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Show NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER SALE OPERATION I . - x . , n , ,,. - ,!., .i . miieL : .. ..-2 " V . . ii Last year, cash receipts to the U. S. Treasury from sales of national forest timber exceeded $65,000,000. This is quite an increase when compared with the $85,000 collected from the sale of timber in 1905, the year the Forest Service was organized in the U. S. Depart-' mont of Agriculture. Twenty-five percent of all money taken in by the Forest Service not only for timber but for any use goes back to the States in which the national forests are located. That money is turned over to the counties for public schools and public roads. The national forests, which contain 76 million acres of land classed as commercial forest, are the largest single supplier of raw material for the Nation's forest products industries. Last year the Forest Service made 24,000 separate sep-arate timber sales to Individuals and companies for a total cut of r . , . 5.3 billion board feet, about 10 percent of all the timber used in the United States. National forest timber lands arc managed so as to produce perpetual crops of wood. Timber is marked or designated for cutting cut-ting to encourage reproduction, maintain and improve the growing grow-ing stock and still safeguard watershed wa-tershed and recreational values. As the Forest Service marks its Golden Anniversary, it pays tribute trib-ute to the many stales, individuals individ-uals and companies who also are managing their timber -lands to produce perpetual supplies of ' wood for generations to come. |