With it you could build a pillar six feet square and towering 108 feet in the air; or a Cleopatra’s needle of virgin gold six feet square at its base and tapering to a point at a height of more than 430 feet.
A train of fifty-eight railroad cars would be required for transporting the precious metal, with two big engines, one at either end, to move the train!
For storage room the gold would require a vault 8 feet high, 20 feet wide, and 24½ feet long, and there wouldn’t be an inch of spare room!
Placed at one end of a scale the gold would need 34,666 men of average weight to balance it!
If the Corporation’s capital were coined into five-dollar gold pieces they would pave a road twenty-five feet wide for more than ten miles!
Stacked one on the other these coins would reach a height of more than twenty miles!
If this huge sum were converted into pure silver it would weigh 87,500 tons, with a cubic content of 268,000 feet!
This silver would form a needle six feet square at the base and piercing the skies to a height of 29,776 feet, or above the highest crest of the Himalayas!
It would take 2,200 freight cars to load it, and about fifty-five powerful locomotives to pull these cars!
This $1,404,000,000, changed into dollar bills, would measure 166,200 miles, forming a ribbon that would girdle the earth six times and leave two streamers each 8,000 miles long floating behind! A ribbon that would reach more than two thirds the distance to the moon!