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Neil Brown, employed by a large Eastern syndicate, is sent west to examine and perhaps purchase a silver mine owned by Fred Harvey. Harvey is advised of the easterner's coming and ... See full summary

Neil Brown, employed by a large Eastern syndicate, is sent west to examine and perhaps purchase a silver mine owned by Fred Harvey. Harvey is advised of the easterner's coming and determines to "salt" the mine to insure the sale. In due course, Brown arrives and is welcomed by Harvey, who introduces him to his daughter, Mary. It proves a case of love at first sight between the young man and the ranch owner's daughter. Brown is taken out by Harvey to see the mine and so wonderfully well has it been salted by Harvey's henchmen, that he concludes to buy it on sight. They depart into the city to make out the necessary papers. In the meantime, Mary overhears her father's mine boss boasting to some of the other men of the clever way in which the mine has been salted. She determines to go after her father and his intended victim and warn the latter. Her purpose revealed to the boss, however, he refuses to permit her to leave the camp, and locks her in one of the outhouses, so that she cannot...