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    Lost Swift silver mine , 1775

    Lost silver mine that once belonged to William M. Swift roughly located on Clear Creek ten miles Southwest of Pineville , Bell County , Kentucky. Latitude 36-37 northwest 500 miles from Kent , Virginia . By the age of 86 Swift had gone blind and could no longer find his mine after a six year abscence but said he had worked the mine for many years. He said that inside the mine he left a sledge hammer with a French Crown cut into one face of the hammer , a sheepskin apron and a set of money molds that he had used to make French Crowns . Nearby the mine in three different places he said to have buried six million dollars in silver , thirty thousand dollars in silver , four ten gallon kegs of silver . Swift was shown the mine by an Indian named Marquettie he had meet in Kent . The Indian chose Swift as a partner and showed him the ore after Swift told him he knew how to smelt the silver. Several months later he found and opened a new vein close by that was richer. The smelting furnace he used was found in 1815 on Clear Creek ten miles west of Pineville . According to Swift the new mine was five miles South of the Furnace . The mines were never found .



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    six million dollars in silver
    Is that in 1775 prices? Silver was about $1.30 around then so 4.6 million ounces or 143 metric tons! It is about $17 an ounce today.

    thirty thousand dollars in silver
    23,000 ounces at 1800 prices-about three quarters of a tonne.



    Image didn't print figures. Giant cube is 1,000 tonnes. The lady is sitting on 100 tonnes so about 1.5 times that. Block next to guy is 10 tonnes- 15 of those. Cubes and spheres are one tonne.
    Last edited by Zippyjuan; 09-22-2017 at 07:08 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Is that in 1775 prices? Silver was about $1.30 around then so 4.6 million ounces or 143 metric tons!



    Image didn't print figures. Giant cube is 1,000 tonnes. The lady is sitting on 100 tonnes so about 1.5 times that. Block next to guy is 10 tonnes- 15 of those. Cubes and spheres are one tonne.
    He said buried four feet under the ground with a layer of large stones on top, So I guess in a straight line . He may have been mining it for as long as 15 years by the time he made those recordings in journal. I have no idea if it is legitimate . I know of no silver ore ever found there. Came from a pc of an old newspaper from 1940 I think the info was supposedly taken from the original journal .
    Last edited by oyarde; 09-22-2017 at 07:40 PM.

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    The guy who found the furnace never doubted it was there though . But even he knew where to look for the mine and never found it .

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    @oyarde, if Indians find treasure on the reservation, and its obviously white man's treasure, does the rez still take over their haul? I mean if word got out.

    i ask, because the whites keep their treasure in casinos (e.g. Senator Laxalt) so I thought it might have started with the Confederacy and old west bandits. Meaning there might be big hauls on reservations, where the USG can't immediately steal it, because they'll steal Swift's mine from you in a heartbeat.
    Last edited by Raginfridus; 09-22-2017 at 07:53 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raginfridus View Post
    @oyarde, if Indians find treasure on the reservation, and its obviously white man's treasure, does the rez still take over their haul? I mean if word got out.

    i ask, because the whites keep their treasure in casinos (e.g. Senator Laxalt) so I thought it might have started with the Confederacy and old west bandits. Meaning there might be big hauls on reservations, where the USG can't immediately steal it, because they'll steal Swift's mine from you in a heartbeat.
    Most large reservations have own police . Bureau of Indian Affairs Police ( Feds ) fill in for reservations without police . Most reservations in Indian Country are also self governing so tribal law concerning property could be different in each one of them. Nearly 80 percent of Indians in the US though do not live on a Reservation. So most have the same private property law as everybody else .

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    I see. There's really no chance then. A guy looking for lost treasure would need to be untracable, mute, or extremely self-controlled so no one finds out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raginfridus View Post
    I see. There's really no chance then. A guy looking for lost treasure would need to be untracable, mute, or extremely self-controlled so no one finds out.
    When I was younger I did a lot of treasure hunting and gold panning in different places . I usually used a cover story . Fishing , hunting , bird watching etc



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    It still works to this day . Usually when I am snooping around in Dankes shed in his backyard his neigbhors just think I am bird watching . They know I have permission because I always have a permission slip .

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    It sounds like a masonic fable to me, if you look for it make sure to enjoy the hunt since you might not find anything, I hope I am wrong and you find it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    It sounds like a masonic fable to me, if you look for it make sure to enjoy the hunt since you might not find anything, I hope I am wrong and you find it.
    Im picturing Mason pledges hiding in trees with nets, waiting for virgins in white linens to pass by the X on the map. Will they be fooled by oyarde?



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