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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23 December 1912
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15 October 1912
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28 August 1912
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14 October 1912
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07 August 1912
SILAS WILSON realizes that his business is being run to the ground, and that he cannot longer compete with the newer foundries unless he makes radical changes in his methods and employees.
14 February 1912
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08 October 1912
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12 June 1912
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