1 00:00:02,503 --> 00:00:05,437 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:24,125 --> 00:00:26,058 Mmm. What's this for? 3 00:00:26,127 --> 00:00:28,560 Because I love you. 4 00:00:28,629 --> 00:00:31,041 And because this is my engagement party. 5 00:00:31,065 --> 00:00:32,209 Now, remember, you promised... 6 00:00:32,233 --> 00:00:35,300 No talking about mine business tonight. 7 00:00:35,369 --> 00:00:37,636 Promise? 8 00:00:37,704 --> 00:00:39,638 I promise. 9 00:01:06,767 --> 00:01:08,500 Well, here he is. 10 00:01:08,569 --> 00:01:10,669 How did you ever pry him away? 11 00:01:10,737 --> 00:01:12,104 It wasn't too hard to do. 12 00:01:12,172 --> 00:01:14,383 Well, I told him if he didn't come to this party, 13 00:01:14,407 --> 00:01:16,519 I'd refuse to be best man and marry you myself. 14 00:01:16,543 --> 00:01:19,678 I didn't want to take that chance. 15 00:01:22,182 --> 00:01:23,615 Forget about being superintendent 16 00:01:23,683 --> 00:01:24,949 for one night, Gil. 17 00:01:25,018 --> 00:01:27,029 The mine will run all right without you. 18 00:01:27,053 --> 00:01:29,521 I sent the night shift back to work on the third level. 19 00:01:29,590 --> 00:01:30,989 You what? 20 00:01:31,058 --> 00:01:33,103 I told you we couldn't work the third level 21 00:01:33,127 --> 00:01:34,225 without new timbering. 22 00:01:34,295 --> 00:01:37,796 Dad, you promised no mine talk. 23 00:01:54,515 --> 00:01:57,549 Gil, cave in, third level. The whole shift is trapped. 24 00:02:42,095 --> 00:02:44,128 All right, everybody, stand back! 25 00:02:44,198 --> 00:02:45,463 Give us room! 26 00:02:45,532 --> 00:02:48,400 My boy. Where's my boy? 27 00:02:48,468 --> 00:02:50,335 It's all right, Mary. 28 00:02:50,404 --> 00:02:52,337 I'll find him. 29 00:02:56,343 --> 00:03:01,479 Mr. Holloway, you promised us new safety timbering. 30 00:03:01,548 --> 00:03:03,993 I'm doing all I can. Come on, dear. 31 00:03:04,017 --> 00:03:05,261 You ought to go home. 32 00:03:05,285 --> 00:03:07,919 It's all right. He'll be all right. I know it. 33 00:03:11,458 --> 00:03:13,358 You said that third level wasn't safe, 34 00:03:13,427 --> 00:03:15,127 but you sent the shift in anyway. 35 00:03:15,195 --> 00:03:17,029 You said yourself it wasn't safe! 36 00:03:17,097 --> 00:03:18,441 Get out of the way, Tregallis. 37 00:03:18,465 --> 00:03:19,864 You used to be one of us. 38 00:03:19,933 --> 00:03:22,134 Now you're marrying Holloway's daughter. 39 00:03:22,202 --> 00:03:23,713 Gil's doing everything he can, Tregallis. 40 00:03:23,737 --> 00:03:24,969 When? Like always? 41 00:03:25,039 --> 00:03:27,605 When it's too late? My kid brother's down there. 42 00:03:27,674 --> 00:03:29,194 Now, you get out of my way, Cartwright. 43 00:03:33,547 --> 00:03:34,779 All right, stand back. 44 00:03:34,848 --> 00:03:36,848 It's coming up now. Give us room. 45 00:03:36,917 --> 00:03:39,429 There's two of them. Move on back. 46 00:03:39,453 --> 00:03:41,386 It's Pat! Pat! 47 00:03:41,455 --> 00:03:43,388 All right, bring him on out. 48 00:03:48,829 --> 00:03:51,389 Pat, oh, thank God you're here. 49 00:03:53,801 --> 00:03:55,967 East slope. Third level. 50 00:03:56,036 --> 00:03:57,580 Every timber seemed to buckle at once 51 00:03:57,604 --> 00:03:59,115 as they set off a blast above us. 52 00:03:59,139 --> 00:04:03,041 Same as last week. Every time it's the same thing. 53 00:04:03,109 --> 00:04:04,676 Move out of the way. 54 00:04:06,447 --> 00:04:08,558 Gil, you're not going down there, are you? 55 00:04:08,582 --> 00:04:10,148 If I'd stayed down there where I belong, 56 00:04:10,216 --> 00:04:11,683 this might not have happened. 57 00:04:11,752 --> 00:04:13,663 Don't let what Tregallis said get under your hide. 58 00:04:13,687 --> 00:04:15,787 If my kid brother was trapped down there, 59 00:04:15,856 --> 00:04:18,523 I'd think of something worse to say than Tregallis said. 60 00:04:22,362 --> 00:04:24,996 Adam, you don't have to come down with me. 61 00:04:25,065 --> 00:04:28,233 It's my timber you're using, isn't it? 62 00:04:28,301 --> 00:04:30,368 All right, Bud, let her go. 63 00:04:36,876 --> 00:04:39,277 How do they stand it time after time? 64 00:04:39,346 --> 00:04:41,646 It's like living on top of a powder keg, 65 00:04:41,715 --> 00:04:43,448 waiting for that disaster whistle to blow. 66 00:04:43,517 --> 00:04:46,077 That's part of mining, Helene. 67 00:04:50,257 --> 00:04:51,901 Enter it on the report. 68 00:04:51,925 --> 00:04:55,037 Make sure each of the widows gets the usual box of groceries. 69 00:04:55,061 --> 00:04:56,261 Yes, sir. 70 00:04:58,565 --> 00:05:01,633 A box of groceries in exchange for a dead husband. 71 00:05:01,702 --> 00:05:02,978 That's company policy. 72 00:05:03,002 --> 00:05:05,203 It's a terrible thing. 73 00:05:05,272 --> 00:05:07,450 I'm sorry this had to happen tonight 74 00:05:07,474 --> 00:05:10,034 and spoil your party, Helene. 75 00:05:25,325 --> 00:05:27,058 Helene, this is ridiculous. 76 00:05:27,127 --> 00:05:28,993 It's 2:00 o'clock in the morning. 77 00:05:29,062 --> 00:05:31,263 Let's go home and get some sleep. 78 00:05:31,331 --> 00:05:33,509 Daddy, those women won't sleep tonight. 79 00:05:33,533 --> 00:05:36,834 They each have a man down there, and so do I. 80 00:05:42,208 --> 00:05:43,642 Gil. 81 00:05:43,710 --> 00:05:45,410 Oh. 82 00:05:45,479 --> 00:05:47,478 Oh, Girl, are you all right? 83 00:05:47,548 --> 00:05:49,480 I'm all right. 84 00:05:55,389 --> 00:05:57,867 Do you want to tell them? 85 00:05:57,891 --> 00:06:00,458 Tell them what? 86 00:06:00,527 --> 00:06:03,228 That there's nobody else coming up out of there. 87 00:06:03,296 --> 00:06:05,230 Not tonight. 88 00:06:05,298 --> 00:06:07,031 Not ever. 89 00:06:45,973 --> 00:06:49,173 How soon can you give me a report? 90 00:06:51,277 --> 00:06:53,344 It will be on your desk. 91 00:06:53,413 --> 00:06:56,347 Cold black figures against a white piece of paper. 92 00:06:56,416 --> 00:06:58,583 Five dead, two dying, 93 00:06:58,652 --> 00:07:00,451 five missing, 14 injured. 94 00:07:00,521 --> 00:07:02,987 But no slow-up in production, Mr. Holloway. 95 00:07:03,056 --> 00:07:04,856 Does that make you happy? 96 00:07:04,925 --> 00:07:06,157 Stop it, Gil. 97 00:07:06,226 --> 00:07:07,893 I'm sick of it! 98 00:07:07,961 --> 00:07:10,001 Gil, you shouldn't have gone down there. 99 00:07:10,063 --> 00:07:11,162 No, that's right. 100 00:07:11,231 --> 00:07:12,997 I should have stayed at the party. 101 00:07:13,066 --> 00:07:14,433 I'm a superintendent now, 102 00:07:14,501 --> 00:07:17,402 and the men I used to work with aren't human beings anymore. 103 00:07:17,471 --> 00:07:19,715 Aren't you being a little melodramatic? 104 00:07:19,739 --> 00:07:21,138 Am I? 105 00:07:21,208 --> 00:07:24,542 You... You should have been down there with us. 106 00:07:24,611 --> 00:07:26,044 That was melodramatic, too. 107 00:07:26,113 --> 00:07:28,679 I've had my share of mine disasters. 108 00:07:28,748 --> 00:07:30,981 But you don't have to face those men every day, 109 00:07:31,050 --> 00:07:32,183 or those women. I do. 110 00:07:32,252 --> 00:07:34,252 It's not my job to manage the men. 111 00:07:34,321 --> 00:07:36,254 Not your job? 112 00:07:36,323 --> 00:07:38,156 Or haven't you got the guts 113 00:07:38,225 --> 00:07:40,758 to stand up to them and order them into a mine 114 00:07:40,828 --> 00:07:42,472 that isn't safe enough for a rat? 115 00:07:42,496 --> 00:07:45,897 The Ophir is as safe as any mine on the Comstock. 116 00:07:45,966 --> 00:07:47,432 That's saying a lot, isn't it?! 117 00:07:47,501 --> 00:07:49,433 Gil, please. 118 00:07:53,773 --> 00:07:56,107 What were you doing down there? 119 00:07:56,176 --> 00:07:58,843 I was checking the timbering. 120 00:07:58,912 --> 00:08:00,245 I've got a man hired to do that. 121 00:08:00,314 --> 00:08:01,724 I know. Philip Diedeshiemer. 122 00:08:01,748 --> 00:08:03,293 I was hoping to talk with him. 123 00:08:03,317 --> 00:08:05,450 I run the Ophir mine, Adam. 124 00:08:05,519 --> 00:08:07,285 You sell me timber for that mine. 125 00:08:07,354 --> 00:08:10,221 It's worked out very well for both of us. 126 00:08:10,290 --> 00:08:13,325 Suppose we keep it that way? 127 00:08:26,406 --> 00:08:28,340 Would you like a brandy? 128 00:08:34,681 --> 00:08:37,982 You must be tired, Helene. 129 00:08:39,653 --> 00:08:41,653 Come over here. 130 00:08:41,722 --> 00:08:43,621 Sit down. 131 00:08:45,258 --> 00:08:47,191 Close to me a minute. 132 00:08:49,629 --> 00:08:52,189 I want to talk to you about Gil. 133 00:08:53,132 --> 00:08:55,967 Now, I'm as fond of Gil as you are. 134 00:08:57,371 --> 00:08:59,816 If I didn't think he'd make you a good husband, 135 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:03,141 I'd have fired him instead of promoting him. 136 00:09:03,210 --> 00:09:05,843 Gil's a superintendent now. 137 00:09:05,912 --> 00:09:08,980 He doesn't have to go underground anymore. 138 00:09:09,049 --> 00:09:13,217 Daddy... those men are his friends. 139 00:09:13,286 --> 00:09:15,854 You-You can't expect him to forget that. 140 00:09:15,923 --> 00:09:17,222 I had to forget it. 141 00:09:17,291 --> 00:09:20,258 It's a lesson I had to learn. 142 00:09:20,327 --> 00:09:21,793 Stay on your own level. 143 00:09:21,861 --> 00:09:24,173 That's my job, and I have to do it. 144 00:09:24,197 --> 00:09:27,431 Don't you think I have bosses? 145 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:29,467 My bosses have no faces. 146 00:09:29,536 --> 00:09:31,636 No hearts, no souls. 147 00:09:31,705 --> 00:09:34,105 But they've got a stock certificate, 148 00:09:34,174 --> 00:09:36,685 and if I get soft or sentimental, 149 00:09:36,709 --> 00:09:40,612 they use it as a club to beat my brains out. 150 00:09:49,456 --> 00:09:52,457 I fought a long time to get what I've got. 151 00:09:52,525 --> 00:09:54,558 And I'll fight to keep it. 152 00:09:54,628 --> 00:09:57,461 I believe Gil was thinking about preventing another accident, 153 00:09:57,530 --> 00:09:59,897 not about your stockholders. 154 00:09:59,967 --> 00:10:01,466 Honey, believe me, 155 00:10:01,534 --> 00:10:04,669 it gets pretty lonely up here on this level. 156 00:10:04,737 --> 00:10:07,571 The higher a man stands, the farther he can see. 157 00:10:07,641 --> 00:10:12,309 I have to do what I think's best for the most people. 158 00:10:12,378 --> 00:10:14,379 Try to understand that. 159 00:10:16,783 --> 00:10:18,883 I am trying to understand it, Dad. 160 00:10:28,962 --> 00:10:30,242 Well, good morning. 161 00:10:30,296 --> 00:10:31,796 How'd you get into town so early? 162 00:10:31,865 --> 00:10:33,475 I yanked him out of bed, that's why. 163 00:10:34,701 --> 00:10:35,633 Coffee? 164 00:10:35,702 --> 00:10:36,835 No, thanks. 165 00:10:36,903 --> 00:10:38,113 Gil, you still think it'd be worthwhile 166 00:10:38,137 --> 00:10:40,037 for me to talk to Diedeshiemer? 167 00:10:40,106 --> 00:10:45,009 My future father-in-law doesn't seem to think so, 168 00:10:45,078 --> 00:10:46,578 but I still do. 169 00:10:47,681 --> 00:10:49,747 That's why Holloway likes you. 170 00:10:49,816 --> 00:10:50,915 You stand up to him. 171 00:10:52,019 --> 00:10:54,886 Hey, who's gonna pay for this? 172 00:10:54,954 --> 00:10:57,955 I don't know... 173 00:10:58,024 --> 00:11:00,058 and I'm too sleepy to try and figure it out. 174 00:11:00,126 --> 00:11:02,794 I can't figure out who's going to pay for it 175 00:11:02,862 --> 00:11:04,395 on an empty stomach. 176 00:11:04,464 --> 00:11:06,631 Better bring me another steak. 177 00:11:08,702 --> 00:11:11,535 Mr. Fenton, Mr. Fenton. 178 00:11:11,604 --> 00:11:13,482 Look, I, uh, want to talk to you. 179 00:11:13,506 --> 00:11:14,605 What is it, Tregallis? 180 00:11:14,674 --> 00:11:16,674 Well, last night 181 00:11:16,743 --> 00:11:18,655 my kid brother was down in the mine. 182 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:20,945 I should have known he'd be all right. 183 00:11:21,014 --> 00:11:22,692 Well, I said things I shouldn't have. 184 00:11:22,716 --> 00:11:26,084 It's all right, Tregallis, I understand. 185 00:11:26,152 --> 00:11:27,597 Well, I-I wouldn't want to lose my job 186 00:11:27,621 --> 00:11:28,953 or anything like that, you know? 187 00:11:29,022 --> 00:11:31,267 You won't, not over this. 188 00:11:31,291 --> 00:11:33,224 Thanks. 189 00:11:33,293 --> 00:11:34,225 Gil? 190 00:11:34,294 --> 00:11:35,627 Same old Gil. 191 00:11:35,695 --> 00:11:37,039 You ain't changed. 192 00:11:37,063 --> 00:11:40,398 A-A-And listen, all this talk about shutting down the mine 193 00:11:40,467 --> 00:11:44,268 for safety tests and all that... don't you do it, Gil. 194 00:11:44,337 --> 00:11:45,948 Long as there's a hole in the ground, 195 00:11:45,972 --> 00:11:48,006 me and the boys will go down into it. 196 00:11:48,074 --> 00:11:50,419 We don't want to lose no day's pay 'cause somebody's afraid 197 00:11:50,443 --> 00:11:52,443 of getting a rock on top of the head. 198 00:11:52,512 --> 00:11:54,924 And Mr. Cartwright, I don't blame you 199 00:11:54,948 --> 00:11:56,525 for poking me in the whiskers, 200 00:11:56,549 --> 00:11:59,316 but next time, don't do it so hard. 201 00:12:03,590 --> 00:12:05,267 Have you seen Philip Diedeshiemer? 202 00:12:05,291 --> 00:12:06,958 The Dutchman? 203 00:12:07,026 --> 00:12:08,793 I don't understand that one. 204 00:12:08,862 --> 00:12:10,862 He's the only man I ever knew who could look 205 00:12:10,930 --> 00:12:13,097 a hole straight through you without even seeing you. 206 00:12:13,165 --> 00:12:14,910 Well, has he been around? 207 00:12:14,934 --> 00:12:16,534 He's been down in that hole 208 00:12:16,603 --> 00:12:19,436 since ten minutes after you left last night. 209 00:12:19,506 --> 00:12:21,372 Either he comes up for air pretty soon 210 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,318 or he's gonna find nobody here to work this hoist 211 00:12:23,342 --> 00:12:24,775 when he rings that bell. 212 00:12:26,345 --> 00:12:28,385 Will you stay around for a little while? 213 00:12:29,516 --> 00:12:31,360 Take care of this for me, will you, Casey? 214 00:12:31,384 --> 00:12:33,295 Gil. 215 00:12:33,319 --> 00:12:35,397 Oh, Gil, I've been looking all over for you. 216 00:12:35,421 --> 00:12:37,822 Not now, dear. Adam and I want to go down below 217 00:12:37,891 --> 00:12:40,424 and look around for a minute. 218 00:12:40,493 --> 00:12:42,693 If it were another woman I could face it, 219 00:12:42,762 --> 00:12:45,362 but to have a silver mine for a romantic rival... 220 00:12:45,431 --> 00:12:50,234 Hey-hey... Oh, Gil, please be careful. 221 00:12:50,302 --> 00:12:52,142 If anything happened to you... 222 00:12:53,272 --> 00:12:54,872 Off you go. 223 00:12:56,876 --> 00:12:58,809 All right, let 'er go! 224 00:13:09,489 --> 00:13:11,422 Good, sound timbering, Gil. 225 00:13:11,491 --> 00:13:13,257 But it just isn't holding. 226 00:13:23,336 --> 00:13:26,537 Philip! Philip Diedeshiemer! 227 00:13:37,016 --> 00:13:39,116 It is not usually so, 228 00:13:39,186 --> 00:13:40,996 but here in these mines there's such 229 00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:42,787 great variance of temperatures. 230 00:13:42,855 --> 00:13:44,955 There's a constant shrinking 231 00:13:45,024 --> 00:13:46,735 and expanding of the earth itself. 232 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:48,337 When I took my pick and loosened 233 00:13:48,361 --> 00:13:50,561 this hanging wall behind the uprights, so... 234 00:13:50,630 --> 00:13:53,598 You caved this in deliberately? 235 00:13:53,666 --> 00:13:55,066 You might have been killed, man. 236 00:13:55,134 --> 00:13:57,134 So... 237 00:13:57,203 --> 00:14:00,737 The important thing is five men were killed last night. 238 00:14:01,975 --> 00:14:03,852 You see, Gil, there's an unusual 239 00:14:03,876 --> 00:14:05,754 side pressure against these uprights. 240 00:14:05,778 --> 00:14:08,123 And without tower braces to prevent side motion... 241 00:14:08,147 --> 00:14:10,748 Philip, this is Adam Cartwright. 242 00:14:10,817 --> 00:14:12,617 Adam, Philip Diedeshiemer. 243 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:13,818 Mr. Cartwright. 244 00:14:13,886 --> 00:14:15,987 Hadn't you better take some time off? 245 00:14:16,055 --> 00:14:17,700 Get some rest. Have something to eat. 246 00:14:17,724 --> 00:14:19,223 Oh, the widows of those men, 247 00:14:19,291 --> 00:14:21,158 they have no appetite this morning, Gil. 248 00:14:21,227 --> 00:14:22,393 Neither have I. 249 00:14:22,462 --> 00:14:25,296 You mention tower bracing, Mr. Cartwright. 250 00:14:25,364 --> 00:14:28,132 You, perhaps, worked in construction, no? 251 00:14:28,201 --> 00:14:30,479 Well, I supply the timber for the mine. 252 00:14:30,503 --> 00:14:32,781 My father and I and my brothers, we have a ranch. 253 00:14:32,805 --> 00:14:34,438 And what a ranch, Philip. 254 00:14:34,507 --> 00:14:37,241 The Ponderosa, a thousand square miles of it. 255 00:14:37,310 --> 00:14:38,721 And wait till you see the house. 256 00:14:38,745 --> 00:14:41,779 Adam designed and built it to last a hundred years. 257 00:14:41,847 --> 00:14:43,547 Oh? You must see it. 258 00:14:43,616 --> 00:14:45,116 Yeah, yeah. 259 00:14:47,186 --> 00:14:49,632 There are so many things in your 260 00:14:49,656 --> 00:14:52,289 beautiful country that I must see. 261 00:14:52,358 --> 00:14:54,503 But how can I look at beauty 262 00:14:54,527 --> 00:14:55,671 when men are dying? 263 00:14:59,666 --> 00:15:02,634 Given time as one of the factors, 264 00:15:02,702 --> 00:15:05,069 there is no problem in engineering 265 00:15:05,138 --> 00:15:06,604 that cannot be solved. 266 00:15:06,673 --> 00:15:11,375 Mr. Diedeshiemer, Gil's told me a great deal about you, and... 267 00:15:11,444 --> 00:15:12,855 Well, I don't mean to be presumptuous, 268 00:15:12,879 --> 00:15:14,590 but if you'd care to have me go over 269 00:15:14,614 --> 00:15:16,680 your stress calculations with you... 270 00:15:16,750 --> 00:15:19,751 What I mean, is that, uh, if you'd like to use me 271 00:15:19,819 --> 00:15:22,953 as a sounding board, I've kept up with my mathematics. 272 00:15:23,022 --> 00:15:26,056 It would mean a great deal to me to have someone to talk with. 273 00:15:26,125 --> 00:15:28,492 Someone who understood the engineering problem. 274 00:15:28,561 --> 00:15:30,928 Well, I'd be honored, Mr. Diedeshiemer. 275 00:15:30,997 --> 00:15:32,975 Well, then you call me "Philip," huh? 276 00:15:32,999 --> 00:15:35,366 So we do not waste time. 277 00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:04,922 Come in here with your picks, boys. 278 00:16:18,578 --> 00:16:19,643 Are you all right? 279 00:16:19,712 --> 00:16:22,013 Yeah. Where's Gil? 280 00:16:22,082 --> 00:16:24,182 He was right behind us. 281 00:16:24,250 --> 00:16:26,951 Can you see him? No. 282 00:16:29,155 --> 00:16:31,089 Gil? 283 00:16:32,492 --> 00:16:34,592 Gil, can you hear me?! 284 00:16:48,341 --> 00:16:49,640 Well, what do we do now? 285 00:16:49,709 --> 00:16:52,510 We wait. 286 00:16:52,579 --> 00:16:55,346 Just as thousands before us have waited. 287 00:16:57,183 --> 00:17:00,618 And we think of many things. 288 00:17:02,455 --> 00:17:04,922 That is the final refuge of a man, 289 00:17:04,990 --> 00:17:08,792 when he's... completely alone. 290 00:17:08,861 --> 00:17:11,161 He can think. 291 00:17:11,231 --> 00:17:12,841 Get out of the way! Get out of the way! 292 00:17:12,865 --> 00:17:14,198 My brother's down there! 293 00:17:14,267 --> 00:17:16,200 Hoss. 294 00:17:16,269 --> 00:17:18,168 I just heard about it, Miss Helene. 295 00:17:18,238 --> 00:17:19,403 Don't worry none. 296 00:17:19,472 --> 00:17:20,904 Gil's going to be all right, ma'am. 297 00:17:23,243 --> 00:17:26,244 Please don't do that, ma'am. 298 00:17:26,312 --> 00:17:28,246 Everything's going to be all right. 299 00:17:32,485 --> 00:17:33,684 Sorry, Mr. Cartwright. 300 00:17:33,753 --> 00:17:35,720 I have orders to let no outsiders go down. 301 00:17:35,788 --> 00:17:37,588 Well, your orders just changed. 302 00:17:37,657 --> 00:17:38,756 Let 'er go, Bo! 303 00:17:40,226 --> 00:17:42,193 Wait a minute, boys. 304 00:17:42,261 --> 00:17:44,195 Wait a minute. 305 00:17:52,572 --> 00:17:54,772 Adam, huh. 306 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,774 Answer them. 307 00:18:06,719 --> 00:18:08,197 Get in there, boys, with your shovels. 308 00:18:08,221 --> 00:18:10,153 Get the loose stuff out. 309 00:18:11,958 --> 00:18:13,235 What are you thinking about now? 310 00:18:13,259 --> 00:18:18,229 I was thinking that perhaps after today... 311 00:18:18,297 --> 00:18:22,199 we will not let a mine fall on our heads again. 312 00:18:23,469 --> 00:18:25,736 I hope not. 313 00:18:25,805 --> 00:18:28,406 Well, there is a simple way. 314 00:18:29,809 --> 00:18:31,809 All we have to do is... 315 00:18:31,877 --> 00:18:35,479 never again go into a mine. 316 00:18:36,982 --> 00:18:41,752 So many people make that decision in life. 317 00:18:43,489 --> 00:18:47,257 So very many... 318 00:19:13,619 --> 00:19:15,752 No use, boys. May as well give up. 319 00:19:15,821 --> 00:19:17,354 They don't answer the signal no more. 320 00:19:19,325 --> 00:19:21,892 They're back of that wall of rock, but we're too late. 321 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,561 They don't answer anymore. 322 00:19:37,142 --> 00:19:39,076 Give me that shovel. 323 00:19:47,486 --> 00:19:48,752 Okay, bud, okay. 324 00:19:48,821 --> 00:19:50,754 That's good. 325 00:19:58,831 --> 00:20:00,430 Give me some light. 326 00:20:12,011 --> 00:20:13,444 Hi, Adam. 327 00:20:13,512 --> 00:20:15,446 It's about time you got here. 328 00:20:17,016 --> 00:20:19,283 Gil's back there somewhere. 329 00:20:19,352 --> 00:20:21,518 Adam... 330 00:20:21,587 --> 00:20:24,288 There ain't nothing back there but 500 ton of rock. 331 00:20:35,434 --> 00:20:37,368 All right, let 'er down. 332 00:20:39,705 --> 00:20:42,373 How are you, Mr. Diedeshiemer? 333 00:20:42,441 --> 00:20:44,375 All right, Phil, see if you can make it. 334 00:20:49,882 --> 00:20:51,081 Got him, Hoss? 335 00:20:51,150 --> 00:20:53,750 Yeah, I got him. 336 00:20:53,819 --> 00:20:55,986 Easy, easy. 337 00:20:56,055 --> 00:20:57,666 You might have a broken bone. 338 00:20:57,690 --> 00:20:58,856 There's one of 'em, boys. 339 00:20:58,924 --> 00:21:00,524 Let's get him. 340 00:21:04,496 --> 00:21:05,929 Take him out, boys. 341 00:21:07,066 --> 00:21:08,666 Here we are. 342 00:21:15,574 --> 00:21:17,607 You all right? Yeah, come on. 343 00:21:17,677 --> 00:21:20,237 Here they come. 344 00:21:27,186 --> 00:21:29,452 Gil! Where's Gil? 345 00:21:29,521 --> 00:21:31,700 Miss Helene, I... I want to talk to you. 346 00:21:31,724 --> 00:21:33,891 Oh, that Gil. 347 00:21:33,959 --> 00:21:36,694 He's always the first one down and the last one up. 348 00:21:36,762 --> 00:21:40,463 I suppose he's still down there looking around. 349 00:21:40,532 --> 00:21:42,452 That's what it is, Hoss, isn't it? 350 00:21:43,703 --> 00:21:45,069 Ma'am, let me take you home. 351 00:21:45,138 --> 00:21:48,405 Oh, no. No, I've, I've got to wait here for Gil. 352 00:21:48,474 --> 00:21:50,741 He promised me nothing would happen to him. 353 00:21:50,809 --> 00:21:53,144 He promised me! 354 00:21:53,212 --> 00:21:55,879 Oh, Hoss, oh, Hoss, tell me nothing's happened. 355 00:21:58,217 --> 00:22:00,817 Ma'am, I... I can't lie to you. 356 00:22:00,886 --> 00:22:02,798 I, I can't make it no easier on you. 357 00:22:02,822 --> 00:22:03,987 Then I've got to go down. 358 00:22:04,056 --> 00:22:05,589 I've got to see him. 359 00:22:05,658 --> 00:22:07,402 Don't you understand? I've got to see him! 360 00:22:07,426 --> 00:22:09,360 I've got to see him! 361 00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:17,935 Oh, Gil... 362 00:22:22,174 --> 00:22:27,244 Oh... Gil... 363 00:22:36,021 --> 00:22:37,455 Where's Gil? 364 00:22:37,523 --> 00:22:38,689 He's still down there. 365 00:22:38,758 --> 00:22:40,636 Well, go get him, Adam. I want to talk to him. 366 00:22:40,660 --> 00:22:42,727 What I'm trying to tell you is... 367 00:22:42,795 --> 00:22:46,797 What he means is... Gil is dead, Daddy. 368 00:22:46,866 --> 00:22:48,932 What? 369 00:22:49,001 --> 00:22:51,802 That's the word he was looking for, "dead." 370 00:22:51,871 --> 00:22:54,638 But it's a dirty word and no one wants to say it. 371 00:22:54,707 --> 00:22:55,906 Not here in this house. 372 00:22:55,975 --> 00:22:56,907 Not on this level. 373 00:22:56,976 --> 00:22:59,143 The stockholders might hear. 374 00:22:59,212 --> 00:23:01,912 Dead is a word for, for men who work down in the ground, 375 00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:04,348 not for people like us. 376 00:23:04,417 --> 00:23:06,395 We, we can't talk about a man who's buried 377 00:23:06,419 --> 00:23:09,320 under 50 tons of rock, but he's dead just the same! 378 00:23:09,388 --> 00:23:10,532 Oh, Daddy! Helene. 379 00:23:11,790 --> 00:23:13,424 I'll give her a sedative. 380 00:23:13,492 --> 00:23:15,212 You come along. You, too. 381 00:23:23,635 --> 00:23:25,902 Gil, dead? 382 00:23:27,673 --> 00:23:30,607 Well, I'll have to hire a new superintendent. 383 00:23:32,178 --> 00:23:35,712 Mr. Holloway... 384 00:23:35,781 --> 00:23:39,616 if that's the first thing you thought about, 385 00:23:39,685 --> 00:23:42,119 I feel real sorry for you. 386 00:23:44,957 --> 00:23:47,458 Well, I guess that should about do it. 387 00:23:47,526 --> 00:23:49,126 Thanks, doc. 388 00:23:50,028 --> 00:23:51,495 Mr. Diedeshiemer? 389 00:23:51,564 --> 00:23:53,330 I told you to get some rest. 390 00:23:53,398 --> 00:23:55,332 Now, you're pushing yourself much too far. 391 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,401 Would you rest, doctor, if there were a plague afoot 392 00:23:58,471 --> 00:24:01,304 and somewhere in that little black bag of yours, 393 00:24:01,373 --> 00:24:03,251 there was a pill you knew could cure it? 394 00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:05,843 Would you rest until you had found that pill? 395 00:24:05,911 --> 00:24:08,022 Well, my head is like your little black bag. 396 00:24:08,046 --> 00:24:10,948 Somewhere inside it, is a pill of information, 397 00:24:11,016 --> 00:24:13,016 long forgotten... 398 00:24:13,085 --> 00:24:15,352 A solution to these mine disasters. 399 00:24:15,420 --> 00:24:17,265 I have to find that pill, doctor! 400 00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:19,923 Well, you better slow down or I won't be responsible. 401 00:24:19,992 --> 00:24:22,926 Every man is responsible to himself, doctor. 402 00:24:25,998 --> 00:24:28,209 Does your head feel good enough to use? 403 00:24:28,233 --> 00:24:29,833 Let's get to work. 404 00:24:32,838 --> 00:24:34,771 Now... 405 00:24:36,709 --> 00:24:38,509 Mr. Diedeshiemer, I've been thinking... 406 00:24:38,577 --> 00:24:40,010 Are you an engineer? 407 00:24:40,079 --> 00:24:42,513 Well, no, but... 408 00:24:42,581 --> 00:24:44,393 Then I'm not in the least interested 409 00:24:44,417 --> 00:24:45,649 in what you've been thinking. 410 00:24:45,717 --> 00:24:46,950 Please go. 411 00:24:47,019 --> 00:24:48,451 Now, wait a minute! 412 00:24:48,521 --> 00:24:49,586 This is my home! 413 00:24:49,655 --> 00:24:52,055 At the moment, it is my office, 414 00:24:52,124 --> 00:24:54,491 and I want no interruptions. Please. 415 00:25:00,032 --> 00:25:04,935 Now... So we have... 416 00:25:07,873 --> 00:25:09,573 Why ain't you at work? 417 00:25:09,642 --> 00:25:13,221 Mr. Holloway, I refuse to send those men back down. 418 00:25:13,245 --> 00:25:14,277 You "refuse"? 419 00:25:14,347 --> 00:25:15,746 I believe the same as Gil. 420 00:25:15,815 --> 00:25:17,180 Close down a few days. 421 00:25:17,249 --> 00:25:19,916 Get a chance to make some proper tests and experiments. 422 00:25:22,021 --> 00:25:23,654 Casey, you're fired. 423 00:25:23,723 --> 00:25:24,821 What? 424 00:25:24,891 --> 00:25:26,623 I said, "You're fired." 425 00:25:30,495 --> 00:25:32,262 Tregallis? 426 00:25:32,331 --> 00:25:33,697 Can you handle Casey's job? 427 00:25:37,169 --> 00:25:39,269 Mr. Holloway... 428 00:25:39,338 --> 00:25:41,216 I never did want to see you shut down. 429 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,719 Like I said to Gil last time I talked to him, 430 00:25:43,743 --> 00:25:46,510 "I can get that shift back to work." 431 00:25:46,579 --> 00:25:48,511 See that you do. 432 00:25:50,683 --> 00:25:52,561 Another thing I'd do, Mr. Holloway. 433 00:25:52,585 --> 00:25:54,825 I'd order that Dutchman to stay away from the men. 434 00:25:54,887 --> 00:25:56,987 He wastes an awful lot of time. 435 00:25:57,056 --> 00:25:59,100 I'd tell him to take care of his own work. 436 00:25:59,124 --> 00:26:00,891 Leave our boys alone. 437 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,303 You're in charge. Go tell him. 438 00:26:02,327 --> 00:26:03,727 He's right upstairs. 439 00:26:07,433 --> 00:26:10,734 That's the problem, Adam, and it is increasing every day. 440 00:26:10,803 --> 00:26:14,071 The veins of silver grow wider the deeper they go. 441 00:26:14,140 --> 00:26:17,074 I know and the U-bracing that we use in a narrow stope 442 00:26:17,143 --> 00:26:19,454 becomes worthless in a 65-foot wide gallery. 443 00:26:19,478 --> 00:26:21,678 And it is not only the overhead pressure, Adam. 444 00:26:21,713 --> 00:26:23,753 There's a constant side pressure as well. 445 00:26:23,816 --> 00:26:25,096 I want to talk to you, Dutchman. 446 00:26:25,151 --> 00:26:27,251 Vertical bracing and cap pieces certainly, 447 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,353 but it would be standing so thick 448 00:26:29,422 --> 00:26:30,854 a man couldn't get through. 449 00:26:30,923 --> 00:26:32,589 I'm in charge now. 450 00:26:32,658 --> 00:26:34,169 We are very busy. And even 451 00:26:34,193 --> 00:26:35,804 the tower bracing you suggested... 452 00:26:35,828 --> 00:26:37,673 Listen to me when I'm talking to you! 453 00:26:37,697 --> 00:26:39,908 You're going to take orders, just like the rest of the men! 454 00:26:39,932 --> 00:26:42,499 But how are you going to get 65-foot timbers 455 00:26:42,568 --> 00:26:43,848 down a mine shaft? 456 00:26:43,902 --> 00:26:46,303 And I want you to stay away from the men, hear me? 457 00:26:46,371 --> 00:26:47,471 They're down there to work, 458 00:26:47,540 --> 00:26:48,939 not to visit with you. 459 00:26:49,007 --> 00:26:50,607 And there's another thing, Dutchman... 460 00:26:55,614 --> 00:26:58,782 I believe in a little formality. 461 00:26:58,851 --> 00:27:00,784 Now, where were we? 462 00:27:02,287 --> 00:27:04,688 Oh, yeah... 463 00:27:06,125 --> 00:27:08,058 Miss Helene? 464 00:27:11,297 --> 00:27:13,230 Miss Helene... 465 00:27:14,967 --> 00:27:16,900 I know you're sorry. 466 00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:21,071 That's not exactly what I was going to say, ma'am. 467 00:27:23,642 --> 00:27:26,576 Folks mean well when they say that they're sorry. 468 00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:31,315 It's like when my mama was still alive. 469 00:27:31,383 --> 00:27:35,418 I remember I used to mash my finger 470 00:27:35,487 --> 00:27:39,923 and she'd kiss it and tell me the pain was all gone. 471 00:27:40,993 --> 00:27:42,592 It wasn't really. 472 00:27:42,661 --> 00:27:44,594 It's just that 473 00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:47,931 now when I try to remember the pain, 474 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,560 all I can remember is my mama kissing it away. 475 00:27:52,671 --> 00:27:57,107 So I smile bravely and lift my head... 476 00:27:58,343 --> 00:28:01,178 and there never was a Gil Fenton in my life. 477 00:28:02,281 --> 00:28:04,714 No. 478 00:28:04,784 --> 00:28:07,050 No, you... 479 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,653 You can sometimes forget the pain, 480 00:28:09,721 --> 00:28:14,357 but... you can't ever forget the love. 481 00:28:14,426 --> 00:28:15,692 Never. 482 00:28:15,761 --> 00:28:18,106 There's gonna always be 483 00:28:18,130 --> 00:28:20,690 a Gil Fenton in your life. 484 00:28:22,268 --> 00:28:27,203 I remember I was in love once with a girl. 485 00:28:28,974 --> 00:28:31,908 As much in love as a man can be, I reckon. 486 00:28:35,481 --> 00:28:38,082 I guess that sounds a little funny coming from me, don't it? 487 00:28:38,150 --> 00:28:40,317 Oh, no, it doesn't, Hoss. 488 00:28:40,386 --> 00:28:42,385 She died. 489 00:28:44,155 --> 00:28:51,260 I know that my pa and Adam and Little Joe 490 00:28:51,329 --> 00:28:54,097 were sorry. 491 00:28:54,165 --> 00:28:55,944 But that just wasn't enough. 492 00:28:55,968 --> 00:28:57,946 Not right then, it wasn't. 493 00:28:57,970 --> 00:28:59,903 What did you do? 494 00:29:05,276 --> 00:29:07,544 I talked to God. 495 00:29:07,613 --> 00:29:11,453 He told me I was just going to have to keep on living. 496 00:29:23,795 --> 00:29:25,075 May I have permission 497 00:29:25,130 --> 00:29:27,898 to enter your mine, Mr. Tregallis? 498 00:29:27,966 --> 00:29:30,400 All right. Go ahead. 499 00:29:38,309 --> 00:29:39,943 Diedeshiemer! 500 00:29:40,012 --> 00:29:42,478 Adam told me to find you and tell you that, 501 00:29:42,548 --> 00:29:44,748 that number six had shifted. 502 00:29:44,816 --> 00:29:47,851 And that the tower braces were ten degrees out of plumb, 503 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,019 whatever that means. 504 00:29:49,087 --> 00:29:50,932 It means, Hoss, that we now know 505 00:29:50,956 --> 00:29:53,034 one more thing that will not work. 506 00:29:53,058 --> 00:29:56,426 It means, also, that we must still find 507 00:29:56,494 --> 00:29:58,072 the one thing that will work. 508 00:29:58,096 --> 00:30:01,197 Oh, he told me I ought to talk you into getting some rest, too. 509 00:30:01,266 --> 00:30:03,645 Well, he may have said it, 510 00:30:03,669 --> 00:30:06,436 but he didn't mean for me to do it. 511 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:09,773 But it would be good. 512 00:30:09,841 --> 00:30:11,541 So good. 513 00:30:11,610 --> 00:30:14,210 Stretch out for a while... 514 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:17,447 Close my eyes against the sun 515 00:30:17,516 --> 00:30:20,617 and feel the life of the earth beneath me. 516 00:30:22,855 --> 00:30:25,489 But I would feel only the death, Hoss. 517 00:30:27,025 --> 00:30:28,458 Only the death. 518 00:30:28,526 --> 00:30:30,794 You feel all right, Mr. Diedeshiemer? 519 00:30:30,862 --> 00:30:33,697 "All right"? I don't know. 520 00:30:35,033 --> 00:30:37,593 That is a relative question, no? 521 00:30:40,205 --> 00:30:44,775 I know only that my head is so full of vertical braces 522 00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:47,010 and cross braces and cap pieces 523 00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:49,123 and stulls and timbers, that my brain 524 00:30:49,147 --> 00:30:52,482 is like a bee swarm of unrelated facts, 525 00:30:52,551 --> 00:30:56,653 buzzing and churning, and working within a hive. 526 00:31:00,059 --> 00:31:04,094 A honeycomb... A honeycomb! Sir? 527 00:31:04,162 --> 00:31:05,941 I have it, Hoss! I have it! 528 00:31:05,965 --> 00:31:07,897 You got what? 529 00:31:07,967 --> 00:31:10,600 Go get me some one-inch boards, 530 00:31:10,669 --> 00:31:12,780 soft pine that I can cut with a jackknife. 531 00:31:12,804 --> 00:31:14,104 Go bring them to my room. 532 00:31:14,173 --> 00:31:15,772 I go get Adam. 533 00:31:19,345 --> 00:31:21,411 Why did I not see this, Adam? 534 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,114 Each surface bearing on the other. 535 00:31:24,183 --> 00:31:27,584 The ratio of strength of each side of a honeycomb 536 00:31:27,652 --> 00:31:29,586 to the combined weight of the honey. 537 00:31:30,689 --> 00:31:32,789 Gently now. Gently. 538 00:31:32,858 --> 00:31:34,624 Come. 539 00:31:34,693 --> 00:31:36,426 Thank you, Hoss. 540 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,299 Now what in the blazes? 541 00:31:42,368 --> 00:31:44,012 The solution, Mr. Holloway. 542 00:31:44,036 --> 00:31:46,314 The solution to every cave-in 543 00:31:46,338 --> 00:31:48,850 and slippage problem in the Comstock mines. 544 00:31:48,874 --> 00:31:50,018 Hoss, please. 545 00:31:50,042 --> 00:31:52,602 Clean place on the table. 546 00:31:54,213 --> 00:31:56,146 Thank you. 547 00:31:57,649 --> 00:31:59,894 Miss Helene, look here what Mr. Diedeshiemer and Adam built. 548 00:31:59,918 --> 00:32:01,396 Show 'em how it works, Mr. Diedeshiemer. 549 00:32:01,420 --> 00:32:04,854 You mean that's a system of mine bracing? 550 00:32:04,924 --> 00:32:07,369 It's the most perfect system I've ever seen in my whole life. 551 00:32:07,393 --> 00:32:09,092 Are you such an expert? 552 00:32:09,161 --> 00:32:10,928 No, but Mr. Diedeshiemer is. 553 00:32:10,996 --> 00:32:12,807 Philip, why don't you explain the principle? 554 00:32:12,831 --> 00:32:14,976 You see, Mr. Holloway... I can see the principle. 555 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,668 A square, open-sided, tower-bracing box, 556 00:32:18,737 --> 00:32:22,039 bearing equal pressure from all angles. 557 00:32:22,107 --> 00:32:25,675 Mm-hmm, and I suppose as the stope is dug wider, 558 00:32:25,744 --> 00:32:28,545 you propose to add another box. 559 00:32:28,613 --> 00:32:30,213 You can add them above, too. 560 00:32:30,282 --> 00:32:31,927 You can even build a floor in it. 561 00:32:31,951 --> 00:32:33,883 Very interesting, gentlemen. 562 00:32:33,953 --> 00:32:35,953 And very expensive. 563 00:32:36,021 --> 00:32:38,455 We can't use it. 564 00:32:38,523 --> 00:32:42,459 Dad... aren't you even going to consider it? 565 00:32:42,527 --> 00:32:43,626 But look at it, honey. 566 00:32:43,695 --> 00:32:44,962 It's a child's toy, 567 00:32:45,030 --> 00:32:46,863 a plaything of an impractical dreamer. 568 00:32:58,143 --> 00:33:00,121 You didn't even give them a chance. 569 00:33:00,145 --> 00:33:01,577 A chance to what? 570 00:33:01,647 --> 00:33:04,681 Play with toys while I've got a mine to run? 571 00:33:04,750 --> 00:33:06,683 You think I'm going to rip out the timbering 572 00:33:06,752 --> 00:33:09,418 I've got in that mine to try some crazy, new idea? 573 00:33:09,487 --> 00:33:11,465 But the timbering system you have is no good. 574 00:33:11,489 --> 00:33:14,490 We've been operating successfully with it for a long time now. 575 00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:18,094 Can't you understand I've got stockholders to think about? 576 00:33:18,163 --> 00:33:20,263 Oh, yes, I understand. 577 00:33:21,399 --> 00:33:23,667 You and your faceless stockholders. 578 00:33:23,735 --> 00:33:26,602 Well, I have somebody to think about, too. 579 00:33:26,672 --> 00:33:30,774 Only he had a face and a body and arms to hold me with. 580 00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:33,655 And he's buried under 50 tons of rock, and you put him there! 581 00:33:33,679 --> 00:33:35,611 Helene! Wait a minute. 582 00:33:35,681 --> 00:33:36,780 Where are you going? 583 00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:38,526 Where do the rest of the mine widows go? 584 00:33:38,550 --> 00:33:40,416 If you'd only listen to me. 585 00:33:40,485 --> 00:33:43,045 I'm through listening to you, Father. 586 00:33:44,522 --> 00:33:48,124 And don't forget to send me my box of groceries. 587 00:33:55,133 --> 00:33:57,067 Oh. 588 00:34:00,706 --> 00:34:02,638 We've been looking for you. 589 00:34:02,708 --> 00:34:05,075 Oh, I've been looking for myself, Adam. 590 00:34:06,477 --> 00:34:08,589 Yeah, this new model's coming along great. 591 00:34:08,613 --> 00:34:10,780 Well, I have created a good thing. 592 00:34:10,849 --> 00:34:12,449 But that is all it is... 593 00:34:12,517 --> 00:34:15,218 A thing, a handful of smoke. 594 00:34:15,287 --> 00:34:18,821 What good is it to write a book, if nobody reads it? 595 00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:22,392 Or to compose a song, if nobody ever sings it? 596 00:34:22,461 --> 00:34:25,996 Or to invent a new way of timbering a mine, 597 00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:27,764 if it is not used? 598 00:34:27,833 --> 00:34:28,833 Don't you worry. 599 00:34:28,901 --> 00:34:29,911 It'll be used, all right. 600 00:34:29,935 --> 00:34:32,602 When? When?! 601 00:34:32,671 --> 00:34:35,050 When another hundred men have died needlessly? 602 00:34:35,074 --> 00:34:38,753 It's such a radical departure from anything we've done before. 603 00:34:38,777 --> 00:34:41,089 Just take time to sell it to anyone. 604 00:34:41,113 --> 00:34:44,847 Only the dead have time to wait, Adam. 605 00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:46,895 And we are concerned with the living. 606 00:34:46,919 --> 00:34:50,453 Well, the Ophir isn't the only mine on the Comstock. 607 00:34:50,522 --> 00:34:53,056 There's the, uh, Yellow Jacket, 608 00:34:53,125 --> 00:34:55,392 Gould and Curry, and the Mexican. 609 00:34:55,460 --> 00:34:56,559 We know the owners. 610 00:34:56,628 --> 00:34:58,439 We've sold timber to all of them. 611 00:34:58,463 --> 00:35:00,663 All we have to do is sell one of them the idea. 612 00:35:00,732 --> 00:35:03,200 Look, I am not a fishmonger, Adam, 613 00:35:03,268 --> 00:35:05,568 hawking a product on the streets. 614 00:35:05,637 --> 00:35:07,881 Well, then you let me worry about that end of it. 615 00:35:07,905 --> 00:35:10,465 You just finish this new model. 616 00:35:10,542 --> 00:35:12,509 Looks pretty elaborate. 617 00:35:12,577 --> 00:35:13,887 Oh, it's quite simple, really. 618 00:35:13,911 --> 00:35:16,712 A series of cribs, each surface bearing on the other. 619 00:35:16,781 --> 00:35:18,392 Now, that takes care of your side motion, 620 00:35:18,416 --> 00:35:19,961 which has been one of your big problems. 621 00:35:19,985 --> 00:35:22,085 Now, also, you see, with the wide veins 622 00:35:22,153 --> 00:35:23,920 that you're starting to hit, you can timber 623 00:35:23,989 --> 00:35:26,422 as you stope in merely by adding another crib. 624 00:35:26,492 --> 00:35:27,924 Now, the same holds 625 00:35:27,993 --> 00:35:29,971 true with working up above or down below, 626 00:35:29,995 --> 00:35:32,395 which is an impossibility with your present timbering. 627 00:35:32,464 --> 00:35:34,309 Now, here, you could have an ore shoot 628 00:35:34,333 --> 00:35:36,699 running diagonally right up here through the sets. 629 00:35:36,768 --> 00:35:38,335 Any idea of the cost? 630 00:35:38,403 --> 00:35:39,647 Well, really hadn't gone into it. 631 00:35:39,671 --> 00:35:41,482 I think Mr. Diedeshiemer was more concerned 632 00:35:41,506 --> 00:35:43,206 with safety rather than cost. 633 00:35:43,275 --> 00:35:46,109 Yeah, I'd heard that he was pretty much of a dreamer. 634 00:35:46,178 --> 00:35:48,344 Well, thanks for showing it to us, Adam. 635 00:35:48,413 --> 00:35:49,812 Hey! 636 00:35:49,882 --> 00:35:51,826 Ain't you even going to let him finish telling you about it? 637 00:35:51,850 --> 00:35:53,916 Oh, I've seen enough to recognize the fact 638 00:35:53,985 --> 00:35:55,852 that the cost would be prohibitive. 639 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,554 I'm afraid you'll have to figure out 640 00:35:57,622 --> 00:35:59,166 some other way of selling timber, Adam. 641 00:35:59,190 --> 00:36:01,190 You mean to tell me you think that's all Adam 642 00:36:01,259 --> 00:36:03,103 and Mr. Diedeshiemer have been doing day and night, 643 00:36:03,127 --> 00:36:05,127 is figuring out another way to sell timber? 644 00:36:05,196 --> 00:36:06,796 Oh, stay out of it, Hoss. 645 00:36:06,865 --> 00:36:08,197 I won't stay out of it. 646 00:36:08,266 --> 00:36:10,177 I don't like what this woodpecker's saying to you. 647 00:36:10,201 --> 00:36:11,934 Oh, really, now. 648 00:36:12,003 --> 00:36:14,237 We don't have to pretend with each other. 649 00:36:14,305 --> 00:36:16,116 We're in the mining business to make money 650 00:36:16,140 --> 00:36:18,152 and you should be able to understand that. 651 00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:20,142 No Cartwright ever made a move 652 00:36:20,211 --> 00:36:22,545 unless there was a dollar in it for him someplace. 653 00:36:22,614 --> 00:36:24,313 Mister, you're the biggest 654 00:36:24,383 --> 00:36:26,182 flannel-mouth liar on the Comstock. 655 00:36:27,652 --> 00:36:28,852 Do you know who I am? 656 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,331 I sure do. And you do, too, 657 00:36:30,355 --> 00:36:31,766 'cause I just got through telling you. 658 00:36:31,790 --> 00:36:33,701 My brother isn't the world's finest diplomat, 659 00:36:33,725 --> 00:36:36,426 but he's managed to express my own feelings pretty accurately. 660 00:36:36,494 --> 00:36:40,430 Well... It might work. 661 00:36:40,498 --> 00:36:42,243 Sure, but the system we're using now 662 00:36:42,267 --> 00:36:44,145 can be put in for one tenth the cost. 663 00:36:44,169 --> 00:36:46,447 Why did Holloway ever hire that Dutchman in the first place? 664 00:36:46,471 --> 00:36:48,391 Oh, now, don't sell Holloway short. 665 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,017 He hires this safety engineer 666 00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:51,819 and the crusaders leave him alone. 667 00:36:51,843 --> 00:36:53,988 I know, but now he's come up with this fantastic idea... 668 00:36:54,012 --> 00:36:55,957 You don't find Holloway using it, do you? 669 00:36:55,981 --> 00:36:58,949 Well, is there anybody else we can talk to, Adam? 670 00:36:59,017 --> 00:37:00,828 No, that's about all of them. 671 00:37:00,852 --> 00:37:02,953 Besides I'm tired of talking. 672 00:37:03,021 --> 00:37:05,055 You ain't gonna give up, are you? 673 00:37:05,123 --> 00:37:06,789 No, I said, "I'm tired of talking." 674 00:37:06,858 --> 00:37:08,602 Well, what are we going to do? 675 00:37:08,626 --> 00:37:10,226 Well, what do the Cartwrights always do 676 00:37:10,295 --> 00:37:11,439 when it comes right down to it? 677 00:37:11,463 --> 00:37:12,895 We'll do it ourselves. 678 00:37:12,965 --> 00:37:15,009 You mean we're going to make a big one of these things 679 00:37:15,033 --> 00:37:17,912 and stick it down in old Holloway's mine without even telling him about it? 680 00:37:17,936 --> 00:37:20,403 Why tell him? He'll know it's there when he sees it tomorrow. 681 00:37:21,606 --> 00:37:24,240 "Tomorrow"? I said "tomorrow." 682 00:37:24,309 --> 00:37:26,421 Adam, I heard you and Mr. Diedeshiemer talking 683 00:37:26,445 --> 00:37:28,722 and them timbers are big; they got to be milled and cut. 684 00:37:28,746 --> 00:37:30,391 How you gonna do all that by tomorrow? 685 00:37:30,415 --> 00:37:32,382 Well, now, we own a sawmill, don't we? 686 00:37:32,451 --> 00:37:34,517 Now, we'll just give this job to our younger brother 687 00:37:34,586 --> 00:37:36,586 and tell him it's impossible to do. 688 00:37:36,654 --> 00:37:39,214 Yeah, that ought to do it. 689 00:37:43,728 --> 00:37:45,706 "We'll get started first thing in the morning," that's what old Adam said. 690 00:37:45,730 --> 00:37:47,041 And we will, too. You wait and see. 691 00:37:47,065 --> 00:37:49,210 When my pa and Adam and my younger brother, Little Joe, 692 00:37:49,234 --> 00:37:50,678 put their head to something, it gets done. 693 00:37:50,702 --> 00:37:55,371 You're very proud of your family, aren't you, Hoss? 694 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,573 Yes, sir, I sure am. 695 00:37:57,643 --> 00:38:01,477 Oh, it's a fine thing to have a strong family. 696 00:38:01,546 --> 00:38:03,546 Yes, sir. 697 00:38:03,615 --> 00:38:06,649 Pa's always kept us mighty close together. 698 00:38:06,718 --> 00:38:09,251 You see, we're just half brothers. 699 00:38:09,321 --> 00:38:10,820 Oh? 700 00:38:10,889 --> 00:38:12,555 Yes, sir. 701 00:38:12,623 --> 00:38:15,892 My pa has had a terrible lot of tragedy in his life. 702 00:38:15,961 --> 00:38:19,462 "Tragedy." Yeah. 703 00:38:19,530 --> 00:38:22,765 But this has made of him a finer man. 704 00:38:22,834 --> 00:38:26,235 And it's helped draw you all closer together 705 00:38:26,304 --> 00:38:27,903 as a family, no? 706 00:38:27,973 --> 00:38:30,306 Yes, sir. 707 00:38:30,375 --> 00:38:31,841 I reckon it has. 708 00:38:33,478 --> 00:38:36,513 The girl, Helene... 709 00:38:36,581 --> 00:38:39,449 You must try to make her see this. 710 00:38:39,518 --> 00:38:42,318 Hoss, right now, 711 00:38:42,387 --> 00:38:45,154 she sees only her own loss. 712 00:38:46,658 --> 00:38:49,592 But nothing is lost, ever. 713 00:38:50,829 --> 00:38:53,389 And nothing is ever destroyed. 714 00:38:53,432 --> 00:38:56,065 The miners who were killed 715 00:38:56,134 --> 00:38:58,768 because of improper timbering in these mines, 716 00:38:58,837 --> 00:39:01,904 they have found a new method of timbering, Hoss. 717 00:39:01,973 --> 00:39:04,474 I did not do it, they did. 718 00:39:04,543 --> 00:39:06,943 I am only 719 00:39:07,012 --> 00:39:11,180 the instrument that carried out the plan, 720 00:39:11,249 --> 00:39:12,414 no more than that. 721 00:39:12,484 --> 00:39:14,918 Mr. Diedeshiemer, 722 00:39:14,986 --> 00:39:17,921 folks are going to remember you for an awful long time. 723 00:39:20,025 --> 00:39:21,891 Miss Helene. 724 00:39:21,959 --> 00:39:23,859 Sit down, Miss Holloway. 725 00:39:23,928 --> 00:39:25,861 Please. 726 00:39:28,633 --> 00:39:29,633 What's the matter? 727 00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:31,967 "Matter"? 728 00:39:33,805 --> 00:39:37,574 I've been walking around, looking into the faces of women 729 00:39:37,642 --> 00:39:41,110 who have lost their husbands in the mines. 730 00:39:41,179 --> 00:39:44,581 I've been searching their eyes, wondering 731 00:39:44,649 --> 00:39:46,782 if they know my father is a murderer. 732 00:39:46,851 --> 00:39:50,753 Ma'am, you shouldn't ought to talk like that. 733 00:39:50,822 --> 00:39:53,356 Not about your own pa. No. 734 00:39:53,425 --> 00:39:55,369 Maybe he ain't done all he could do, 735 00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:57,026 but at least he's tried. 736 00:39:57,094 --> 00:39:58,639 He hired Mr. Diedeshiemer. 737 00:39:58,663 --> 00:40:00,608 But he hasn't let him do anything. 738 00:40:00,632 --> 00:40:02,164 And he won't. 739 00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:04,478 Well, it don't really make no difference if he don't. 740 00:40:04,502 --> 00:40:06,079 'Cause we're gonna do it anyhow. 741 00:40:06,103 --> 00:40:07,870 What do you mean? 742 00:40:07,939 --> 00:40:10,640 Pa and Adam and Little Joe are up there in the hills right now 743 00:40:10,709 --> 00:40:11,885 at the sawmill milling the timber 744 00:40:11,909 --> 00:40:13,387 we're going to put down that mine, 745 00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:16,145 so Mr. Diedeshiemer here can make the test he wants to make. 746 00:40:16,214 --> 00:40:18,125 Does my father know about this? 747 00:40:18,149 --> 00:40:21,417 Well, I... I reckon Adam sort of forgot to tell him. 748 00:40:27,092 --> 00:40:29,002 Do you really think that my father 749 00:40:29,026 --> 00:40:30,871 and the other mine owners would let you do this? 750 00:40:30,895 --> 00:40:34,930 Oh, ma'am, we ain't gonna charge him for it. 751 00:40:34,999 --> 00:40:36,444 Besides, how they gonna stop us? 752 00:40:36,468 --> 00:40:37,900 Stop you? 753 00:40:37,969 --> 00:40:40,303 Hoss, don't you understand? 754 00:40:40,371 --> 00:40:42,749 They can hire 50 men with clubs 755 00:40:42,773 --> 00:40:44,651 to stop you if they want to. 756 00:40:44,675 --> 00:40:47,243 What'd they want to do a thing like that for? 757 00:40:47,312 --> 00:40:50,779 I'm afraid this does go much further than, uh, 758 00:40:50,849 --> 00:40:53,149 a test installation, Hoss. 759 00:40:53,218 --> 00:40:55,551 Once it's in there, and the men see it, 760 00:40:55,619 --> 00:40:59,322 they won't be satisfied with any other system of timbering. 761 00:40:59,390 --> 00:41:02,358 Mr. Diedeshiemer, 762 00:41:02,426 --> 00:41:05,794 do you want that timber down there in that mine? 763 00:41:06,898 --> 00:41:09,365 Yeah, very much, Hoss. 764 00:41:09,433 --> 00:41:12,034 Well, we're gonna put it down there for you. 765 00:41:12,103 --> 00:41:14,603 And if any of them fellas try to stop us, 766 00:41:14,672 --> 00:41:17,606 well, I... I reckon that'll be my business. 767 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,153 I didn't really think they'd do it. 768 00:41:31,222 --> 00:41:33,342 I reckon you must know 'em better than I do. 769 00:41:37,162 --> 00:41:39,094 I don't see my father with them. 770 00:41:49,107 --> 00:41:51,840 There's a rumor around that you plan to do 771 00:41:51,909 --> 00:41:53,988 some special timbering in Mr. Holloway's mine. 772 00:41:54,012 --> 00:41:56,212 Well, this is one time that a rumor's correct. 773 00:41:56,281 --> 00:41:58,025 You Cartwrights don't own this mine. 774 00:41:58,049 --> 00:41:59,249 You've got no business here. 775 00:41:59,284 --> 00:42:01,161 Now, you don't own this mine, either, mister. 776 00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:02,997 Why don't you let Mr. Holloway tell me? 777 00:42:03,021 --> 00:42:04,866 We haven't been able to find Mr. Holloway, 778 00:42:04,890 --> 00:42:06,155 but his interests are ours, 779 00:42:06,224 --> 00:42:08,344 and we're here to see that they're protected. 780 00:42:08,393 --> 00:42:09,659 Take him off there. 781 00:42:55,873 --> 00:42:57,673 All right, break this up! 782 00:42:57,742 --> 00:42:59,675 I'm still in charge here! 783 00:43:01,045 --> 00:43:03,457 Andrew! We couldn't find you. 784 00:43:03,481 --> 00:43:05,158 We came here to protect your interests. 785 00:43:05,182 --> 00:43:07,049 I can take care of my own interest. 786 00:43:07,117 --> 00:43:08,851 And that's just what I've been doing. 787 00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:10,764 But they were planning to build some of those 788 00:43:10,788 --> 00:43:12,099 monkey cages down in your mine. 789 00:43:12,123 --> 00:43:14,857 I'm aware of what they were planning to do. 790 00:43:14,926 --> 00:43:16,358 I'm helping them to do it. 791 00:43:16,428 --> 00:43:18,773 Why, Andrew, have you lost your senses? 792 00:43:18,797 --> 00:43:23,599 No, I haven't lost my senses. 793 00:43:23,668 --> 00:43:26,268 I've just found them. 794 00:43:26,337 --> 00:43:28,137 How long since any of you 795 00:43:28,206 --> 00:43:30,339 have been down in one of your mines? 796 00:43:30,408 --> 00:43:33,376 Well, maybe you should, gentlemen. 797 00:43:33,444 --> 00:43:35,711 I just did and I don't like what I saw. 798 00:43:37,882 --> 00:43:39,215 I don't know if Mr. Diedeshiemer's 799 00:43:39,283 --> 00:43:41,551 system of timbering will work or not, 800 00:43:41,619 --> 00:43:43,686 but he's going to get a chance to try it. 801 00:43:55,033 --> 00:43:57,211 Adam and the other boys will unload that lumber 802 00:43:57,235 --> 00:43:58,512 right where you want it. 803 00:43:58,536 --> 00:44:01,096 If you need me, well, just holler. 804 00:44:15,319 --> 00:44:17,252 Fine. Exactly. 805 00:44:24,996 --> 00:44:26,162 This is fine. 806 00:44:26,230 --> 00:44:27,830 You go now, huh? 807 00:44:27,899 --> 00:44:29,665 Thank you. 808 00:44:33,337 --> 00:44:35,137 Are you satisfied, Philip? 809 00:44:35,206 --> 00:44:38,373 It is still an impractical man's dream, Adam. 810 00:44:38,442 --> 00:44:41,210 An invention is never completed until it is 811 00:44:41,278 --> 00:44:43,356 put to the test of serving the purpose 812 00:44:43,380 --> 00:44:44,524 for which it was designed. 813 00:44:44,548 --> 00:44:46,626 Well, you wait for me up above. 814 00:44:46,650 --> 00:44:49,296 Huh? I would like to stay here and look at this for awhile. 815 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:50,619 Oh, no, you don't. 816 00:44:50,688 --> 00:44:51,968 What's the matter? 817 00:44:53,858 --> 00:44:56,592 I found your bag... 818 00:44:56,660 --> 00:44:59,339 with the powder; you didn't do a good job of hiding it. 819 00:44:59,363 --> 00:45:02,231 It's too dangerous, Adam. 820 00:45:02,299 --> 00:45:03,799 I'm game if you are. 821 00:45:03,868 --> 00:45:05,868 I don't want any more men killed. 822 00:45:05,937 --> 00:45:07,636 Neither do I. 823 00:45:07,705 --> 00:45:09,549 But I would like to be with you. 824 00:45:09,573 --> 00:45:11,618 Sort of a promise I made to Gil. 825 00:45:11,642 --> 00:45:13,275 All right. 826 00:45:13,344 --> 00:45:15,344 We'll see this thing through together. 827 00:45:16,814 --> 00:45:19,248 This is good. 828 00:45:19,316 --> 00:45:21,250 Now, for the final test. 829 00:45:28,993 --> 00:45:31,093 Why, you're wasting our time, Holloway. 830 00:45:31,162 --> 00:45:33,240 You better take a good look at it, because you're going to see 831 00:45:33,264 --> 00:45:35,264 a lot of this kind of timbering from now on. 832 00:45:35,332 --> 00:45:36,932 Not in my mine, you won't. 833 00:45:37,001 --> 00:45:40,870 Well... this is it. 834 00:45:40,939 --> 00:45:42,872 Good luck, Philip. 835 00:45:45,343 --> 00:45:46,776 Come. 836 00:45:50,214 --> 00:45:52,648 Mr. Holloway, you should not be here. 837 00:45:52,717 --> 00:45:55,151 It's still my mine, and these gentlemen 838 00:45:55,219 --> 00:45:56,485 are a little hard to convince. 839 00:45:56,554 --> 00:45:57,998 You don't understand. We're making a test. 840 00:45:58,022 --> 00:45:59,522 Don't test it too hard 841 00:45:59,591 --> 00:46:01,791 or your monkey cage will fall down on your head. 842 00:46:01,859 --> 00:46:04,405 I hope not, gentlemen. I believe not. 843 00:46:04,429 --> 00:46:06,328 But we will soon know. 844 00:46:06,397 --> 00:46:07,708 We've set a blast to test it. 845 00:46:09,300 --> 00:46:11,045 I can imagine your being down here 846 00:46:11,069 --> 00:46:12,568 with a blast about to go off. 847 00:46:12,637 --> 00:46:15,282 Your workmen do it every day, don't they? Oh, yes, but with... 848 00:46:15,306 --> 00:46:17,373 With your present system of timbering. 849 00:46:17,442 --> 00:46:19,086 Well, you're standing under some of it now. 850 00:46:19,110 --> 00:46:21,054 You may stay here if you feel safer. 851 00:46:21,078 --> 00:46:23,612 I prefer to stay over here. So do I. 852 00:46:26,050 --> 00:46:27,928 Why, you fool, we'll all be killed! 853 00:46:27,952 --> 00:46:30,553 Boys, the old timbering is right behind you. 854 00:46:30,621 --> 00:46:31,899 Go ahead and stay under it. 855 00:46:31,923 --> 00:46:33,989 You'd better hurry. 856 00:46:54,512 --> 00:46:57,613 Well, I think this held up rather well, 857 00:46:57,682 --> 00:46:59,615 don't you, gentlemen? 858 00:47:06,157 --> 00:47:07,623 Very impressive. 859 00:47:07,692 --> 00:47:09,569 But I still won't hold still for it. 860 00:47:09,593 --> 00:47:10,726 And why not? 861 00:47:10,795 --> 00:47:12,227 Isn't it pretty obvious? 862 00:47:12,296 --> 00:47:15,009 This man undoubtedly has a patent on his timbering system, 863 00:47:15,033 --> 00:47:17,577 and plans to rob us blind collecting royalties. 864 00:47:18,870 --> 00:47:20,870 I am afraid I'm not so wise as you. 865 00:47:20,938 --> 00:47:24,439 I do not know the dollar and cent worth of a human life. 866 00:47:24,508 --> 00:47:28,243 I only know it is very dear. 867 00:47:28,312 --> 00:47:31,914 I have no patent, no desire to charge royalty. 868 00:47:32,984 --> 00:47:35,417 If my invention saves human lives, 869 00:47:35,486 --> 00:47:37,687 surely that is payment enough for any man. 870 00:47:37,755 --> 00:47:39,821 Wait a moment, Philip. 871 00:47:39,891 --> 00:47:41,290 Ladies and gentlemen, 872 00:47:41,359 --> 00:47:43,270 we have just made a practical test 873 00:47:43,294 --> 00:47:45,995 of the new Diedeshiemer system of timbering. 874 00:47:46,063 --> 00:47:48,530 Any of these gentlemen here can attest to the fact 875 00:47:48,599 --> 00:47:50,032 that it was a complete success. 876 00:47:53,004 --> 00:47:55,905 I'm closing the Ophir till it's completely re-timbered 877 00:47:55,973 --> 00:47:58,073 with the Diedeshiemer square sets. 878 00:47:58,142 --> 00:48:00,153 Every man will be paid his regular wages 879 00:48:00,177 --> 00:48:01,255 while the work goes on. 880 00:48:03,114 --> 00:48:04,446 Ladies and gentlemen. 881 00:48:05,616 --> 00:48:07,027 Here's the man who's put an end 882 00:48:07,051 --> 00:48:09,195 to all the mine cave-ins on the Comstock, 883 00:48:09,219 --> 00:48:10,653 Mr. Philip Diedeshiemer. 884 00:48:13,457 --> 00:48:16,336 Every mine owner will have to put in square sets now, you watch. 885 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,672 This whole town will be sitting on one, big honeycomb. 886 00:48:20,631 --> 00:48:22,442 It's a great thing you've done, Philip. 887 00:48:22,466 --> 00:48:24,399 We did it together. 888 00:48:29,807 --> 00:48:30,973 Listen, I'm hungry. 889 00:48:31,042 --> 00:48:32,641 Ain't you starved? 890 00:48:33,978 --> 00:48:36,078 On the contrary, Hoss. 891 00:48:36,147 --> 00:48:40,415 Right now, I feel... I feel very full. 892 00:48:41,652 --> 00:48:44,286 Mr. Diedeshiemer, I told you once that 893 00:48:44,354 --> 00:48:46,822 folks was gonna remember you for a awful long time. 894 00:48:46,891 --> 00:48:48,835 And they would, too, if they could remember your name, 895 00:48:48,859 --> 00:48:50,537 but it's so dang-blasted hard to pronounce. 896 00:48:50,561 --> 00:48:52,561 Well, don't worry about that, Hoss. 897 00:48:52,629 --> 00:48:54,196 Names are never very important. 898 00:48:54,264 --> 00:48:56,932 Anyway, it's easier to pronounce "The Dutchman." 899 00:48:57,001 --> 00:48:58,600 Come on, let's get some supper, huh?