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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