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Post by kydave on Mar 15, 2007 20:13:27 GMT -5
For all you Swift fans in Ky. and Va. theres a good story at Lost Treasure Magazine. Com Just click on State Treasure Tales, then click Ky on the map!
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Post by kydave on Mar 24, 2007 21:18:31 GMT -5
Sorry i took so long to reply! The site is www.losttreasure.com/ Theres a different story every month so this one will be gone soon!
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Post by kydave on Mar 25, 2007 19:53:39 GMT -5
How on earth do you have enough memory space in your brain to store as much info as you do?? You remind me a lot of Paul Henson, he was like that! Tell him where you live and he would hand you right back a treasure story about your area!
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Post by beale on Apr 28, 2007 9:10:07 GMT -5
kydave,
Sorry about deleting my prior post. I wanted a new start. Now it seems like everyone is looking for a place to start posting. The best place is to go ahead and post.
My brother and I will be off to check one of Jonathan Swift's caches out soon. I found the site about six years ago. Sometimes it takes this long to get the courage to go do it again.
On a creek that flows generally north according to Swift the ladening on one of his pack mules was shot by Indians and they had to conceal the silver doubloons at the mouth of creek that flows generally north. I located this creek by followering one of Daniel Boone's surveying routes through Kentucky and West Virginia. I found the triangle pointing down to the treasure. I did not dig as the metal detector had no signal, big mistake my detector sometimes has no signal due to a connection from the headphones to the detector. About one hundred feet downstream I found the initials HH carved deeply into a large sandstone rock, the other one-half of the rock was broken off by the department of highways. One of Swift's crew by name of Henry Hewitt could have carved his initials? Don't know for sure? I need to find the other half maybe something else is written on it. Across the branch on the old trail my brother and I found an Indian Calendar. Does anyone know how to read the dates on an Indian Calendar? But anyway I thought it would be fun to check out again. I had all of this on video cassette tape but somehow misplaced the tape. I will let you know what happens when we make the journey.
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Post by kydave on May 2, 2007 10:37:06 GMT -5
They lost a couple of horses at the Forks of Sandy to Indians and buried their packs there, one near the Fork and another in a nearby Rockhouse. I would think these might be a little easier to find i don't know. From what i have read they mention burying most of the prizes about three feet deep, only a deepseeking two box would give a signal that deep, i don't know what type of detector your using. But if your finding carvings you must be getting close, good luck! I have an extra copy of Paul Henson's book if you need one.
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Post by beale on May 3, 2007 17:58:00 GMT -5
kydave,
I have been to all of the forks of the Big Sandy River. Lived within 12 miles of one of them, but I could never find the fork that Swift was talking about. It had to be one of them?
I have even been to the cache they buried on the southside of a large gap. That most certainly had to be Big Stone Gap or the Cumberland? No luck on that one so far. This the reasons I went searching for the branch that flowed to the north, it was easier for me to find.
I had a two box Garrett but left it at my last dig, May of Last year. Of course the landowner and no one else has seen it. I will have to buy another. The only trouble Garrett's don't make them anymore. Does anyone out there have a used one for sale?
Good to hear from you again, kydave.
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Post by kydave on May 3, 2007 19:03:41 GMT -5
I bought a Gemini 3 made by Fisher a couple of years ago for less than $500 from KellyCo in Fla. online which i thought was a good deal. I really don't know who has the best but it seems to work well, easy to operate, very lightweight and breaks down making it easy to store and carry thru the woods. But it work on anything smaller than a lunchbox, only a big cache machine. Actually i bought it to look for a Civil War dump at a campground but like you couldn't get permission to get on the property.
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Post by beale on May 11, 2007 13:31:40 GMT -5
kydave,
I have used the Gemini 3 on many occasions. It has one problem it can't tell you or show you the size of the target or how deep the target is? On iron rocks it would sound off. I would like to have a machine to show me what it is and how deep it is and possibly what type of metal? That would be a machine worth it's price?
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Post by beale on May 16, 2007 20:27:05 GMT -5
I found a machine that can do what I said above. It cost about $1250. plus you have to have a deep seeking detector about $650. and a lap top computer with software. Maybe $3500. to $5000. Well worth the price if it works? I will check it out.
If someone likes they can purchase my machine a MLL inground resistivity meter for $2100. It shows something is in the ground, where and how deep but does not tell you the size of target?
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Post by kydave on May 17, 2007 7:47:08 GMT -5
Yep the have some high tek instruments out there. I have seen the ads for the 15 to 20 thousand dollar stuff but it's whatever one can afford i guess or how sure you are that the treasures there. The shipwrecks would never have been found without the right equipment. All you gotta do is find one treasure to make it worth while!
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Post by beale on May 27, 2007 17:46:55 GMT -5
Yep the have some high tek instruments out there. I have seen the ads for the 15 to 20 thousand dollar stuff but it's whatever one can afford i guess or how sure you are that the treasures there. The shipwrecks would never have been found without the right equipment. All you gotta do is find one treasure to make it worth while! You are correct, kydave, 15 to 20 thousand dollars for a machine to locate and recover a treasure is cheap compared to the benefits of the find. The treasure in Danville, Virginia left by the CSA Government is worth over 2 Billion dollars maybe as much as 10 or 20. I am going to some how get one of those machines? I haven't got to go check out the Swift Treasure site yet but I will soon. Good talking to you, see you later.
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Post by beale on Aug 5, 2007 18:35:30 GMT -5
My research on the Jonathan Swift silver mines has led me further West. When John Swift said it was a considerable distance West of the Forks of the Big Sandy River and on a river that he did not know the name of, I expanded my research to go a considerable distance farther than everyone generally believes the mines to be located. My research has paid off, I located an area where Jonathan Swift owned over 10,000 acres of land, he was a silver smith in Alexandria and he was married to Desiree Ann Swift. The only problem I have encountered is that this Jonathan Swift did not go blind and did not die around 1805, he lived until the 1830's.
I think the Swift Silver Mine's stories a lot of them were fabricated from the true story. John Filson wrote the autobiography of Daniel Boone and Jonathan Swift. I have located copies of the Daniel Boone but I can not find a copy of the Jonathan Swift version? Does anyone out there have a copy? I can also verify that silver was found in the area surrounding where Jonathan Swift owned the 10,000 acres of land. Jonathan's other partners also became large landowners in the States of North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee as well as in the State of Kentucky. More later, got to go.
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Post by beale on Jan 20, 2008 11:24:46 GMT -5
I found a machine that can do what I said above. It cost about $1250. plus you have to have a deep seeking detector about $650. and a lap top computer with software. Maybe $3500. to $5000. Well worth the price if it works? I will check it out. If someone likes they can purchase my machine a MLL inground resistivity meter for $2100. It shows something is in the ground, where and how deep but does not tell you the size of target? Anyone need a machine that will go 130 feet deep to locate gold and silver for them check out the MLL or Mother Lode Locator, I have mine still for sale at $2100. I would like to purchase one of the newer and more costly models made in Germany probably $16,000. How about it anyone want to purchase mine shipping is on me to anywhere in the continental USA. See the same machine made by kellyco at www.kellycodetectors.com/gpl/ground.htm List for $9,995. On Sale $6,450. Mine is a steal at $2,100.
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Post by kydave on Aug 23, 2009 8:41:46 GMT -5
According to a recent story in Lost Treasure Magazine a new site for the Swift mines or maybe a "Vault" is a possibility in Kentucky! Not far from me, gonna check it out this winter. The whole area seems to be a big "treasure" map with roads with names like "Silver Mine Rd. " ! Very interesting! Seems a John Swift of Alexendria Va. did own the property in 1791 and gold was found with an assay done, sounds convincing anyway.
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Post by Rebel KGC on Aug 23, 2009 18:49:39 GMT -5
;D That DOES sound right interesting... I would check it out too, Bro. Remember the "signs"/"symbols" of FreeMasons & Knights of the Golden Circle... MAY find 'em around & thereabout. www.knightsofthegoldencircle-kgc.com/signs.htm
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