans attention to the various various val R laws taws under which more than a third of all aU national forest receipts go to the benefit of the tho states in which the forests are situated for schools s and roads In 1912 the amount of money X thus made available for state purposes purposes es totaled about The report does not show the tho amounts due from frum the receipts of the fiscal year which closed June 30 1913 Including these the states states' share of national forest funds since elute the the laws 8 were passed has halt I aggregated 0 over er These facts are set forth according to the tho forest service because a popular popular lar impression still exists that all aU money received by the government r I from timber sales grazing fees fee waterpower water waterpower power permits etc ete is taken tak tak- J en out of the states where it is paid r and goes into the national treasury to meet the general expenses of the 2 F govern government men t. t This idea is said eaid to prevail pre pre- i vail vall to some Bome extent even among actual actual actual ac ac- forest users in the national forest for for- 1 est eat states where the division with the states has been going on for years ears The circular states that part of the gross receipts of the national for forests was first fint made available for schools and roads when the a agricultural appropriation ap- ap ap appropriation p- p act of June 30 1906 di directed directed di- di the Secretary of the Treasury to pay over to the state or territory in ID which any forest reserve was situated situated situ situ- ten teD per cent of all aU the money re received received re- re cawed during the fiscal year from such reserve In 1908 1903 the amount to tobe tobe be paid to the states was increased to f 25 per cent and a proviso of the earlier earlier ear ear- lier filer act that no more should be paid 4 to a county than 40 per cent of its total to to- tai tal income from other sources was eliminated Since this proviso was watt 1 f removed some of the counties' counties receipts receipts re- re r from national forest lands have f equalled their income from all o other her y sources In August 1912 the agricultural appropriation act for the year made available an additional 10 per cent of the money received from national forests for for- c ests esta to build and maintain roads and f trails within national forests for the benefit of the public in the states i from which these deny deny- I proceeds are y a ed The total amount expended under under un un- der this provision from the tho receipts of the fiscal year 1912 is of y f which Utah received 1350 i. a |