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COIN STATISTICS

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 9, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 47.

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COIN STATISTICS.

THE weight and bulk of the gold and silver coins now held by the United States treasury, form the subject for inquiry by a correspondent of a mathematical turn of mind, and he finds that the weight of the gold is 601 tons of 2,000 pounds, and the silver, 8,000 tons. Packing it along the highway as cord-wood is packed, the gold would make a barricade 4 feet high, 4 feet thick, for a distance of 335 feet, and the silver, if similarly packed, would extend 4,248 feet, or five-sixths of a mile. If packed in carts, a ton to each cart, the procession would be nearly 33 miles long, of which distance the gold-bearing carts would cover 2½ miles, and the silver a fraction over 30½ miles.—New York Telegram.