Show watseka nine A special from butte says A W mccugo the salt lake mining operator stopped in butte this week from a visitor visit of inspection to the wat watseka eka gold mine of which he owns the lar largest gesti interest nt erest it is near dillon and promises to develop into one of the richest gold producers in the state of montana the watseka is one olie of the pioneer mines of montana having been worked 35 years ago at first it paid magnificently that is above the foot level but at that depth the how of water was so enormous that the workers had bad to go back and mine on the surface in consequence the property has been literally opheres o with foot shafts and the shafts allowed to lie idle until filled with water NI although though mining t experts stated repeatedly that enormously rich ore would be found below the foot level no one with sufficient capital to work the mine could be induced to purchase hasp until mr mccune mccun e and his associates took hold of it when he started in operations the flow of water was r gallons cr allons per minute and it is now with pumps installed which can take care of 1600 gallons per minute they are shipping a ton of ore per day which runs 2500 and they are only down to the foot level mr mccune Ic Cune has 70 men at wo and will rapidly increase his force he stated today that he is confident that by the time he reaches the foot level they will have worth of ore in sight there is in addition a simply inexhaustible haus tible supply of lo 10 low w grade ore for which a 35 ton mill has been put in |