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Show Duchesne County Gets $16,603 From National Forest Plumb Duchesne County is to receive-$16,603 receive-$16,603 as her share .of the $170,038 national forest receipts to be distributed to Utah counties coun-ties for the year ending last June. The money, constituting one-fourth one-fourth of the income from timber tim-ber sales, grazing permits and other uses of forest lands, is the highest amount on record. Top county is Garfield, which will receive $18,865. Smallest amount of $460, goes to Morgan. Individual payments for other counties are a follows: Beaver, $1,900; Box Elder, $2,265; Cache $7,675; Carbon, $767; Daggett, $3,330; Davis, $857; Emery, $5,497; Grand, $1,593; Iron, $4,433; Kane, $2,276; Juab, $3,476. Piute, $2,555; Salt Lake, $2,-237; $2,-237; San Juan, $11,651; Sanpete, San-pete, $10,286; Sevier, $9,985; Summit, $11,187; Tooele, $3,-158; $3,-158; Uintah, $3,798; Utah, $15,-054; $15,-054; Wasatch, $13,485; Washing-ton, Washing-ton, $7,287, and Wayne, $2,523. Oregon led all states in payments pay-ments with a total of $6,029,382. North Dakota was lowest with $33. Under acts of Congress, the money is returned annually to the states where it is earned. According to the law each county coun-ty then receives its apportionment apportion-ment of the fund earmarked for expenditure on public school and public road programs. Range reseeding, new timber access roads, small watershed and other land restoration projects pro-jects are adding up to greater local benefits from use of the National Forest resources. |