Honey Cave

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The San Saba News
December 9, 1920, San Saba, Texas

Big Honey Cave Sought in Texas; Engineer is Here to Locate the Place.

Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 1. —The quest of the golden honey cave has begun in Southwest Texas.

Wild bees, for 2000 years or more, have been storing it up in a cavern until 100,000,000 pounds of honey are concealed somewhere. Its value is estimated at a million dollars.

E. B. Rees, engineer, representing a honey refining company, has arrived here to take up the hunt for
the bee cave. If the deposits, centuries  old, can be located, a refinery will be established and the honeyed sweetness extracted and bottled for commercial use.

The clew, upon which Rees was sent into the Southwest on his search, came from a magazine "filler" which told of the existence of the honey cave in the "Devil's River country around Menard."

However, when Rees arrived in Fort Worth, he discovered the Devil's River country was not in the Menard environs, so he appealed to the local newspapers to help him in his search for the bee cave.

Finally it was located on Brady Creek, near the San Saba and  McCulloch boundaries. The honey
deposit is in a cave, it is thought, far above the river and Rees will go there this week to investigate.

Some years ago, it is said, an effort was made by enterprising West Texans to solve the honey cave
mystery on Brady Creek.  A man, carrying a heavy charge of dynamite, was lowered over the
side of the cliff until he was opposite the entrance to the honey cave around which the bees were swarming. He tossed in the explosive, but the fuse, incorrectly set, burned out prematurely and the dynamite charge cut the rope. The man was thrown to the bottom of the cliff and seriously injured. No further effort has been made to secure the honey.

Information to Rees is that the honey cave is centuries old. In fact, it was first reported by the Spanish
missionaries and soldiers who penetrated into the San Saba and Menard sections and founded pioneer missions and forts. The gigantic and aged honeycombs hang from the cavern roof and weigh tons upon tons. The honey has never been disturbed.

Rees has equipment for protection against bees in the event he finds the cave. A suit similar to a deep
sea diver's and equipment with air carrying apparatus is employed in exploring the bee caverns and caves.

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