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Show National Forest Revenues : Return To States The State Treasuries of Utah, , Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming will soon be enriched by $664,606.48 as their share of the Intermountain National Forests receipts for the Fiscal Year 1955, Regional Forest- , er C. L. Olsen said today. Under acts of Congress, 25 percent per-cent of the National Forest revenue re-venue is returned annually to tie l( States in which it is earned. Each County having National ForeS land then receives its proportion s of the fund earmarked by law for k expenditure on pubile schools and k roads. ' Returns to the four States from the nineteen Intermountain Forests For-ests were: Utah, $148,489.93; Ne- i vada, $39,607.32; Wyoming, $46.- 5 042.34, and Idaho, $430,466.89. The s Intermountain Region of the For- t est Service is comprised of the National Forests of Utah, South- si em Idaho, Nevada and Westers it Wyoming. |