THE DANGER OF PUFFING REPORTS.

Evening Star, Issue 3353, 18 November 1873, Page 3

THE DANGER OF PUFFING REPORTS.

A correspondent'of the Gw/ Star, writing of the LyeH and Upper BuJler, districts, fays " 1 lately heard the following Conversation between a mining reporter and a mining miahager. It was significant, and teaches its own lessons : —Reporter: * Weil, if the district does pot go. ahead it is not my fault; I’ve done my best for it.’ Manager: * It would, perhaps, have been bettor if-you, had left jt (done.’,. The mining manager may have been correct in his ,remarks, for .op doubt Inconceivable damage has been done id the mining interests both iußoofton and, in the Lyell by ridiculous p\i ffing newspaper* repofts. In our own district there arc two companies—the Alpine and the Exyefrior—which are at present ip may well be termed a precarious condition. It may.not be caused, by newspaper puffing,, but assuredly through this, same pulling is caused piuch disappmnfibeht to the outside, pubUc,: whose movements and monetary transactions are sometimes nffroted thereby. ThelxceL sior Company, for hail mode, a cer- < tarn .arrangement, with the, workmen employed on the mine,'that they, the workmen, should bo paid their wages out of the proceeds of the crushing. Acting on this arrangement, the-work proceeded, for threo or four and during this time milling, reporters circulated periodical reports, estimating the stone to go from three to four to the fon,' even'up to the lost day ci two of;the 'ehishiug.■ As the minowas bring worked absolutely on credit, it was suppused to. be in the interests of all concerned-that things sbfiald be made to appear as bright ns possible. 'ihe crushing was finished, the cleaning-up took place.and’tbe reshit was made known—thirteen: dwtri -or thereabouts t|o the ton. Now comes tbe consequence of this false showiag,- for- it can be-' termed nothing elsai Thai public are tiisigusted; the trading community are and the hardworking miner is. deprived of his legitimate Warnings, and, after working' for seven or ?ight months longer, is offered 4s -in tho.£ o enable him to satisfy the demand* of his blitcbors, and bakers.”