The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-04-16
MOUNTAINS OF MONEY.

If all the silver dollars in the Unit
ed States, were piled one upon anOth
en- like chips at poker table, the
result would be shaft eight hundred
and thirty-fve miles high And il
you toppled it over, it would reacl
from Washington to Chicago and have
enough to spare for thousands of the
dollars to fall into the Great Lakes
These facts, and all those contained
in this remarkable statement con
corning our money, were compiled
| by friend OF mine in the office OF
the United States treasury in Wash
ington, and they can be taken as the
official returns on what our money
does and may do, says the Ida Grove
Record Era
If it should become necessary to
haul all the gold coin in this country
to one given point it would require
one hundred and fourteen freight cars
each carrying a load of sixty thous-
and pounds to turn the trick.
These examples are merely proofs
Of the fact that Uncle Sam has in the
treasury at Washington enough mon
ey to make King Solomon's mines
look like old and empty wallets. When
It comes down to a question of cash
he has Pactolus, the auriferous river,
reduced to the semblance of a desi-
Gated mud hole.
At the last official count in the
national capital there were in circu-
lation in this country 327,329.15
pieces of United States paper mon
ey with total value of $1,S72,216,3S5.
Hha to To
100000, which is the largest accumu-
lation of gold coin in the history of
the world. 1t is three times as great
as that of Great Britain, and is as
large as that of Great Britain and
Germany combined, or of Great Brit
ain and Russia combined. The silver
dollars are floating around among
the people to the extent of $685., OOO,-
900. If they were laid side by side
they would make string 1880 miles
long. If anybody wanted to move all
these silver dollars, there would have
to be used 555 freight cars, each car
rying 10000 pounds. This would
make up train more than three miles
long and it would be so heavy that
it could be hauled only by twelve of
the most modern locomotives in the
United States.
Among the many money peculiari-
ties discovered in the treasury at
Washington is comparison of the
weights of silver dollars and paper
money. 1t is surprising to learn that
it requires only twenty and a half
paper dollars to counterweight a sill
YER dollar. A paper dollar weighs
twenty grains, and the metal Ape
grains. Moreover, paper money
grows. One million of them, put fiat
one upon the other, would form a pile
us feet high, half the height of the
Washington monument, if they were
brand new and fresh from the bureau
of engraving and printing, but, after
Icing in use for year, this same
million would double it's height and
would overtop the monument.
If all the pieces of United States
paper money in circulation were laid
down end to end they would cover a
distance of $1,000 miles, or a time
and half around the earth. If you
added to this string the 745,OOO, 900
International bank notes you would
have more than enough to tie up the
whole world in nice little package
with pretty double bow at the ends.
If patched together into a great blan-
ket all this paper money would be
equal to an area of 1855 acres nearly
two square miles.
Speaking in circus terms this
would be sufficient to make all the
tents that are used by all the great
circuses of the country. Furthermore,
the gold and silver belonging to
uncel Sam would permit of the dupli-
cations in precious metals of all the
elephants, horses, wagons, poles and
entire equipment of all circusses on
the face of the globe.