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we should designate it as energy operating through what we popu- 

 larly term "substance" or "material" in the mysterious processes 

 of life. 



THE GOLD MINE IN THE SKY 



Accepting gold as a symbol of value or wealth, the greatest 

 gold mine is located in the sky. We mean the sun figuratively 

 speaking and literally speaking the source of all life on this 

 planet, earth. And from the standpoint of soil-building on the 

 new frontier, the sun is the primary source of topsoil, and the 

 earth is the secondary source. 



Let us quote from the book To Hold This Soil by Russell 

 Lord* : 



Blazing hot, 10,000 F. at the surface and enormously hotter 

 within, the sun is earth's immediate source of life. Most sun 

 power goes out to other heavenly bodies or far off into space; 

 only about one two-billionth part reaches the earth. Even so, the 

 delivered energy averages three-eights horsepower, day and night, 

 on each square yard of land and sea. At noon, when the rays 

 strike perpendicularly, the sun delivers lj^ horsepower to the 

 square yard, upwards of 4J/2 million horsepower to the square 

 mile, or 7,260 horsepower to the acre. 



Windmills run by sunpower. If the sun did not heat dif- 

 ferent parts of earth's surface, and different layers of its water- 

 laden atmosphere unevenly, no winds would blow. The sun 

 draws surface water up for another run down the face of the 

 continents. It is the pumping heart of the circulatory water sys- 

 tem that keeps earth alive. 



Winds blow, clouds mount the wind, rain falls, and the lands 

 are replenished. Streams and rivers flash to the sea, clouds form ; 

 and the cycle continues. "All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the 

 sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come. . . 

 they return . . ." Ecclesiastes 1 :7. 



*Miscdlaneous Publication No. 321, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 under the heading of "Celestial Dynamics." 



