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Show USE OF NATIONAL FORESTS INCREASES; New Statistics Show 188,312 "Special Uhc" Permits in Force, with ' Rise of Business. I Washington, D. C, Oct. 4. There f were 18,342 special use permits in force on the National Forests on Juno 30 last, according to figures just compiled com-piled by the U. S. Forest Service to show the varied uses to which the public pub-lic is putting tho Government lnnd in-' volved. The list includes 59 apiaries, 2 brick ynrds, 31 canneries, 39 com-' cterics, 9 churches, 1 cranberry marsh, 32 fish hatcheries, 1 golf links, 43 ho-1 tcls, 1 nstronomical obscivntory, 10 fox nnd rabbit ranches, 1,085 residen-' ccs, 74 resorts and club houses, 3 san-' itariums, 500 sawmills, 103 schools, 9 slaughter houses, 57 stores, 16 municipal mu-nicipal watersheds, nnd 182 wntor-powcr wntor-powcr Bites, with many other uses. ' Fees collected on 7,895 of these permits per-mits contributed a total of $175,840.-40 $175,840.-40 to tho general forest revenue, but 10,447 of the permits were issued without charge. I These permits cover more thun 1,-087,000 1,-087,000 acres and 15,041 mil as of right of way, granted for various purposes, these figures including 172,131 acres for municipal watersheds, G,572 miles for telephone lines, and 80,593 acros and 1,919 mileslor reservoirs, canals, pipe lines and other irrigation and domestic do-mestic supply works. The steady growth of National Forest For-est business is shown in columns of yearly figures going back to the last century. Between 1891, when the first forests were established, and 1900, there were only six timber sales. The number in 1915 was 10,905. The number of free timber permits has " risen from 283 in 1901 to 40,040 in 1915, and of grazing permits from 2,317 in 1901 to 30,010 in 1915. Tho ' special uso permits, which were only 298 up to the end of 1905, were in-' creased by 5,057 in 1915, making a total during the last 11 years of 42,-L59. 42,-L59. Of these 18,312 are now in force. |