Arizona republican., 1918-02-25
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A BILLION DOLLARS;
 WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
(Kansas City JournaD


 Mr Editor:-Some time ago I read an interesting article simplifying terms used in measuring vast money values.
 One billion silver dollars laid down in a single straight row will measure 125. 100000 feet in length, which is a little more than 23674 miles, distance nearly equal to the circumference of the earth.
 One billion silver dollars spread upon the ground will cover little more than 35S acres of land.
 One billion silver dollars will cover a road 25 feet wide and little over 11S 1-9 miles long. equal to the distance from Warrensburg to p miles east of Jefferson City.
 One billion silver dollars weigh 56,- 250,000 pounds. To transport this amount of money by railway. and each car should be loaded with 6O00e pounds, which would be over a millioA dollars to the car, it would require 937ls cars; and assuming the cars to be 36 feet long, and an allowance made for couplings and engine it would make train nearly seven miles long, equal to the distance from WarrensS burg to Montserrat.
 bank vault large enough to con- tain 1,000,000.000 silver dollars would require cubic space of a little over 50 feet and 8 inches in length, width and height
 At the intersection of Holden and Market streets in Warrensburg mark off spot of ground F feet inches square, cover it with silver dollars. | and it will require 10000 dollars. Then ! place the balance of the billion dollars on this base and you will have erected stack of column S33 feet inches high. This column if placed in a hori- zontal position would present a mass of silver dollars 12 feet 4 inches in width and height, and would reach 1 from Holden street to a point opposite the residence of Judge Ewing Cockrell. My last effort to comprehend a bill l ion dollars is a comparison with the lapse of time. A huge building is erected inside of which is an immense hopper, large enough to contain 100O.- | 100000 dollars. To this hopper is at | tached an arrangement operated and regulated by clock work, so that one | dollar will drop from the hopper every second, and record made of same. How long period will be required to empty the hopper?
 At the moment the first dollar is dropped, a boy baby is born in a domi cile nearby, and he wtll be named Willie; and some attention will be paid 10 ms development and career. Willie soon becomes a toddler and an inauisi-
 tive kid, and wanders over to take a peep into the big building. He sees the dollars dropping-one every sec
 ond. Time passes and Willie is of
 school age. As he passes the big | building daily he hears the dollars dropping, sixty every minute Willie
 completes the high school and enters college and graduates at the age of 20
 years, and the dollars are still drop
 ping. Now, it is time for Willie's name
 to be changed to William, who enters
 into some business or professional
 pursuit, and soon takes himself a wife. Ten wears later he finds himself at
 the head of a family of four, but still the old clock is running and the hop per is dropping a dollar every second. William concludes to pay visit to
 the big building, and while there. the
 old clock struck the long waited for
 signal as the last dollar dropped from
 the hopper. William looked at his watch. rushed home consulted the fam fly record in the old Bible, and took a look at the almanac and ascertained that his age at the time the last dollar dropped was 31 years. 251 days. l [ hours 46 minutes and 40 seconds ,1cx.