Morris tribune., 1899-12-16
RAILWAY TO THE SUN
THE SEA is A TREASURE HOUSE or
GOLD.

Untold Billions Of the Precious Motal-
1t Would Make n Carpet One ThOusand
: BIilss-It Would Make q GirdIe Of GsId
Coins Around the Equator.
It is little realized that the sea Is
treasure house of gold, 80 incredibly
rich as to far exceed the widest
dreams even of mad millionaire.
Although in every thirteen tons It
holds only one grain Of pure gold, its
bulk Is SO great that IT'S 400 ,O00,0 900 cu-
bic miles of water hold in solution
gold Of the value Of $5,126, 000, 0Oe, Geo.
GEO.
If this gold could be rescued and dis
tributed equally among all the inhSbi-
tants of the earth each man, woman
and child living would have fortHne
Of 81, 416, 665, and would enjoy the cem-
Portable living income of 32,S25 q week,
or more than the annual income Of
i've cabinet ministers Of the Arst class.
Let us coin in fancy the seas gold,
and pile our myriads of coins into one
stupendous column. Our tower Of geld.
each way. would soar into the clouds
to height Of 1929 feet, OF S04 feet
lower than the summit of Mt. Blanc.
To demolish and cart away our tower
Of coins we should require the SER
vices of 2-3 horses for every man,
woman and child in the world.
II We make a carpet Of our marine
gold we should have more than suflc-
lent to cover an area LEGO miles long
and 1873 miles wide; In fact, to plate"
with sovereigns the whole of Great
Britain and Ireland, Holland, Belgium
and Portugal, with a remnant of over
5000 square miles Of gold to spare.
With our golden treasure we could
make girdle Of gold coins around the
equator nearly eight miles In width; or
as wide as from the Thames to Ed
monton, or southwark, to the cut
skirts Of Croydon.
Similarly we could construct Q road
way to the moon 364 yards wide, along
which $50 carriages might be driven
abreast In comfort.
We could make a railway track Of
gold to bridge the 91,725,0O0 miles
which divide US from the sun. Our
golden track would be II IA feet wide:
and If in 1924, when George I had still
three years to reign, an engine had
started on its long journey from earth
to sun. and had raced night and day
over it's yellow track at the rate of
sixty miles an hour, it would only
reach it's destination as these lines are
being printed.
AS final flight of astronomical
fancy, let us construct two rails of
gold coins each 2 IL inches wide, and
on this track let us take journey to
Neptune, 2,755,O00,0O0 miles away.
We should have quite sufficient gold
Tor this purpose: but. iourneying night
and day at sixty miles an hour, it
would take us 5,242 years to reach
Neptune, by which time it would be
too late to think of the return journey.
To have completed our journey to-
day we ought to have started nearly
900 years before the deluge, according
to recognized chronology. We should
In this way have escaped the flood, at
any rate.
With our treasure of the ea VIC
could buy the United Kingdom, with
It's land, houses and all it's accumulate
ed wealth of every kind, $4,000 times
)ver, and we could furnish our nation
II revenue for the next 5000, 900 years,
allowing for reasonable growth; in
act, a single minutes income from
,ur treasure, if carefully invested,
would be sufficient to meet our entire
rational expenses.
All the gold current to-day through
nut of the world if collected together,
would represent only 1862 part OF
,ur myriad sea coins, and if the same
mount of gold could be produced by
ur minis every year it would take
hem 1,358,960 years to mint pile as
arge as ours.-Tid Bits.