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Show States Get Large Sum From National Forests More than 81,600.000 is due 30 states from the Federal Government as theii share of receipts of National Forests rying within their borders for the fiscal fis-cal year ending June 30, 1929, according accord-ing to a statement just sent by the United States Department Agriculture to the Comptroller General of United States. This sum represents more than 25 per cent of the gross recepits of the National Forests for the year, and the great bulk of it is owing to Western States, in which the principal princi-pal areas of National Forest and other oth-er public lands he. The State shares of National Forest receipts represent a Federal payment m lieu of taxes which the States would receive if the National Forests were private ownership, and under the Federal statute providing for the apportionment ap-portionment the money must be usee, by the States for schools and roads. "That the Federal Government allots al-lots the States such a generous portion por-tion of National Forest receipts is not, generally recognized by the public," says Acting Secretary Renick W. Dun-lap Dun-lap of the Department of Agriculture. "Moreover, the States do not have to bear a penny of the burden of National Na-tional Forest protection, administration, administra-tion, and development. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, the Federal Government spent more than $20,000,-000 $20,000,-000 on the National forests, including $10,020,835.29 for roads and trails, and more than $2,000,000 for purchase cf additional forest land. The great bulk of this expenditure went for development de-velopment activities such as protection protec-tion against fire, roads, trails, planting, plant-ing, etc.,- which will ultimately greatly increase , the productively of the forests for-ests and consequently increase their revenues. "Most of the receipts came from timber sales and grazing. No effort is now being made to push National Fores timber sales because of chronic ovevproducion in the lumber business. Ultimately, however, when overproduction overproduc-tion is cured, either by some form of control or by the great inroads made on private timber, there will be heavier heav-ier demands for National Forest timber tim-ber and consequently greater National Forest .revenues and larger sums to the States. . . "These Naional Forest revenues are perpetual. National Forest timber will never decrease in amount; it is a permanent asset handled by 'sustained 'sustain-ed yield.' so that when an area is cut over it grows up again to timber. Thus cutting and regrowth go on in in endless end-less cycle. Likewise, the industries based on the National forests are perpetual per-petual and a permanent asset to the comunity. Many such lands, in course of time, revert to the States for delinquent, taxes. All in all, both in direct revenue and in permanent industrial in-dustrial reveune development and watershed wat-ershed protection, the National Forests For-ests are contributing very largely to the Western States." Following is a list of the Western States which have National Forests within their borders, and the shares of the receipts from those forests for the fiscal year 1929 which they will re-Arizona re-Arizona $133,949.37 California 356,606.10 Colorado 124.715.29 Idaho 156,928.12 Montana 65,968.fc9 Nevada 23,130.77 New Mexico 35,718.97 Oregon 265,025.67 Utah 51,287.05 Washington 167,779.28 Wyoming 74.459.4C |