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Show State Revenues From, National Forests. For the fiscal year ended June 30, last, theU. S.. Department of Agrioul-. Agrioul-. tire announces, the 25 per cent of national fofeat revenue gonig go to the States for road and school purposes amountod to $505,194 84. This was $67,492 03 more than last year, or an increase of a little over 15 pen cent. The payments re an offset to the loss of income from taxable property sustained sus-tained through withdrawal of the forest land from entry undor the public pub-lic land laws, The amount falling, to Utah is 132,905.49, which will be distributed proportionately through thoso counties coun-ties in which reserves are included Ihe apportionment from ths Manti roserve is $6 ,603,16. Noteworthy is the heavy increase ever the timouuts last year in certain fitntsH. Iu C&lifornta the wmpuut rose by ovot 25 per cent, iu Idako by over 45 per cent and in Oregon by nearly 50 p.-r cent. The increases are the result re-sult of increased activity in National Forest timber sales in tbeae states Bud are an earnest of what will happen as the timber supply which the government is caring for comes into lull detuned. Siuce the cut of tim-bt-r ii;I alwdja be limited to what the foiysls will keep growing, the income to tuo jtuies will be permanent, not transitory, ns would have been the tane if hasty and improvident exploit ex-ploit tiiion had bfju permitted. According Ac-cording to the calculations of tbe department de-partment ct agriculture olb"ci;tls the 6'. a ts will eventually receive many times what thi forests arejiekiiug tht'ui, for Qifie is as yet on the whole only a very ft Ktrictfd deojaud for tiie povcruujeut's tircbe.'. |