Show WILL LOSE MONEY how Britishers and Americans Will lie Affected GEORGETOWN British Guiana March iLIf the VenezuelaBritish Guiana boundary dispute Is decided in favor of Venezuela 39 out of every 100 Englishmen In this country will lose money by i and the same may be said of nearly every American living in the colony except the United Sfates consul British Guiana is divided into consul Britsh three countries Demara Berbice ando and-o I Essequ bo Practically all of the goldfields gold-fields are situated in Essequebo county coun-ty and nearly all of the territory which comprises that county is under dispute While the rest of the world is looking look-ing upon the question as practically settled BO far as it is concerned as to possibility of war the point of view here is entirely different Gold is her and to what extent may be judged from the registrations for the last three days and ever bit of it was taken out by placer mining The day before yesterday 673 ounces yesterday 308 ounces today 1000 ounces were taken out Owing to the volcanic tiature of the country and the difficulty experienced in getting to the fields long canoe trips being necessary up to the present time mining min-ing has been very crude As for the British claim that there are 52000 British subjects In Essequ2 bo county exclusive of government officials offi-cials it Is very misleading I a line should be drawn due south from the Morroccp river it would be found the actual settlers between that and the Schomburgk line would not number 1500 while in the northwest district on the coast directly south of the Orinoco Ori-noco river where the best quartz is supposed to exist there are not more than 2000 actual settlers |