| Show OU TO fAIN BY TIMBER SALES Representative Mondell Mondel Thinks p I Government Should Give Up 10 Per Cent Cent GRAZING PRIVILEGES PAY Hill Bi Introduced h by Local Profit man mal oxides Pi-oxides Po for From Forest I c Republican Special Service Washington ashington 1 May a The Thie The house committee on public lands lunds will wH take lake up UI for consideration at an all early date ate tho the bill bi recently Introduced by Rep Representative He Mondell of V Wyoming oring granting ten per cent of ot the tho gross glOSS re receipts receipts receipts re- re from forest foresi reserves to tho the counties countes in which the reserves are sit sit- The bill hi is as follows That 10 lOver per cent of the gro gross re receipts re- re derived from oni the tho 11 or disposition dis dis- us- us position of or the pro products of forest re re serves or the granting or leasing of privileges cs therein accruing from and alter after ater the time tay of January Januar 1906 shall be paid to tho the counties countes within which forest reserves are ale situated 01 one half of the sums thus paid to be used for the support of tho the public schools and one half hale to be used for general county purposes Ten PC Per Cent to Counties i I Sec 2 That the Secretary Soci of Agriculture Ag Ag- t shall at the beginning of each year yen I transmit to the Secretary Secretary Secre- Secre tary tan of the time Treasury a statement of the amounts received during the tho preceding preceding pre pt-c- ceding fiscal year from the sale and disposition of tho the products of or forest reserves or the granting or 01 leasing of ot privileges therein in each county in which forest reserves are situated an and thereupon the time Secretary of oC the Treasury shall transmit to the tho proper o of each count county a sum equal to ten per cent of oC the amount thus titus certified ti fled fied by the tho Secretary of oC Agriculture I as the tw total receipts from forest re reserves reserves reserves re- re serves In the said sid county Timber Sales Sk ott Gm-ott GIO il lug Mr ir Mondell fondel believes holeves that this should be bo enacted into law an and hopes to secure its is passage in the house The rhe selling of timber la In forest reserves is gradually growing and if the counties countes In which it i was wa situated were sere to re receive receive re- re te- te a portion of the thc proceeds pt s of ot sales salesI It I would at once cause causo the sale saJe of or a large larre amount which can cnn we well be he spared as the counties countes would in a manner advertise alvertise the existence of oC tracts of ot timber in their section an anthus and thus cause the tho sale of tho the same fame DurIng DurIng During Dur Dur- ing the last year approximately 90 was derived from time the sale of limber tim lim tm- tm h her ber r In forest reserves Grazing Concessions The money mooney derived from selling grazing privileges c however is what the Wyoming representative e Is aiming at at During the tho last Jast year more mom mOc than was collected by the Department Department Depart Depart- ment meat of Agriculture e for Jor grazing COIt con Coil COI- COI t f t- t v j o is a lher a large gc moun of or land now included in fore te reserves el es which will wl be he permanently wih withdrawn from lom the public tO aln anti and the title tte to which will wi remain to the government This If open to entry would w-uhl yield considerable considerable con con- to the counties countes in which it itI itIs itis I Is situated Mr Mondell believes that If it remains so that It I cannot be tal taken en I up and parcelled off Into homesteads s which would yield revenue in the form of nf taxes an and thus help hell to lo SUII support rt public pub lic lc Institutions it I can cn be made matio to pay payI something by the enactment of his I bill bi Into law |
