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Show Dixie Forest Revenues Announced For Fiscal Year 1956 Counties which contain the Dixie National Forest will divide an estimated $64,473 which is their share of the net receipts of the forest during fiscal year 1956, it was announced by Sup-visor Sup-visor Albert Albertson of the Dixie National Forest. The $64,475 represents 25 of the money received by the Dixie National Forest from timber sales, grazing fees, special land uses and power. The national forests for-ests are required, under Federal law, to return this amount, earmarked ear-marked for roads and schools, to the counties in lieu of taxes, the supervisor said. The Dixie National Forest was third in the intermountain region, re-gion, comprized of 19 national forests in Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming, in total receipts for trie 1956 fiscal year. The ma-Jor ma-Jor portion of the $257,901.84 in net receipts earned by the Dixie National Forest came from timber tim-ber sales, which accounted for $206,840.35 of the amount. Grazing Graz-ing fees were next in amount with $49,083.43, followed by land use and power receipts of $1,-972.04 $1,-972.04 and $10.00 respectively. Iron, Garfied, Kane, Piute. Washington and Wayne counties will share in the $64,475 based on the percentage of the forest lying within each of the counties. coun-ties. The Dixie National Forest was exceeded in total net receipts only by the Boise and the Payette Pay-ette National Forests in Idaho which had total net receipts of $1,823,758.82 and $510,011.12, respectively. re-spectively. Total net receipts for the Intermountain In-termountain Region during fiscal year 1956 "amounted to $4,099,-035.47, $4,099,-035.47, Supervisor Albertson stated. |