Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1911 — Gold In Ocean Water. [ARTICLE]

Gold In Ocean Water.

Apart from the treasures which find their way to the bottom of the sea. and occasionally come to llaht 1 again, there 1s more gold in the seo| than has ever been coined into Such, at all events, la the oplnlon of Professor Wilde of Brussels slty. AH sea water contains a certain amount of gold, in the about one grain to each ton of Reckoning the total weight of all the oceans at the very moderate figure of one billion tons, Profesor Wilde estimates that they would yield gold to nearly a hundred thousand time* as much as “. . . Why, bless you, you can bathe in Gold.” - London Chronlcle ‘ :