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Show HONEYBOY IS HARD LUCK MINE OF BEAVER COUNTY The "Honeyboy," one of Beaver county's "youngest" mines, is located lo-cated in an almost inaccessible region, re-gion, from a paying mine standpoint, stand-point, high up the steep slopes of Mineral mountain range east of Milford. With early Indications marking it as destined to become one of the richer gold-silver producers, pro-ducers, its development has been seriously handicapped by the tremendous tre-mendous task of bringing the ore to market. If future plans of the owners to mill the ore on the spot and ship concentrates can be carried out, the Honeyboy may yet become one of Beaver County's heavy producers. Developed from a prospect in 1931, Carl E. Roberts, R. B. Myers and J. Sim Murdock, all of Minersville, Miners-ville, located the mine in August of that year, after samples of surface sur-face ores assayed 10 to 130 ounces in silver and some gold showings. Cabins and trails to the "diggings" "dig-gings" were built in 1932, some further prospect and development work done, and in the fall of that year the owners leased the mine to the Burns brothers, who in turn subleased to the Hashimoto mining min-ing .company on a five-year lease. Stymied by the problem of getting the ores to a mill, the Japanese operators "turned back" the lease after shipping only two cars of oref which milled out 40 ounces of silver to the ton. In 1934 a corporation was formed with Sim Murdock as president, George Jefferson, secretary, and Sam Cline, Harold Cline, Carl E. Roberts, R. B. Myers and John Jensen as directors. The name "Honeyboy" was taken from Carl E. Roberts, finder of the first piece of float, whom the miners called "Honey." In 1934, after the incorporation, the No. 2 tunnel was opened, from which was taken 29 cars of ore averaging $33 per ton in gold and silver. Various lessors have had fairly good returns from ore shipped, but none could solve the transportation problem. A new tunnel opened in the late '30s and further developed devel-oped during the early war years follows a vein of low-grade gold-silver gold-silver ore and points toward a junction, some 400 to 500 feet from the present workings, with a five-foot five-foot high-grade lead vein which can be traced along the surface for some 2000 yards. On a north crosscut tunnel, extended some 50 feet recently by McKenzie, ore running 137 ounces in silver and $30 in gold was taken out, according to Mr. Murdock. No great amounts of Honeyboy ore have been shipped to date, but with relaxation of restrictions on gold-silver mining, and with prospects pros-pects of rich lead-silver ore when the lead vein is openeevthe owners anticipate installation of milling equipment and extensive develop-BMst develop-BMst work to tfc near futura. |