Show I h Guiana Mines Yield Gold and Diamonds British Guiana has a total area larger than England Scotland and Wales together Yet the population is little more than or about two people to a square mile except in the cities Georgetown the capital capital capital capi capi- tal accounts for one fifth of ot the entire entire entire en en- tire colony's inhabitants Sugar raised in a narrow coas coastal coast coast- al strip against the sea by Seventeenth century Dutch settlers is the chief product of British Gui Gui- ana aria But the inland reach penetrating ing miles into the South American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean continent h has mineral and forest forest forest for for- est wealth practically u untapped because be because because be be- cause of the difficulty of transport t tation 1 tion More than ounces of ot gold and carats of diamonds t f have been brought out of British Guiana's jungle hinterland Exports Exports Exports Ex Ex- Ex- Ex ports of bauxite ore for aluminum now rival the value of ot sugar ex ex- ports But almost nothing has been done with reported deposits of ot manganese manganese manganese man man- ore oil and mica because the rivers the rivers the only lines of ot communication communication com cam into the mountains of ot the interior interior are are interrupted by a n sudden wall-like wall edge of ot the interior I plateau over which plunge some of the highest and most spectacular waterfalls in in the world which man has os as yet had occasion to see sec There are only 79 miles mUes of ot railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads in a region larger than Kan Kan- sas The whole colony's complex river system offers a mere miles of navigable waterway i 10 L 01 t |