Costs per camp for period July 1, 1934, to Sept. 30, 1934, inclusive, based on director's third report, appendix I 1 The amounts column is based on the total obligations reported to the Chief of Finance, U. S. Army, by all technical agencies cooperating in E. C. W., including the Director's office. The per-camp column is based on the total costs devided by the number of camps authorized (172). Mr. THURSTON. If it costs $1,200 per year per man, then for a camp of 200 men, at that rate, the cost would be $240,000. Mr. SILCOX. Yes. Mr. CANNON. Does that include the allotment of $25 paid to the families? Mr. SILCOX. That includes everything. Mr. CANNON. Will you segregate those items in your figures? Mr. HEADLEY. On pages 239 and 241 of the explanatory notes are given the obligations incurred during the fiscal years of 1934 and 1935 for the E. C. W. work. That is for the overhead, the facilitating personnel, the purchase of material and equipment, and for other purposes incident to the work done. Mr. SILCOX. This is all disbursed through the War Department. EMERGENCY FUNDS Mr. SANDLIN. There is an item on page 234 in reference to emergency funds. Will you insert that in the record? Mr. SILCOX. Yes, sir. (The statement referred to is as follows:) 3. Telephone lines for fire protection.. 217, 679 446, 462 5. Public camp-ground improvement. 4. Range fences, driveways and bridges, water development for stock. 353, 556 6. Dwellings, barns, and offices at isolated stations. 8. Eradication of poisonous plants from national-forest ranges.. 7. Miscellaneous construction, including fences and water developments for administrative and research uses, landing fields, small buildings.. 465, 947 446, 832 9. White pine blister rust control.. 86, 631 10. Control of tree-destroying insects. 11. Timber-stand improvement.. 12. Planting and tree nurseries. 13. Construction of buildings requiring legislation.. 20. Boundary surveys.. 21. Surveys needed for forest activities not including topographic quadrangles or General Land Office cadastral surveys. 22. Research: Add amount transferred to Bureau of Biological Survey for rodent control on National Forests. Received by transfer from Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (total allotment).. Estimated for 5 percent salary adjustments from fund authorized by sec. 21 (e) of act of Mar. 28, 1934. $15, 671, 645 296, 100 15, 967, 74 5 41, 418 16, 009, 163 $718, 899 10, 715 123, 206 2,500 1, 100 Colorado 399, 409 Connecticut.. 2, 180 Idaho. 2, 504, 780 Illinois Indiana. Kentucky. Louisiana. Maine. Michigan Minnesota_ Missouri. Montana Nebraska.. Nevada.. New Hampshire. New Jersey- 21, 980 1, 070 63, 326 Utah.. 351, 845 24, 000 85, 941 689, 697 782, 525 West Virginia. Wisconsin Wyoming... District of Columbia.. Total allotment. 151, 250 1,270, 657 246, 598 201, 443 1, 000, 000 15, 967, 745 Civil Works projects: Improvement of national forests and forest experiment-station units___. Loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas (plains shelter-belt project): For preliminary work relating to the establishment of a shelterbelt area in the Great Plains region---- Add amounts transferred to other bureaus of the Department_ Total allotment‒‒‒‒‒‒ Obligated, 1934 $26, 907 Estimated obligations, 1935 $964, 000 36,000 1, 000, 000 As a result of an Executive order issued by the President of July 11, 1934, $1,000,000 has been allotted (Treasury Department warrant of Aug. 17), from the appropriation of $525,000,000 for "Loans and relief in stricken agricultural areas" for work in connection with shelter belts in the drought-stricken areas of the prairie-plains States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla homa, and Texas. The work done under this allotment is of twofold character: 1. Scientific investigation and exploration into the localities and soils most suitable for planting trees. About $100,000 has been allotted for this kind of work. The investigations have been carried on by the Forest Service in cooperation with the Bureaus of Chemistry and Soils, Plant Industry, Biological Survey, Entomology and Plant Quarantine, and Weather Bureau. A report is now in preparation which should provide a scientific basis for the forest planting on a large scale in the prairie-plains section. 2. The administration and carrying out of the planting program itself. For this $900,000 has been made available. The work includes collection of seed from which the trees are to be raised, procurement of planting stock as far as possible from the commercial nurseries of the region; location of the strips to be planted next spring; leasing of the land from the farmers; the preparation of the ground; the actual planting of the trees; cultivation of the soil and fencing of plantations. All work is to be done by the farmers themselves. Cooperation of the farmers is entirely on a voluntary basis. Some 150 miles of such forest strips are to be planted next spring throughout the six prairie-plains States involving 5 to 7 million trees. These strips are not to be continuous strips, but adjusted to local conditions and arrangement of the fields. Since the planting of trees in the prairie-plains region is an emergency project which expires by the end of this fiscal year (June 30, 1935) no obligations or commitments have been made beyond the duration of the present emergency appropriation. (2) Projects financed through other governmental agencies (forest rescarch) Projects Emergency conservation work (authorized by act of Mar. 31, 1933: Allotment through War Department) research activities (as itemized below) to furnish information needed for properly directing the forest projects of the Civilian Conservation Corps..... This allotment is used for the pay of supervisory and facilitating personnel necessary for the field work done from E. C. W. camps on national forests; also for purchase of necessary equipment and construction materials and for miscellaneous expenses incident to the field work of the camps. The field work on the national forests includes construction of physical improvements needed for protection and administration of the forests, tree planting, thinning of young stands of timber, destruction of undesirable timber species, rodent control, etc. 2. Emergency conservation work in Alaska: 1934 1935 (estimated) WORK DONE UNDER THIS ALLOTMENT $225,980 163, 577 This allotment (Alaska) is used for pay and allowances to dependents of enrolled members of the Civilian Conservation Corps and for salaries and wages of extra supervisory and clerical personnel needed in connection with the work. It is also used for purchase of clothing, subsistence, supplies, and camp equipment required for enrolled men of the corps and for the purchase of construction materials used in the work. Classes of work done under this allotment include construction of trails, minor roads, bridges, water development and improvement, and miscellaneous administrative improvements; roadside clearings and public camp-ground improvement, estimating timber resources, and other miscellaneous work. The men engaged in the work are recruited from the unemployed local residents without regard to age. 3. Emergency conservation work on State, municipal, and pri vately owned land: 1934 1935 (estimated) $22, 417, 089 19, 615, 931 |