Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1906 — Revenue of National Forests. [ARTICLE]

Revenue of National Forests.

In a bulletin Issued by the forest service it is asserted that the government is the largest lumber dealer in the country, and that It apples to its management of the national forest reserves the same sort of Ins!ructions which it rccoinmriul> to private luinlM'nncn, thus illustrating the fact that profit may po hand in hand with scibntifie forestry. It appears that during 1905 the total sales from cur forest reserves were $273,659. The sales for fuel ia South Dakota stand first Wyoming se.jond and Utah third. It is estimated that the cost of adminis.eting the forest reserve is Ihee. than one-third, of I per cent of Its value.