An aged miner finds a rich gold claim, stakes it out, fills a sack with samples of the gold ore and starts back across the desert to file his claim. His water gives out, and, after days of torture, he at last falls in a clump of sagebrush. In a nearby cabin Jim Durkin and Black, his partner, are about to sit down to supper when faint cries are heard.
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Gilbert M. Anderson as Jim Durkin
Fred Church as Durkin's Partner, Black
Arthur Mackley as The Prospector
Brinsley Shaw as The Indian
Gilbert M. Anderson Director
United States 11 May 1912
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