Show I British Guiana Mines Yield Gold and anti Diamonds I British Guiana has a total area larger than England Scotland and I Wales together Yet the population I is little more than or about two people to a square mile except in tn the cities Georgetown the capital capital capi capi- tal accounts for one fifth of the entire en entire tire colony's colony Inhabitants Inhabitant Sugar raised in a narrow coastal coast coastal al strip against the sea by Seventeenth century Dutch settlers is la the chief product of British Gui Gui- ana But Dut the inland reach penetrating penetrate ing miles Into the South American Amer lean Iran continent has mineral and forest for est eat wealth practically untapped because be cause of the difficulty of ta tation More than ounces of gold and carats of diamonds A have been brought out of British Guiana's Guiana Jungle hinterland Exports Ex ports port of bauxite ore for aluminum now rival the value of sugar ugar ex ports But almost nothing has been done w with ith reported deposits of manganese man man- manganese ore oil and mica because the rivers the rivers the only lines of communication cornn com into the mountains of the interior Interior are are interrupted by a sudden wall-like wall edge of the Interior plateau over which plunge some ome of the highest and most spectacular waterfalls in the world which man has baa at III yet had occasion to see lee There are only 79 miles of railroads rail roads road in a region larger than Kan Kan- sas The whole colony's colony complex river system offers a mere miles mile of navigable waterway I I |