1 00:00:02,501 --> 00:00:05,434 * * 2 00:00:24,133 --> 00:00:26,067 Mmm. What's this for? 3 00:00:26,133 --> 00:00:28,567 Because I love you. 4 00:00:28,634 --> 00:00:31,000 And because this is my engagement party. 5 00:00:31,067 --> 00:00:32,167 Now, remember, you promised-- 6 00:00:32,234 --> 00:00:35,300 no talking about mine business tonight. 7 00:00:35,367 --> 00:00:37,634 Promise? 8 00:00:37,701 --> 00:00:39,634 I promise. 9 00:00:56,801 --> 00:00:58,834 (doorbell rings) 10 00:01:04,968 --> 00:01:06,701 (chuckling) 11 00:01:06,767 --> 00:01:08,501 Well, here he is. 12 00:01:08,567 --> 00:01:10,667 How did you ever pry him away? 13 00:01:10,734 --> 00:01:12,100 It wasn't too hard to do. 14 00:01:12,167 --> 00:01:14,334 Well, I told him if he didn't come to this party, 15 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,467 I'd refuse to be best man and marry you myself. 16 00:01:16,534 --> 00:01:19,667 I didn't want to take that chance. 17 00:01:19,734 --> 00:01:22,100 (chuckling) 18 00:01:22,167 --> 00:01:23,601 Forget about being superintendent 19 00:01:23,667 --> 00:01:24,968 for one night, Gil. 20 00:01:25,033 --> 00:01:27,000 The mine will run all right without you. 21 00:01:27,067 --> 00:01:29,534 I sent the night shift back to work on the third level. 22 00:01:29,601 --> 00:01:31,000 You what? 23 00:01:31,067 --> 00:01:33,067 I told you we couldn't work the third level 24 00:01:33,133 --> 00:01:34,234 without new timbering. 25 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:37,801 Dad, you promised no mine talk. 26 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:42,033 (whistle blowing) 27 00:01:54,501 --> 00:01:57,567 Gil, cave in, third level. The whole shift is trapped. 28 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,100 (theme song playing) 29 00:02:42,100 --> 00:02:44,133 All right, everybody, stand back! 30 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:45,467 Give us room! 31 00:02:45,534 --> 00:02:48,400 My boy. Where's my boy? 32 00:02:48,467 --> 00:02:50,334 It's all right, Mary. 33 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,334 I'll find him. 34 00:02:56,334 --> 00:03:01,467 Mr. Holloway, you promised us new safety timbering. 35 00:03:01,534 --> 00:03:03,934 I'm doing all I can. Come on, dear. 36 00:03:04,033 --> 00:03:05,234 You ought to go home. 37 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:07,934 It's all right. He'll be all right. I know it. 38 00:03:11,467 --> 00:03:13,367 You said that third level wasn't safe, 39 00:03:13,434 --> 00:03:15,133 but you sent the shift in anyway. 40 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,033 You said yourself it wasn't safe! 41 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:18,400 Get out of the way, Tregallis. 42 00:03:18,467 --> 00:03:19,868 You used to be one of us. 43 00:03:19,934 --> 00:03:22,133 Now you're marrying Holloway's daughter. 44 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:23,667 Gil's doing everything he can, Tregallis. 45 00:03:23,734 --> 00:03:24,968 When? Like always? 46 00:03:25,033 --> 00:03:27,601 When it's too late? My kid brother's down there. 47 00:03:27,667 --> 00:03:29,067 Now, you get out of my way, Cartwright. 48 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,467 (bell ringing) 49 00:03:33,534 --> 00:03:34,767 All right, stand back. 50 00:03:34,834 --> 00:03:36,834 It's coming up now. Give us room. 51 00:03:36,901 --> 00:03:39,400 There's two of them. Move on back. 52 00:03:39,467 --> 00:03:41,400 It's Pat! Pat! 53 00:03:41,467 --> 00:03:43,400 All right, bring him on out. 54 00:03:47,701 --> 00:03:48,767 (woman crying) 55 00:03:48,834 --> 00:03:50,767 Pat, oh, thank God you're here. 56 00:03:53,801 --> 00:03:55,968 East slope. Third level. 57 00:03:56,033 --> 00:03:57,534 Every timber seemed to buckle at once 58 00:03:57,601 --> 00:03:59,067 as they set off a blast above us. 59 00:03:59,133 --> 00:04:03,033 Same as last week. Every time it's the same thing. 60 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:04,667 Move out of the way. 61 00:04:06,434 --> 00:04:08,501 Gil, you're not going down there, are you? 62 00:04:08,567 --> 00:04:10,133 If I'd stayed down there where I belong, 63 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,701 this might not have happened. 64 00:04:11,767 --> 00:04:13,634 Don't let what Tregallis said get under your hide. 65 00:04:13,701 --> 00:04:15,801 If my kid brother was trapped down there, 66 00:04:15,868 --> 00:04:18,534 I'd think of something worse to say than Tregallis said. 67 00:04:22,367 --> 00:04:25,000 Adam, you don't have to come down with me. 68 00:04:25,067 --> 00:04:28,234 It's my timber you're using, isn't it? 69 00:04:28,300 --> 00:04:30,367 All right, Bud, let her go. 70 00:04:30,434 --> 00:04:32,133 (bell dings) 71 00:04:33,234 --> 00:04:35,334 (sighing) 72 00:04:36,868 --> 00:04:39,267 How do they stand it time after time? 73 00:04:39,334 --> 00:04:41,634 It's like living on top of a powder keg, 74 00:04:41,701 --> 00:04:43,434 waiting for that disaster whistle to blow. 75 00:04:43,501 --> 00:04:45,467 That's part of mining, Helene. 76 00:04:50,267 --> 00:04:51,868 Enter it on the report. 77 00:04:51,934 --> 00:04:55,000 Make sure each of the widows gets the usual box of groceries. 78 00:04:55,067 --> 00:04:56,267 Yes, sir. 79 00:04:58,567 --> 00:05:01,634 A box of groceries in exchange for a dead husband. 80 00:05:01,701 --> 00:05:02,934 That's company policy. 81 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,200 It's a terrible thing. 82 00:05:05,267 --> 00:05:07,400 I'm sorry this had to happen tonight 83 00:05:07,467 --> 00:05:09,534 and spoil your party, Helene. 84 00:05:10,634 --> 00:05:12,567 (sighs) 85 00:05:25,334 --> 00:05:27,067 Helene, this is ridiculous. 86 00:05:27,133 --> 00:05:29,000 It's 2:00 o'clock in the morning. 87 00:05:29,067 --> 00:05:31,267 Let's go home and get some sleep. 88 00:05:31,334 --> 00:05:33,467 Daddy, those women won't sleep tonight. 89 00:05:33,534 --> 00:05:36,834 They each have a man down there, and so do I. 90 00:05:37,801 --> 00:05:39,734 (bell clangs) 91 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:43,634 Gil. 92 00:05:43,701 --> 00:05:45,400 Oh. 93 00:05:45,467 --> 00:05:47,467 Oh, Girl, are you all right? 94 00:05:47,534 --> 00:05:49,467 I'm all right. 95 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,834 Do you want to tell them? 96 00:05:57,901 --> 00:06:00,467 Tell them what? 97 00:06:00,534 --> 00:06:03,234 That there's nobody else coming up out of there. 98 00:06:03,300 --> 00:06:05,234 Not tonight. 99 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:07,033 Not ever. 100 00:06:26,667 --> 00:06:28,601 (crying and indistinct chatter) 101 00:06:45,968 --> 00:06:47,934 How soon can you give me a report? 102 00:06:51,267 --> 00:06:53,334 It will be on your desk. 103 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,334 Cold black figures against a white piece of paper. 104 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,601 Five dead, two dying, 105 00:06:58,667 --> 00:07:00,467 five missing, 14 injured. 106 00:07:00,534 --> 00:07:01,801 But no slow-up in production, 107 00:07:01,868 --> 00:07:03,000 Mr. Holloway. 108 00:07:03,067 --> 00:07:04,868 Does that make you happy? 109 00:07:04,934 --> 00:07:06,167 Stop it, Gil. 110 00:07:06,234 --> 00:07:07,901 I'm sick of it! 111 00:07:07,968 --> 00:07:10,000 Gil, you shouldn't have gone down there. 112 00:07:10,067 --> 00:07:11,167 No, that's right. 113 00:07:11,234 --> 00:07:13,000 I should have stayed at the party. 114 00:07:13,067 --> 00:07:14,434 I'm a superintendent now, 115 00:07:14,501 --> 00:07:17,400 and the men I used to work with aren't human beings anymore. 116 00:07:17,467 --> 00:07:19,667 Aren't you being a little melodramatic? 117 00:07:19,734 --> 00:07:21,133 Am I? 118 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,534 You... You should have been down there with us. 119 00:07:24,601 --> 00:07:26,033 That was melodramatic, too. 120 00:07:26,100 --> 00:07:28,667 I've had my share of mine disasters. 121 00:07:28,734 --> 00:07:30,968 But you don't have to face those men every day, 122 00:07:31,067 --> 00:07:32,200 or those women. I do. 123 00:07:32,267 --> 00:07:34,267 It's not my job to manage the men. 124 00:07:34,334 --> 00:07:36,267 Not your job? 125 00:07:36,334 --> 00:07:38,167 Or haven't you got the guts 126 00:07:38,234 --> 00:07:40,767 to stand up to them and order them into a mine 127 00:07:40,834 --> 00:07:42,434 that isn't safe enough for a rat? 128 00:07:42,501 --> 00:07:45,901 The Ophir is as safe as any mine on the Comstock. 129 00:07:45,968 --> 00:07:47,434 That's saying a lot, isn't it?! 130 00:07:47,501 --> 00:07:49,434 Gil, please. 131 00:07:53,767 --> 00:07:56,100 What were you doing down there? 132 00:07:56,167 --> 00:07:58,834 I was checking the timbering. 133 00:07:58,901 --> 00:08:00,234 I've got a man hired to do that. 134 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:01,667 I know. Philip Diedeshiemer. 135 00:08:01,734 --> 00:08:03,234 I was hoping to talk with him. 136 00:08:03,300 --> 00:08:05,467 I run the Ophir mine, Adam. 137 00:08:05,534 --> 00:08:07,300 You sell me timber for that mine. 138 00:08:07,367 --> 00:08:10,234 It's worked out very well for both of us. 139 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:13,334 Suppose we keep it that way? 140 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,334 Would you like a brandy? 141 00:08:33,300 --> 00:08:34,601 (sighs) 142 00:08:34,667 --> 00:08:37,968 You must be tired, Helene. 143 00:08:39,667 --> 00:08:41,667 Come over here. 144 00:08:41,734 --> 00:08:43,634 Sit down. 145 00:08:45,267 --> 00:08:47,200 Close to me a minute. 146 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:49,567 (sighs) 147 00:08:49,634 --> 00:08:51,567 I want to talk to you about Gil. 148 00:08:53,133 --> 00:08:55,968 Now, I'm as fond of Gil as you are. 149 00:08:57,367 --> 00:08:59,767 If I didn't think he'd make you a good husband, 150 00:08:59,834 --> 00:09:03,133 I'd have fired him instead of promoting him. 151 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,834 Gil's a superintendent now. 152 00:09:05,901 --> 00:09:08,968 He doesn't have to go underground anymore. 153 00:09:09,033 --> 00:09:10,968 Daddy... 154 00:09:11,067 --> 00:09:13,234 those men are his friends. 155 00:09:13,300 --> 00:09:15,868 You-You can't expect him to forget that. 156 00:09:15,934 --> 00:09:17,234 I had to forget it. 157 00:09:17,300 --> 00:09:20,267 It's a lesson I had to learn. 158 00:09:20,334 --> 00:09:21,801 Stay on your own level. 159 00:09:21,868 --> 00:09:24,133 That's my job, and I have to do it. 160 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,434 Don't you think I have bosses? 161 00:09:27,501 --> 00:09:29,467 My bosses have no faces. 162 00:09:29,534 --> 00:09:31,634 No hearts, no souls. 163 00:09:31,701 --> 00:09:34,100 But they've got a stock certificate, 164 00:09:34,167 --> 00:09:36,634 and if I get soft or sentimental, 165 00:09:36,701 --> 00:09:40,601 they use it as a club to beat my brains out. 166 00:09:42,667 --> 00:09:44,634 (sighs) 167 00:09:46,467 --> 00:09:49,400 (sighs) 168 00:09:49,467 --> 00:09:52,467 I fought a long time to get what I've got. 169 00:09:52,534 --> 00:09:54,567 And I'll fight to keep it. 170 00:09:54,634 --> 00:09:57,467 I believe Gil was thinking about preventing another accident, 171 00:09:57,534 --> 00:09:59,901 not about your stockholders. 172 00:09:59,968 --> 00:10:01,467 Honey, believe me, 173 00:10:01,534 --> 00:10:04,667 it gets pretty lonely up here on this level. 174 00:10:04,734 --> 00:10:07,567 The higher a man stands, the farther he can see. 175 00:10:07,634 --> 00:10:12,300 I have to do what I think's best for the most people. 176 00:10:12,367 --> 00:10:14,367 Try to understand that. 177 00:10:16,767 --> 00:10:18,901 I am trying to understand it, Dad. 178 00:10:28,968 --> 00:10:30,234 Well, good morning. 179 00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:31,801 How'd you get into town so early? 180 00:10:31,868 --> 00:10:33,434 I yanked him out of bed, that's why. 181 00:10:33,501 --> 00:10:34,634 (laughter) 182 00:10:34,701 --> 00:10:35,634 Coffee? 183 00:10:35,701 --> 00:10:36,834 No, thanks. 184 00:10:36,901 --> 00:10:38,067 Gil, you still think it'd be worthwhile 185 00:10:38,133 --> 00:10:40,033 for me to talk to Diedeshiemer? 186 00:10:40,100 --> 00:10:45,000 My future father-in-law doesn't seem to think so, 187 00:10:45,067 --> 00:10:46,567 but I still do. 188 00:10:47,667 --> 00:10:49,734 That's why Holloway likes you. 189 00:10:49,801 --> 00:10:50,901 You stand up to him. 190 00:10:52,033 --> 00:10:54,901 Hey, who's gonna pay for this? 191 00:10:54,968 --> 00:10:57,968 I don't know... 192 00:10:58,033 --> 00:11:00,067 and I'm too sleepy to try and figure it out. 193 00:11:00,133 --> 00:11:02,801 I can't figure out who's going to pay for it 194 00:11:02,868 --> 00:11:04,400 on an empty stomach. 195 00:11:04,467 --> 00:11:06,634 Better bring me another steak. 196 00:11:08,701 --> 00:11:11,534 Mr. Fenton, Mr. Fenton. 197 00:11:11,601 --> 00:11:13,434 Look, I, uh, want to talk to you. 198 00:11:13,501 --> 00:11:14,601 What is it, Tregallis? 199 00:11:14,667 --> 00:11:16,667 Well, last night 200 00:11:16,734 --> 00:11:18,601 my kid brother was down in the mine. 201 00:11:18,667 --> 00:11:20,934 I should have known he'd be all right. 202 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,634 Well, I said things I shouldn't have. 203 00:11:22,701 --> 00:11:26,100 It's all right, Tregallis, I understand. 204 00:11:26,167 --> 00:11:27,567 Well, I-I wouldn't want to lose my job 205 00:11:27,634 --> 00:11:28,968 or anything like that, you know? 206 00:11:29,033 --> 00:11:31,234 You won't, not over this. 207 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:33,234 Thanks. 208 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:34,234 Gil? 209 00:11:34,300 --> 00:11:35,634 Same old Gil. 210 00:11:35,701 --> 00:11:37,000 You ain't changed. 211 00:11:37,067 --> 00:11:40,400 A-A-And listen, all this talk about shutting down the mine 212 00:11:40,467 --> 00:11:44,267 for safety tests and all that-- don't you do it, Gil. 213 00:11:44,334 --> 00:11:45,901 Long as there's a hole in the ground, 214 00:11:45,968 --> 00:11:48,000 me and the boys will go down into it. 215 00:11:48,067 --> 00:11:50,367 We don't want to lose no day's pay 'cause somebody's afraid 216 00:11:50,434 --> 00:11:52,434 of getting a rock on top of the head. 217 00:11:52,501 --> 00:11:54,868 And Mr. Cartwright, I don't blame you 218 00:11:54,934 --> 00:11:56,467 for poking me in the whiskers, 219 00:11:56,534 --> 00:11:59,334 but next time, don't do it so hard. 220 00:12:03,601 --> 00:12:05,234 Have you seen Philip Diedeshiemer? 221 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:06,968 The Dutchman? 222 00:12:07,033 --> 00:12:08,801 I don't understand that one. 223 00:12:08,868 --> 00:12:10,868 He's the only man I ever knew who could look 224 00:12:10,934 --> 00:12:13,100 a hole straight through you without even seeing you. 225 00:12:13,167 --> 00:12:14,868 Well, has he been around? 226 00:12:14,934 --> 00:12:16,534 He's been down in that hole 227 00:12:16,601 --> 00:12:19,434 since ten minutes after you left last night. 228 00:12:19,501 --> 00:12:21,367 Either he comes up for air pretty soon 229 00:12:21,434 --> 00:12:23,267 or he's gonna find nobody here to work this hoist 230 00:12:23,334 --> 00:12:24,767 when he rings that bell. 231 00:12:26,334 --> 00:12:28,100 Will you stay around for a little while? 232 00:12:29,501 --> 00:12:31,334 Take care of this for me, will you, Casey? 233 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,267 HELENE: Gil. 234 00:12:33,334 --> 00:12:35,367 Oh, Gil, I've been looking all over for you. 235 00:12:35,434 --> 00:12:37,834 Not now, dear. Adam and I want to go down below 236 00:12:37,901 --> 00:12:40,434 and look around for a minute. 237 00:12:40,501 --> 00:12:42,701 If it were another woman I could face it, 238 00:12:42,767 --> 00:12:45,367 but to have a silver mine for a romantic rival... 239 00:12:45,434 --> 00:12:47,133 (chuckles) Hey-hey... 240 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,234 Oh, Gil, please be careful. 241 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:52,133 If anything happened to you... 242 00:12:53,267 --> 00:12:54,868 Off you go. 243 00:12:56,868 --> 00:12:58,801 All right, let 'er go! 244 00:13:09,501 --> 00:13:11,434 (rumbling) Good, sound timbering, Gil. 245 00:13:11,501 --> 00:13:13,267 But it just isn't holding. 246 00:13:13,334 --> 00:13:15,267 (rumbling, crashing) 247 00:13:23,334 --> 00:13:26,534 Philip! Philip Diedeshiemer! 248 00:13:26,601 --> 00:13:28,534 (creaking) 249 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,133 It is not usually so, 250 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:40,968 but here in these mines there's such 251 00:13:41,033 --> 00:13:42,801 great variance of temperatures. 252 00:13:42,868 --> 00:13:44,968 There's a constant shrinking 253 00:13:45,033 --> 00:13:46,701 and expanding of the earth itself. 254 00:13:46,767 --> 00:13:48,300 When I took my pick and loosened 255 00:13:48,367 --> 00:13:50,567 this hanging wall behind the uprights, so... 256 00:13:50,634 --> 00:13:53,601 (coughs) You caved this in deliberately? 257 00:13:53,667 --> 00:13:55,067 You might have been killed, man. 258 00:13:55,133 --> 00:13:57,133 So... 259 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,734 The important thing is five men were killed last night. 260 00:14:01,968 --> 00:14:03,801 You see, Gil, there's an unusual 261 00:14:03,868 --> 00:14:05,701 side pressure against these uprights. 262 00:14:05,767 --> 00:14:08,067 And without tower braces to prevent side motion... 263 00:14:08,133 --> 00:14:10,734 Philip, this is Adam Cartwright. 264 00:14:10,801 --> 00:14:12,634 Adam, Philip Diedeshiemer. 265 00:14:12,701 --> 00:14:13,834 Mr. Cartwright. 266 00:14:13,901 --> 00:14:16,000 Hadn't you better take some time off? 267 00:14:16,067 --> 00:14:17,667 Get some rest. Have something to eat. 268 00:14:17,734 --> 00:14:19,234 Oh, the widows of those men, 269 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:21,167 they have no appetite this morning, Gil. 270 00:14:21,234 --> 00:14:22,400 Neither have I. 271 00:14:22,467 --> 00:14:25,300 You mention tower bracing, Mr. Cartwright. 272 00:14:25,367 --> 00:14:28,133 You, perhaps, worked in construction, no? 273 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,434 Well, I supply the timber for the mine. 274 00:14:30,501 --> 00:14:32,734 My father and I and my brothers, we have a ranch. 275 00:14:32,801 --> 00:14:34,434 And what a ranch, Philip. 276 00:14:34,501 --> 00:14:37,234 The Ponderosa, a thousand square miles of it. 277 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:38,667 And wait till you see the house. 278 00:14:38,734 --> 00:14:41,767 Adam designed and built it to last a hundred years. 279 00:14:41,834 --> 00:14:43,534 Oh? You must see it. 280 00:14:43,601 --> 00:14:45,133 Yeah, yeah. 281 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,133 (creaking) 282 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,601 There are so many things in your 283 00:14:49,667 --> 00:14:52,300 beautiful country that I must see. 284 00:14:52,367 --> 00:14:54,467 But how can I look at beauty 285 00:14:54,534 --> 00:14:55,634 when men are dying? 286 00:14:55,701 --> 00:14:57,634 (creaking) 287 00:14:59,667 --> 00:15:02,634 Given time as one of the factors, 288 00:15:02,701 --> 00:15:05,067 there is no problem in engineering 289 00:15:05,133 --> 00:15:06,601 that cannot be solved. 290 00:15:06,667 --> 00:15:11,367 Mr. Diedeshiemer, Gil's told me a great deal about you, and... 291 00:15:11,434 --> 00:15:12,801 Well, I don't mean to be presumptuous, 292 00:15:12,868 --> 00:15:14,534 but if you'd care to have me go over 293 00:15:14,601 --> 00:15:16,667 your stress calculations with you... 294 00:15:16,734 --> 00:15:19,767 What I mean, is that, uh, if you'd like to use me 295 00:15:19,834 --> 00:15:22,968 as a sounding board, I've kept up with my mathematics. 296 00:15:23,033 --> 00:15:26,067 It would mean a great deal to me to have someone to talk with. 297 00:15:26,133 --> 00:15:28,501 Someone who understood the engineering problem. 298 00:15:28,567 --> 00:15:30,934 Well, I'd be honored, Mr. Diedeshiemer. 299 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,934 Well, then you call me "Philip," huh? 300 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,367 So we do not waste time. 301 00:15:35,434 --> 00:15:37,367 (creaking) 302 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:47,033 (rumbling) 303 00:15:48,701 --> 00:15:50,634 (creaking, rumbling grows louder) 304 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:00,033 (rumbling) 305 00:16:02,968 --> 00:16:04,567 Come in here with your picks, boys. 306 00:16:08,968 --> 00:16:10,567 (creaking) 307 00:16:11,801 --> 00:16:13,734 (grunts) 308 00:16:15,801 --> 00:16:18,501 (coughing) 309 00:16:18,567 --> 00:16:19,634 Are you all right? 310 00:16:19,701 --> 00:16:22,000 Yeah. Where's Gil? 311 00:16:22,067 --> 00:16:24,167 He was right behind us. 312 00:16:24,234 --> 00:16:26,968 Can you see him? No. 313 00:16:27,033 --> 00:16:29,100 (coughs) 314 00:16:29,167 --> 00:16:31,100 Gil? 315 00:16:32,501 --> 00:16:34,601 Gil, can you hear me?! 316 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,934 (coughs) 317 00:16:48,334 --> 00:16:49,634 Well, what do we do now? 318 00:16:49,701 --> 00:16:52,501 We wait. 319 00:16:52,567 --> 00:16:55,334 Just as thousands before us have waited. 320 00:16:57,167 --> 00:17:00,634 And we think of many things. 321 00:17:02,467 --> 00:17:04,934 That is the final refuge of a man, 322 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,801 when he's... completely alone. 323 00:17:08,868 --> 00:17:11,167 He can think. 324 00:17:11,234 --> 00:17:12,801 Get out of the way! Get out of the way! 325 00:17:12,868 --> 00:17:14,200 My brother's down there! 326 00:17:14,267 --> 00:17:16,200 Hoss. 327 00:17:16,267 --> 00:17:18,167 I just heard about it, Miss Helene. 328 00:17:18,234 --> 00:17:19,400 Don't worry none. 329 00:17:19,467 --> 00:17:20,901 Gil's going to be all right, ma'am. 330 00:17:23,234 --> 00:17:26,234 (cries) Please don't do that, ma'am. 331 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:28,234 Everything's going to be all right. 332 00:17:32,501 --> 00:17:33,701 Sorry, Mr. Cartwright. 333 00:17:33,767 --> 00:17:35,734 I have orders to let no outsiders go down. 334 00:17:35,801 --> 00:17:37,601 Well, your orders just changed. 335 00:17:37,667 --> 00:17:38,767 Let 'er go, Bo! 336 00:17:38,834 --> 00:17:40,167 (bell dings) 337 00:17:40,234 --> 00:17:42,200 TREGALLIS: Wait a minute, boys. 338 00:17:42,267 --> 00:17:44,200 Wait a minute. 339 00:17:50,567 --> 00:17:52,501 (faint knocking) 340 00:17:52,567 --> 00:17:54,767 Adam, huh. 341 00:17:54,834 --> 00:17:56,767 Answer them. 342 00:18:03,534 --> 00:18:05,501 (faint knocking, creaking) 343 00:18:06,734 --> 00:18:08,167 Get in there, boys, with your shovels. 344 00:18:08,234 --> 00:18:10,167 Get the loose stuff out. 345 00:18:11,968 --> 00:18:13,200 What are you thinking about now? 346 00:18:13,267 --> 00:18:18,234 I was thinking that perhaps after today... 347 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:22,200 we will not let a mine fall on our heads again. 348 00:18:22,267 --> 00:18:23,400 (chuckling, creaking) 349 00:18:23,467 --> 00:18:25,734 I hope not. 350 00:18:25,801 --> 00:18:28,400 Well, there is a simple way. 351 00:18:29,801 --> 00:18:31,801 All we have to do is... 352 00:18:31,868 --> 00:18:35,467 never again go into a mine. 353 00:18:36,968 --> 00:18:41,767 So many people make that decision in life. 354 00:18:43,501 --> 00:18:45,267 So very many... 355 00:18:45,334 --> 00:18:47,267 (creaking) 356 00:19:13,634 --> 00:19:15,767 No use, boys. May as well give up. 357 00:19:15,834 --> 00:19:17,367 They don't answer the signal no more. 358 00:19:17,434 --> 00:19:19,267 (footsteps approaching) 359 00:19:19,334 --> 00:19:21,901 They're back of that wall of rock, but we're too late. 360 00:19:21,968 --> 00:19:23,567 They don't answer anymore. 361 00:19:37,133 --> 00:19:39,067 Give me that shovel. 362 00:19:47,501 --> 00:19:48,767 Okay, bud, okay. 363 00:19:48,834 --> 00:19:50,767 That's good. 364 00:19:58,834 --> 00:20:00,434 Give me some light. 365 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,434 Hi, Adam. 366 00:20:13,501 --> 00:20:15,434 It's about time you got here. 367 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,300 Gil's back there somewhere. 368 00:20:19,367 --> 00:20:21,534 Adam... 369 00:20:21,601 --> 00:20:24,300 There ain't nothing back there but 500 ton of rock. 370 00:20:29,033 --> 00:20:31,300 (Hoss grunting, mine creaking) 371 00:20:35,434 --> 00:20:37,367 All right, let 'er down. 372 00:20:39,701 --> 00:20:42,367 How are you, Mr. Diedeshiemer? 373 00:20:42,434 --> 00:20:44,367 All right, Phil, see if you can make it. 374 00:20:49,868 --> 00:20:51,067 Got him, Hoss? 375 00:20:51,133 --> 00:20:53,767 Yeah, I got him. 376 00:20:53,834 --> 00:20:56,000 Easy, easy. 377 00:20:56,067 --> 00:20:57,634 You might have a broken bone. 378 00:20:57,701 --> 00:20:58,868 There's one of 'em, boys. 379 00:20:58,934 --> 00:21:00,534 Let's get him. 380 00:21:04,501 --> 00:21:05,934 Take him out, boys. 381 00:21:07,067 --> 00:21:08,667 Here we are. 382 00:21:15,567 --> 00:21:17,601 You all right? Yeah, come on. 383 00:21:17,667 --> 00:21:19,434 MAN: Here they come. 384 00:21:20,834 --> 00:21:22,767 (indistinct chatter) 385 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,467 Gil! Where's Gil? 386 00:21:29,534 --> 00:21:31,667 Miss Helene, I... I want to talk to you. 387 00:21:31,734 --> 00:21:33,901 Oh, that Gil. 388 00:21:33,968 --> 00:21:36,701 He's always the first one down and the last one up. 389 00:21:36,767 --> 00:21:40,467 I suppose he's still down there looking around. 390 00:21:40,534 --> 00:21:42,167 That's what it is, Hoss, isn't it? 391 00:21:43,701 --> 00:21:45,067 Ma'am, let me take you home. 392 00:21:45,133 --> 00:21:48,400 Oh, no. No, I've, I've got to wait here for Gil. 393 00:21:48,467 --> 00:21:50,734 He promised me nothing would happen to him. 394 00:21:50,801 --> 00:21:53,133 He promised me! 395 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,868 Oh, Hoss, oh, Hoss, tell me nothing's happened. 396 00:21:58,234 --> 00:22:00,834 Ma'am, I... I can't lie to you. 397 00:22:00,901 --> 00:22:02,767 I, I can't make it no easier on you. 398 00:22:02,834 --> 00:22:04,000 Then I've got to go down. 399 00:22:04,067 --> 00:22:05,601 I've got to see him. 400 00:22:05,667 --> 00:22:07,367 Don't you understand? I've got to see him! 401 00:22:07,434 --> 00:22:09,367 I've got to see him! 402 00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:17,934 Oh, Gil... 403 00:22:22,167 --> 00:22:24,934 (cries): Oh... 404 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,234 Gil... 405 00:22:36,033 --> 00:22:37,467 Where's Gil? 406 00:22:37,534 --> 00:22:38,701 He's still down there. 407 00:22:38,767 --> 00:22:40,601 Well, go get him, Adam. I want to talk to him. 408 00:22:40,667 --> 00:22:42,734 What I'm trying to tell you is... 409 00:22:42,801 --> 00:22:45,200 What he means is... 410 00:22:45,267 --> 00:22:46,801 Gil is dead, Daddy. 411 00:22:46,868 --> 00:22:48,934 What? 412 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,801 That's the word he was looking for, "dead." 413 00:22:51,868 --> 00:22:54,634 But it's a dirty word and no one wants to say it. 414 00:22:54,701 --> 00:22:55,901 Not here in this house. 415 00:22:55,968 --> 00:22:56,901 Not on this level. 416 00:22:56,968 --> 00:22:59,133 The stockholders might hear. 417 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,901 Dead is a word for, for men who work down in the ground, 418 00:23:01,968 --> 00:23:04,334 not for people like us. 419 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,367 We, we can't talk about a man who's buried 420 00:23:06,434 --> 00:23:09,334 under 50 tons of rock, but he's dead just the same! 421 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:10,501 Oh, Daddy! Helene. 422 00:23:10,567 --> 00:23:11,734 (Helene sobs) 423 00:23:11,801 --> 00:23:13,434 I'll give her a sedative. 424 00:23:13,501 --> 00:23:15,100 You come along. You, too. 425 00:23:23,634 --> 00:23:25,901 Gil, dead? 426 00:23:27,667 --> 00:23:30,601 Well, I'll have to hire a new superintendent. 427 00:23:32,167 --> 00:23:35,701 Mr. Holloway... 428 00:23:35,767 --> 00:23:39,634 if that's the first thing you thought about, 429 00:23:39,701 --> 00:23:42,133 I feel real sorry for you. 430 00:23:44,968 --> 00:23:47,467 Well, I guess that should about do it. 431 00:23:47,534 --> 00:23:48,801 ADAM: Thanks, doc. 432 00:23:50,033 --> 00:23:51,501 Mr. Diedeshiemer? 433 00:23:51,567 --> 00:23:53,334 I told you to get some rest. 434 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,334 Now, you're pushing yourself much too far. 435 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,400 Would you rest, doctor, if there were a plague afoot 436 00:23:58,467 --> 00:24:01,300 and somewhere in that little black bag of yours, 437 00:24:01,367 --> 00:24:03,200 there was a pill you knew could cure it? 438 00:24:03,267 --> 00:24:05,834 Would you rest until you had found that pill? 439 00:24:05,901 --> 00:24:07,968 Well, my head is like your little black bag. 440 00:24:08,033 --> 00:24:10,934 Somewhere inside it, is a pill of information, 441 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,033 long forgotten-- 442 00:24:13,100 --> 00:24:15,367 a solution to these mine disasters. 443 00:24:15,434 --> 00:24:17,234 I have to find that pill, doctor! 444 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:19,934 Well, you better slow down or I won't be responsible. 445 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,934 Every man is responsible to himself, doctor. 446 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,167 Does your head feel good enough to use? 447 00:24:28,234 --> 00:24:29,834 Let's get to work. 448 00:24:32,834 --> 00:24:34,767 Now... 449 00:24:36,701 --> 00:24:38,501 Mr. Diedeshiemer, I've been thinking... 450 00:24:38,567 --> 00:24:40,000 Are you an engineer? 451 00:24:40,067 --> 00:24:42,501 Well, no, but... 452 00:24:42,567 --> 00:24:44,334 Then I'm not in the least interested 453 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:45,667 in what you've been thinking. 454 00:24:45,734 --> 00:24:46,968 Please go. 455 00:24:47,033 --> 00:24:48,467 Now, wait a minute! 456 00:24:48,534 --> 00:24:49,601 This is my home! 457 00:24:49,667 --> 00:24:52,067 At the moment, it is my office, 458 00:24:52,133 --> 00:24:54,501 and I want no interruptions. Please. 459 00:25:00,033 --> 00:25:02,067 Now... 460 00:25:02,133 --> 00:25:04,934 So we have... 461 00:25:07,868 --> 00:25:09,567 Why ain't you at work? 462 00:25:09,634 --> 00:25:13,167 Mr. Holloway, I refuse to send those men back down. 463 00:25:13,234 --> 00:25:14,267 You "refuse"? 464 00:25:14,334 --> 00:25:15,734 I believe the same as Gil. 465 00:25:15,801 --> 00:25:17,167 Close down a few days. 466 00:25:17,234 --> 00:25:19,934 Get a chance to make some proper tests and experiments. 467 00:25:22,033 --> 00:25:23,667 Casey, you're fired. 468 00:25:23,734 --> 00:25:24,834 What? 469 00:25:24,901 --> 00:25:26,634 I said, "You're fired." 470 00:25:30,501 --> 00:25:32,267 Tregallis? (door opens) 471 00:25:32,334 --> 00:25:33,701 Can you handle Casey's job? 472 00:25:33,767 --> 00:25:35,701 (door closes) 473 00:25:37,167 --> 00:25:39,267 Mr. Holloway... 474 00:25:39,334 --> 00:25:41,167 I never did want to see you shut down. 475 00:25:41,234 --> 00:25:43,667 Like I said to Gil last time I talked to him, 476 00:25:43,734 --> 00:25:46,501 "I can get that shift back to work." 477 00:25:46,567 --> 00:25:48,501 See that you do. 478 00:25:50,667 --> 00:25:52,534 Another thing I'd do, Mr. Holloway. 479 00:25:52,601 --> 00:25:54,834 I'd order that Dutchman to stay away from the men. 480 00:25:54,901 --> 00:25:57,000 He wastes an awful lot of time. 481 00:25:57,067 --> 00:25:59,067 I'd tell him to take care of his own work. 482 00:25:59,133 --> 00:26:00,901 Leave our boys alone. 483 00:26:00,968 --> 00:26:02,267 You're in charge. Go tell him. 484 00:26:02,334 --> 00:26:03,734 He's right upstairs. 485 00:26:07,434 --> 00:26:10,734 That's the problem, Adam, and it is increasing every day. 486 00:26:10,801 --> 00:26:14,067 The veins of silver grow wider the deeper they go. 487 00:26:14,133 --> 00:26:17,067 I know and the U-bracing that we use in a narrow stope 488 00:26:17,133 --> 00:26:19,400 becomes worthless in a 65-foot wide gallery. 489 00:26:19,467 --> 00:26:21,634 And it is not only the overhead pressure, Adam. 490 00:26:21,701 --> 00:26:23,734 There's a constant side pressure as well. 491 00:26:23,801 --> 00:26:25,100 I want to talk to you, Dutchman. 492 00:26:25,167 --> 00:26:27,267 Vertical bracing and cap pieces certainly, 493 00:26:27,334 --> 00:26:29,367 but it would be standing so thick 494 00:26:29,434 --> 00:26:30,868 a man couldn't get through. 495 00:26:30,934 --> 00:26:32,601 I'm in charge now. 496 00:26:32,667 --> 00:26:34,133 We are very busy. And even 497 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,767 the tower bracing you suggested... 498 00:26:35,834 --> 00:26:37,634 Listen to me when I'm talking to you! 499 00:26:37,701 --> 00:26:39,868 You're going to take orders, just like the rest of the men! 500 00:26:39,934 --> 00:26:42,501 But how are you going to get 65-foot timbers 501 00:26:42,567 --> 00:26:43,834 down a mine shaft? 502 00:26:43,901 --> 00:26:46,300 And I want you to stay away from the men, hear me? 503 00:26:46,367 --> 00:26:47,467 They're down there to work, 504 00:26:47,534 --> 00:26:48,934 not to visit with you. 505 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,601 And there's another thing, Dutchman... 506 00:26:55,601 --> 00:26:58,767 I believe in a little formality. 507 00:26:58,834 --> 00:27:00,801 Now, where were we? 508 00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:04,701 Oh, yeah... 509 00:27:06,133 --> 00:27:08,067 Miss Helene? 510 00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:13,234 Miss Helene... 511 00:27:14,968 --> 00:27:16,901 I know you're sorry. 512 00:27:18,467 --> 00:27:21,067 That's not exactly what I was going to say, ma'am. 513 00:27:23,634 --> 00:27:26,567 Folks mean well when they say that they're sorry. 514 00:27:27,968 --> 00:27:31,300 It's like when my mama was still alive. 515 00:27:31,367 --> 00:27:35,434 I remember I used to mash my finger 516 00:27:35,501 --> 00:27:39,934 and she'd kiss it and tell me the pain was all gone. 517 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,601 It wasn't really. 518 00:27:42,667 --> 00:27:44,601 It's just that 519 00:27:44,667 --> 00:27:47,934 now when I try to remember the pain, 520 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,167 all I can remember is my mama kissing it away. 521 00:27:52,667 --> 00:27:57,100 So I smile bravely and lift my head... 522 00:27:58,334 --> 00:28:01,167 and there never was a Gil Fenton in my life. 523 00:28:02,267 --> 00:28:04,701 No. 524 00:28:04,767 --> 00:28:07,067 No, you... 525 00:28:07,133 --> 00:28:09,667 You can sometimes forget the pain, 526 00:28:09,734 --> 00:28:14,367 but... you can't ever forget the love. 527 00:28:14,434 --> 00:28:15,701 Never. 528 00:28:15,767 --> 00:28:18,067 There's gonna always be 529 00:28:18,133 --> 00:28:20,234 a Gil Fenton in your life. 530 00:28:22,267 --> 00:28:24,200 I remember 531 00:28:24,267 --> 00:28:27,200 I was in love once with a girl. 532 00:28:28,968 --> 00:28:31,901 As much in love as a man can be, I reckon. 533 00:28:35,467 --> 00:28:38,067 I guess that sounds a little funny coming from me, don't it? 534 00:28:38,133 --> 00:28:40,334 Oh, no, it doesn't, Hoss. 535 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,400 She died. 536 00:28:44,167 --> 00:28:47,100 I know that my pa 537 00:28:47,167 --> 00:28:51,267 and Adam and Little Joe 538 00:28:51,334 --> 00:28:54,100 were sorry. 539 00:28:54,167 --> 00:28:55,901 But that just wasn't enough. 540 00:28:55,968 --> 00:28:57,901 Not right then, it wasn't. 541 00:28:57,968 --> 00:28:59,901 What did you do? 542 00:29:05,267 --> 00:29:07,534 I talked to God. 543 00:29:07,601 --> 00:29:10,534 He told me I was just going to have to keep on living. 544 00:29:23,801 --> 00:29:25,067 May I have permission 545 00:29:25,133 --> 00:29:27,901 to enter your mine, Mr. Tregallis? 546 00:29:27,968 --> 00:29:30,400 All right. Go ahead. 547 00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:39,934 Diedeshiemer! 548 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,467 Adam told me to find you and tell you that, 549 00:29:42,534 --> 00:29:44,734 that number six had shifted. 550 00:29:44,801 --> 00:29:47,868 And that the tower braces were ten degrees out of plumb, 551 00:29:47,934 --> 00:29:49,033 whatever that means. 552 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:50,901 It means, Hoss, that we now know 553 00:29:50,968 --> 00:29:53,000 one more thing that will not work. 554 00:29:53,067 --> 00:29:56,434 It means, also, that we must still find 555 00:29:56,501 --> 00:29:58,033 the one thing that will work. 556 00:29:58,100 --> 00:30:01,200 Oh, he told me I ought to talk you into getting some rest, too. 557 00:30:01,267 --> 00:30:03,601 (groans): Well, he may have said it, 558 00:30:03,667 --> 00:30:06,434 but he didn't mean for me to do it. 559 00:30:07,834 --> 00:30:09,767 But it would be good. 560 00:30:09,834 --> 00:30:11,534 So good. 561 00:30:11,601 --> 00:30:14,200 Stretch out for a while... 562 00:30:14,267 --> 00:30:17,434 Close my eyes against the sun 563 00:30:17,501 --> 00:30:20,634 and feel the life of the earth beneath me. 564 00:30:22,868 --> 00:30:25,501 But I would feel only the death, Hoss. 565 00:30:27,033 --> 00:30:28,467 Only the death. 566 00:30:28,534 --> 00:30:30,801 You feel all right, Mr. Diedeshiemer? 567 00:30:30,868 --> 00:30:33,701 "All right"? I don't know. 568 00:30:35,033 --> 00:30:37,133 That is a relative question, no? 569 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:44,767 I know only that my head is so full of vertical braces 570 00:30:44,834 --> 00:30:47,000 and cross braces and cap pieces 571 00:30:47,067 --> 00:30:49,067 and stulls and timbers, that my brain 572 00:30:49,133 --> 00:30:52,501 is like a bee swarm of unrelated facts, 573 00:30:52,567 --> 00:30:56,667 buzzing and churning, and working within a hive. 574 00:31:00,067 --> 00:31:02,100 A honeycomb... 575 00:31:02,167 --> 00:31:04,100 A honeycomb! Sir? 576 00:31:04,167 --> 00:31:05,901 I have it, Hoss! I have it! 577 00:31:05,968 --> 00:31:07,901 You got what? 578 00:31:07,968 --> 00:31:10,601 Go get me some one-inch boards, 579 00:31:10,667 --> 00:31:12,734 soft pine that I can cut with a jackknife. 580 00:31:12,801 --> 00:31:14,100 Go bring them to my room. 581 00:31:14,167 --> 00:31:15,767 I go get Adam. 582 00:31:19,334 --> 00:31:21,400 Why did I not see this, Adam? 583 00:31:21,467 --> 00:31:24,100 Each surface bearing on the other. 584 00:31:24,167 --> 00:31:27,601 The ratio of strength of each side of a honeycomb 585 00:31:27,667 --> 00:31:29,601 to the combined weight of the honey. 586 00:31:30,701 --> 00:31:32,801 Gently now. Gently. 587 00:31:32,868 --> 00:31:34,634 Come. 588 00:31:34,701 --> 00:31:36,434 Thank you, Hoss. 589 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,300 Now what in the blazes? 590 00:31:42,367 --> 00:31:43,968 The solution, Mr. Holloway. 591 00:31:44,033 --> 00:31:46,267 The solution to every cave-in 592 00:31:46,334 --> 00:31:48,801 and slippage problem in the Comstock mines. 593 00:31:48,868 --> 00:31:49,968 Hoss, please. 594 00:31:50,033 --> 00:31:51,968 Clean place on the table. 595 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,133 Thank you. 596 00:31:57,634 --> 00:31:59,868 Miss Helene, look here what Mr. Diedeshiemer and Adam built. 597 00:31:59,934 --> 00:32:01,367 Show 'em how it works, Mr. Diedeshiemer. 598 00:32:01,434 --> 00:32:04,868 You mean that's a system of mine bracing? 599 00:32:04,934 --> 00:32:07,334 It's the most perfect system I've ever seen in my whole life. 600 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,100 Are you such an expert? 601 00:32:09,167 --> 00:32:10,934 No, but Mr. Diedeshiemer is. 602 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,767 Philip, why don't you explain the principle? 603 00:32:12,834 --> 00:32:14,934 You see, Mr. Holloway... I can see the principle. 604 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,667 A square, open-sided, tower-bracing box, 605 00:32:18,734 --> 00:32:22,033 bearing equal pressure from all angles. 606 00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:25,667 Mm-hmm, and I suppose as the stope is dug wider, 607 00:32:25,734 --> 00:32:28,534 you propose to add another box. 608 00:32:28,601 --> 00:32:30,200 You can add them above, too. 609 00:32:30,267 --> 00:32:31,868 You can even build a floor in it. 610 00:32:31,934 --> 00:32:33,901 Very interesting, gentlemen. 611 00:32:33,968 --> 00:32:35,968 And very expensive. 612 00:32:36,033 --> 00:32:38,467 We can't use it. 613 00:32:38,534 --> 00:32:42,467 Dad... aren't you even going to consider it? 614 00:32:42,534 --> 00:32:43,634 But look at it, honey. 615 00:32:43,701 --> 00:32:44,968 It's a child's toy, 616 00:32:45,033 --> 00:32:46,868 a plaything of an impractical dreamer. 617 00:32:58,133 --> 00:33:00,067 You didn't even give them a chance. 618 00:33:00,133 --> 00:33:01,567 A chance to what? 619 00:33:01,634 --> 00:33:04,667 Play with toys while I've got a mine to run? 620 00:33:04,734 --> 00:33:06,701 You think I'm going to rip out the timbering 621 00:33:06,767 --> 00:33:09,434 I've got in that mine to try some crazy, new idea? 622 00:33:09,501 --> 00:33:11,434 But the timbering system you have is no good. 623 00:33:11,501 --> 00:33:14,501 We've been operating successfully with it for a long time now. 624 00:33:14,567 --> 00:33:18,100 Can't you understand I've got stockholders to think about? 625 00:33:18,167 --> 00:33:20,267 Oh, yes, I understand. 626 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,667 You and your faceless stockholders. 627 00:33:23,734 --> 00:33:26,601 Well, I have somebody to think about, too. 628 00:33:26,667 --> 00:33:30,767 Only he had a face and a body and arms to hold me with. 629 00:33:30,834 --> 00:33:33,601 And he's buried under 50 tons of rock, and you put him there! 630 00:33:33,667 --> 00:33:35,601 Helene! Wait a minute. 631 00:33:35,667 --> 00:33:36,767 Where are you going? 632 00:33:36,834 --> 00:33:38,467 Where do the rest of the mine widows go? 633 00:33:38,534 --> 00:33:40,434 If you'd only listen to me. 634 00:33:40,501 --> 00:33:42,868 I'm through listening to you, Father. 635 00:33:44,534 --> 00:33:48,133 And don't forget to send me my box of groceries. 636 00:33:55,133 --> 00:33:57,067 (knocking at door) Oh. 637 00:34:00,701 --> 00:34:02,634 We've been looking for you. 638 00:34:02,701 --> 00:34:05,067 Oh, I've been looking for myself, Adam. 639 00:34:06,467 --> 00:34:08,534 Yeah, this new model's coming along great. 640 00:34:08,601 --> 00:34:10,767 Well, I have created a good thing. 641 00:34:10,834 --> 00:34:12,434 But that is all it is-- 642 00:34:12,501 --> 00:34:15,234 a thing, a handful of smoke. 643 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:18,834 What good is it to write a book, if nobody reads it? 644 00:34:18,901 --> 00:34:22,400 Or to compose a song, if nobody ever sings it? 645 00:34:22,467 --> 00:34:26,000 Or to invent a new way of timbering a mine, 646 00:34:26,067 --> 00:34:27,767 if it is not used? 647 00:34:27,834 --> 00:34:28,834 Don't you worry. 648 00:34:28,901 --> 00:34:29,868 It'll be used, all right. 649 00:34:29,934 --> 00:34:32,601 PHILIP: When? When?! 650 00:34:32,667 --> 00:34:35,000 When another hundred men have died needlessly? 651 00:34:35,067 --> 00:34:38,701 It's such a radical departure from anything we've done before. 652 00:34:38,767 --> 00:34:41,033 Just take time to sell it to anyone. 653 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:44,834 Only the dead have time to wait, Adam. 654 00:34:44,901 --> 00:34:46,868 And we are concerned with the living. 655 00:34:46,934 --> 00:34:50,467 Well, the Ophir isn't the only mine on the Comstock. 656 00:34:50,534 --> 00:34:53,067 There's the, uh, Yellow Jacket, 657 00:34:53,133 --> 00:34:55,400 Gould and Curry, and the Mexican. 658 00:34:55,467 --> 00:34:56,567 We know the owners. 659 00:34:56,634 --> 00:34:58,400 We've sold timber to all of them. 660 00:34:58,467 --> 00:35:00,667 All we have to do is sell one of them the idea. 661 00:35:00,734 --> 00:35:03,200 Look, I am not a fishmonger, Adam, 662 00:35:03,267 --> 00:35:05,567 hawking a product on the streets. 663 00:35:05,634 --> 00:35:07,834 Well, then you let me worry about that end of it. 664 00:35:07,901 --> 00:35:09,400 You just finish this new model. 665 00:35:10,534 --> 00:35:12,501 Looks pretty elaborate. 666 00:35:12,567 --> 00:35:13,834 Oh, it's quite simple, really. 667 00:35:13,901 --> 00:35:16,701 A series of cribs, each surface bearing on the other. 668 00:35:16,767 --> 00:35:18,334 Now, that takes care of your side motion, 669 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,934 which has been one of your big problems. 670 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,100 Now, also, you see, with the wide veins 671 00:35:22,167 --> 00:35:23,934 that you're starting to hit, you can timber 672 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,434 as you stope in merely by adding another crib. 673 00:35:26,501 --> 00:35:27,934 Now, the same holds 674 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,934 true with working up above or down below, 675 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,400 which is an impossibility with your present timbering. 676 00:35:32,467 --> 00:35:34,267 Now, here, you could have an ore shoot 677 00:35:34,334 --> 00:35:36,701 running diagonally right up here through the sets. 678 00:35:36,767 --> 00:35:38,334 Any idea of the cost? 679 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:39,601 Well, really hadn't gone into it. 680 00:35:39,667 --> 00:35:41,434 I think Mr. Diedeshiemer was more concerned 681 00:35:41,501 --> 00:35:43,200 with safety rather than cost. 682 00:35:43,267 --> 00:35:46,100 Yeah, I'd heard that he was pretty much of a dreamer. 683 00:35:46,167 --> 00:35:48,334 Well, thanks for showing it to us, Adam. 684 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:49,801 Hey! 685 00:35:49,868 --> 00:35:51,767 Ain't you even going to let him finish telling you about it? 686 00:35:51,834 --> 00:35:53,934 Oh, I've seen enough to recognize the fact 687 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,868 that the cost would be prohibitive. 688 00:35:55,934 --> 00:35:57,567 I'm afraid you'll have to figure out 689 00:35:57,634 --> 00:35:59,133 some other way of selling timber, Adam. 690 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,200 You mean to tell me you think that's all Adam 691 00:36:01,267 --> 00:36:03,067 and Mr. Diedeshiemer have been doing day and night, 692 00:36:03,133 --> 00:36:05,133 is figuring out another way to sell timber? 693 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:06,801 Oh, stay out of it, Hoss. 694 00:36:06,868 --> 00:36:08,200 I won't stay out of it. 695 00:36:08,267 --> 00:36:10,133 I don't like what this woodpecker's saying to you. 696 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:11,934 Oh, really, now. 697 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,234 We don't have to pretend with each other. 698 00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:16,067 We're in the mining business to make money 699 00:36:16,133 --> 00:36:18,100 and you should be able to understand that. 700 00:36:18,167 --> 00:36:20,133 No Cartwright ever made a move 701 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,534 unless there was a dollar in it for him someplace. 702 00:36:22,601 --> 00:36:24,300 Mister, you're the biggest 703 00:36:24,367 --> 00:36:26,200 flannel-mouth liar on the Comstock. 704 00:36:27,667 --> 00:36:28,868 Do you know who I am? 705 00:36:28,934 --> 00:36:30,300 I sure do. And you do, too, 706 00:36:30,367 --> 00:36:31,734 'cause I just got through telling you. 707 00:36:31,801 --> 00:36:33,667 My brother isn't the world's finest diplomat, 708 00:36:33,734 --> 00:36:36,434 but he's managed to express my own feelings pretty accurately. 709 00:36:36,501 --> 00:36:38,434 Well... 710 00:36:38,501 --> 00:36:40,434 It might work. 711 00:36:40,501 --> 00:36:42,200 Sure, but the system we're using now 712 00:36:42,267 --> 00:36:44,100 can be put in for one tenth the cost. 713 00:36:44,167 --> 00:36:46,400 Why did Holloway ever hire that Dutchman in the first place? 714 00:36:46,467 --> 00:36:48,367 Oh, now, don't sell Holloway short. 715 00:36:48,434 --> 00:36:49,968 He hires this safety engineer 716 00:36:50,033 --> 00:36:51,767 and the crusaders leave him alone. 717 00:36:51,834 --> 00:36:53,934 I know, but now he's come up with this fantastic idea... 718 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,901 You don't find Holloway using it, do you? 719 00:36:55,968 --> 00:36:58,934 Well, is there anybody else we can talk to, Adam? 720 00:36:59,033 --> 00:37:00,801 No, that's about all of them. 721 00:37:00,868 --> 00:37:02,968 Besides I'm tired of talking. 722 00:37:03,033 --> 00:37:05,067 You ain't gonna give up, are you? 723 00:37:05,133 --> 00:37:06,801 No, I said, "I'm tired of talking." 724 00:37:06,868 --> 00:37:08,567 Well, what are we going to do? 725 00:37:08,634 --> 00:37:10,234 Well, what do the Cartwrights always do 726 00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:11,400 when it comes right down to it? 727 00:37:11,467 --> 00:37:12,901 We'll do it ourselves. 728 00:37:12,968 --> 00:37:14,968 You mean we're going to make a big one of these things 729 00:37:15,033 --> 00:37:17,868 and stick it down in old Holloway's mine without even telling him about it? 730 00:37:17,934 --> 00:37:20,400 Why tell him? He'll know it's there when he sees it tomorrow. 731 00:37:21,601 --> 00:37:24,234 "Tomorrow"? I said "tomorrow." 732 00:37:24,300 --> 00:37:26,367 Adam, I heard you and Mr. Diedeshiemer talking 733 00:37:26,434 --> 00:37:28,667 and them timbers are big; they got to be milled and cut. 734 00:37:28,734 --> 00:37:30,334 How you gonna do all that by tomorrow? 735 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,367 Well, now, we own a sawmill, don't we? 736 00:37:32,434 --> 00:37:34,534 Now, we'll just give this job to our younger brother 737 00:37:34,601 --> 00:37:36,601 and tell him it's impossible to do. 738 00:37:36,667 --> 00:37:39,000 (chuckles): Yeah, that ought to do it. 739 00:37:43,734 --> 00:37:45,667 "We'll get started first thing in the morning," that's what old Adam said. 740 00:37:45,734 --> 00:37:47,000 And we will, too. You wait and see. 741 00:37:47,067 --> 00:37:49,167 When my pa and Adam and my younger brother, Little Joe, 742 00:37:49,234 --> 00:37:50,634 put their head to something, it gets done. 743 00:37:50,701 --> 00:37:55,367 You're very proud of your family, aren't you, Hoss? 744 00:37:55,434 --> 00:37:57,567 Yes, sir, I sure am. 745 00:37:57,634 --> 00:38:01,467 Oh, it's a fine thing to have a strong family. 746 00:38:01,534 --> 00:38:03,534 Yes, sir. 747 00:38:03,601 --> 00:38:06,667 Pa's always kept us mighty close together. 748 00:38:06,734 --> 00:38:09,267 You see, we're just half brothers. 749 00:38:09,334 --> 00:38:10,834 Oh? 750 00:38:10,901 --> 00:38:12,567 Yes, sir. 751 00:38:12,634 --> 00:38:15,901 My pa has had a terrible lot of tragedy in his life. 752 00:38:15,968 --> 00:38:19,467 "Tragedy." Yeah. 753 00:38:19,534 --> 00:38:22,767 But this has made of him a finer man. 754 00:38:22,834 --> 00:38:26,234 And it's helped draw you all closer together 755 00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:27,901 as a family, no? 756 00:38:27,968 --> 00:38:30,300 Yes, sir. 757 00:38:30,367 --> 00:38:31,834 I reckon it has. 758 00:38:33,467 --> 00:38:36,501 The girl, Helene... 759 00:38:36,567 --> 00:38:39,467 You must try to make her see this. 760 00:38:39,534 --> 00:38:42,334 Hoss, right now, 761 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,167 she sees only her own loss. 762 00:38:46,667 --> 00:38:49,601 But nothing is lost, ever. 763 00:38:50,834 --> 00:38:53,367 And nothing is ever destroyed. 764 00:38:53,434 --> 00:38:56,067 The miners who were killed 765 00:38:56,133 --> 00:38:58,767 because of improper timbering in these mines, 766 00:38:58,834 --> 00:39:01,901 they have found a new method of timbering, Hoss. 767 00:39:01,968 --> 00:39:04,467 I did not do it, they did. 768 00:39:04,534 --> 00:39:06,934 I am only 769 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,167 the instrument that carried out the plan, 770 00:39:11,234 --> 00:39:12,400 no more than that. 771 00:39:12,467 --> 00:39:14,934 Mr. Diedeshiemer, 772 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,934 folks are going to remember you for an awful long time. 773 00:39:20,033 --> 00:39:21,901 Miss Helene. 774 00:39:21,968 --> 00:39:23,868 Sit down, Miss Holloway. 775 00:39:23,934 --> 00:39:25,868 Please. 776 00:39:28,634 --> 00:39:29,634 What's the matter? 777 00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:31,968 "Matter"? 778 00:39:33,801 --> 00:39:37,567 I've been walking around, looking into the faces of women 779 00:39:37,634 --> 00:39:41,100 who have lost their husbands in the mines. 780 00:39:41,167 --> 00:39:44,567 I've been searching their eyes, wondering 781 00:39:44,634 --> 00:39:46,801 if they know my father is a murderer. 782 00:39:46,868 --> 00:39:50,767 Ma'am, you shouldn't ought to talk like that. 783 00:39:50,834 --> 00:39:53,367 Not about your own pa. No. 784 00:39:53,434 --> 00:39:55,334 Maybe he ain't done all he could do, 785 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,033 but at least he's tried. 786 00:39:57,100 --> 00:39:58,601 He hired Mr. Diedeshiemer. 787 00:39:58,667 --> 00:40:00,567 But he hasn't let him do anything. 788 00:40:00,634 --> 00:40:02,167 And he won't. 789 00:40:02,234 --> 00:40:04,434 Well, it don't really make no difference if he don't. 790 00:40:04,501 --> 00:40:06,033 'Cause we're gonna do it anyhow. 791 00:40:06,100 --> 00:40:07,868 What do you mean? 792 00:40:07,934 --> 00:40:10,634 Pa and Adam and Little Joe are up there in the hills right now 793 00:40:10,701 --> 00:40:11,834 at the sawmill milling the timber 794 00:40:11,901 --> 00:40:13,334 we're going to put down that mine, 795 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,133 so Mr. Diedeshiemer here can make the test he wants to make. 796 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,067 Does my father know about this? 797 00:40:18,133 --> 00:40:21,434 Well, I... I reckon Adam sort of forgot to tell him. 798 00:40:27,100 --> 00:40:28,968 Do you really think that my father 799 00:40:29,033 --> 00:40:30,834 and the other mine owners would let you do this? 800 00:40:30,901 --> 00:40:34,934 Oh, ma'am, we ain't gonna charge him for it. 801 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,400 Besides, how they gonna stop us? 802 00:40:36,467 --> 00:40:37,901 Stop you? 803 00:40:37,968 --> 00:40:40,300 Hoss, don't you understand? 804 00:40:40,367 --> 00:40:42,701 They can hire 50 men with clubs 805 00:40:42,767 --> 00:40:44,601 to stop you if they want to. 806 00:40:44,667 --> 00:40:47,234 What'd they want to do a thing like that for? 807 00:40:47,300 --> 00:40:50,767 I'm afraid this does go much further than, uh, 808 00:40:50,834 --> 00:40:53,167 a test installation, Hoss. 809 00:40:53,234 --> 00:40:55,567 Once it's in there, and the men see it, 810 00:40:55,634 --> 00:40:59,334 they won't be satisfied with any other system of timbering. 811 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,367 Mr. Diedeshiemer, 812 00:41:02,434 --> 00:41:05,801 do you want that timber down there in that mine? 813 00:41:05,868 --> 00:41:06,834 (sighs) 814 00:41:06,901 --> 00:41:09,367 Yeah, very much, Hoss. 815 00:41:09,434 --> 00:41:12,033 Well, we're gonna put it down there for you. 816 00:41:12,100 --> 00:41:14,601 And if any of them fellas try to stop us, 817 00:41:14,667 --> 00:41:17,601 well, I... I reckon that'll be my business. 818 00:41:25,501 --> 00:41:28,267 (indistinct chatter) 819 00:41:28,334 --> 00:41:31,167 I didn't really think they'd do it. 820 00:41:31,234 --> 00:41:33,234 I reckon you must know 'em better than I do. 821 00:41:37,167 --> 00:41:39,100 I don't see my father with them. 822 00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:51,834 There's a rumor around that you plan to do 823 00:41:51,901 --> 00:41:53,934 some special timbering in Mr. Holloway's mine. 824 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,200 Well, this is one time that a rumor's correct. 825 00:41:56,267 --> 00:41:57,968 You Cartwrights don't own this mine. 826 00:41:58,033 --> 00:41:59,200 You've got no business here. 827 00:41:59,267 --> 00:42:01,133 Now, you don't own this mine, either, mister. 828 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:02,968 Why don't you let Mr. Holloway tell me? 829 00:42:03,033 --> 00:42:04,834 We haven't been able to find Mr. Holloway, 830 00:42:04,901 --> 00:42:06,167 but his interests are ours, 831 00:42:06,234 --> 00:42:08,334 and we're here to see that they're protected. 832 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:09,667 Take him off there. 833 00:42:38,234 --> 00:42:40,234 (grunting) 834 00:42:55,868 --> 00:42:57,667 All right, break this up! 835 00:42:57,734 --> 00:42:59,667 I'm still in charge here! 836 00:43:01,033 --> 00:43:03,400 Andrew! We couldn't find you. 837 00:43:03,467 --> 00:43:05,100 We came here to protect your interests. 838 00:43:05,167 --> 00:43:07,067 I can take care of my own interest. 839 00:43:07,133 --> 00:43:08,868 And that's just what I've been doing. 840 00:43:08,934 --> 00:43:10,734 But they were planning to build some of those 841 00:43:10,801 --> 00:43:12,067 monkey cages down in your mine. 842 00:43:12,133 --> 00:43:14,868 I'm aware of what they were planning to do. 843 00:43:14,934 --> 00:43:16,367 I'm helping them to do it. 844 00:43:16,434 --> 00:43:18,734 Why, Andrew, have you lost your senses? 845 00:43:18,801 --> 00:43:23,601 No, I haven't lost my senses. 846 00:43:23,667 --> 00:43:26,267 I've just found them. 847 00:43:26,334 --> 00:43:28,133 How long since any of you 848 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,334 have been down in one of your mines? 849 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,367 (owners grumbling) Well, maybe you should, gentlemen. 850 00:43:33,434 --> 00:43:35,701 I just did and I don't like what I saw. 851 00:43:37,868 --> 00:43:39,200 I don't know if Mr. Diedeshiemer's 852 00:43:39,267 --> 00:43:41,567 system of timbering will work or not, 853 00:43:41,634 --> 00:43:43,701 but he's going to get a chance to try it. 854 00:43:43,767 --> 00:43:46,234 (owners grumbling) 855 00:43:55,033 --> 00:43:57,167 Adam and the other boys will unload that lumber 856 00:43:57,234 --> 00:43:58,467 right where you want it. 857 00:43:58,534 --> 00:44:00,801 If you need me, well, just holler. 858 00:44:15,334 --> 00:44:17,267 Fine. Exactly. 859 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,167 This is fine. 860 00:44:26,234 --> 00:44:27,834 You go now, huh? 861 00:44:27,901 --> 00:44:29,667 Thank you. 862 00:44:33,334 --> 00:44:35,133 Are you satisfied, Philip? 863 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,367 It is still an impractical man's dream, Adam. 864 00:44:38,434 --> 00:44:41,200 An invention is never completed until it is 865 00:44:41,267 --> 00:44:43,300 put to the test of serving the purpose 866 00:44:43,367 --> 00:44:44,467 for which it was designed. 867 00:44:44,534 --> 00:44:46,567 Well, you wait for me up above. 868 00:44:46,634 --> 00:44:49,267 Huh? I would like to stay here and look at this for awhile. 869 00:44:49,334 --> 00:44:50,634 Oh, no, you don't. 870 00:44:50,701 --> 00:44:51,968 What's the matter? 871 00:44:53,868 --> 00:44:56,601 I found your bag... 872 00:44:56,667 --> 00:44:59,300 with the powder; you didn't do a good job of hiding it. 873 00:44:59,367 --> 00:45:02,234 It's too dangerous, Adam. 874 00:45:02,300 --> 00:45:03,801 I'm game if you are. 875 00:45:03,868 --> 00:45:05,868 I don't want any more men killed. 876 00:45:05,934 --> 00:45:07,634 Neither do I. 877 00:45:07,701 --> 00:45:09,501 But I would like to be with you. 878 00:45:09,567 --> 00:45:11,567 Sort of a promise I made to Gil. 879 00:45:11,634 --> 00:45:13,267 All right. 880 00:45:13,334 --> 00:45:15,334 We'll see this thing through together. 881 00:45:16,801 --> 00:45:19,234 This is good. 882 00:45:19,300 --> 00:45:21,267 Now, for the final test. 883 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,100 Why, you're wasting our time, Holloway. 884 00:45:31,167 --> 00:45:33,200 You better take a good look at it, because you're going to see 885 00:45:33,267 --> 00:45:35,267 a lot of this kind of timbering from now on. 886 00:45:35,334 --> 00:45:36,934 Not in my mine, you won't. 887 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,868 Well... this is it. 888 00:45:40,934 --> 00:45:42,868 Good luck, Philip. 889 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,267 (fuse fizzing) 890 00:45:45,334 --> 00:45:46,767 Come. 891 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:52,634 Mr. Holloway, you should not be here. 892 00:45:52,701 --> 00:45:55,167 It's still my mine, and these gentlemen 893 00:45:55,234 --> 00:45:56,501 are a little hard to convince. 894 00:45:56,567 --> 00:45:57,968 You don't understand. We're making a test. 895 00:45:58,033 --> 00:45:59,534 Don't test it too hard 896 00:45:59,601 --> 00:46:01,801 or your monkey cage will fall down on your head. 897 00:46:01,868 --> 00:46:04,367 I hope not, gentlemen. I believe not. 898 00:46:04,434 --> 00:46:06,334 But we will soon know. 899 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:07,667 We've set a blast to test it. 900 00:46:07,734 --> 00:46:09,234 (chuckles) 901 00:46:09,300 --> 00:46:11,000 I can imagine your being down here 902 00:46:11,067 --> 00:46:12,567 with a blast about to go off. 903 00:46:12,634 --> 00:46:15,234 Your workmen do it every day, don't they? Oh, yes, but with... 904 00:46:15,300 --> 00:46:17,367 With your present system of timbering. 905 00:46:17,434 --> 00:46:19,033 Well, you're standing under some of it now. 906 00:46:19,100 --> 00:46:21,000 You may stay here if you feel safer. 907 00:46:21,067 --> 00:46:23,601 I prefer to stay over here. So do I. 908 00:46:26,033 --> 00:46:27,901 Why, you fool, we'll all be killed! 909 00:46:27,968 --> 00:46:30,567 Boys, the old timbering is right behind you. 910 00:46:30,634 --> 00:46:31,868 Go ahead and stay under it. 911 00:46:31,934 --> 00:46:34,000 ADAM: You'd better hurry. 912 00:46:48,801 --> 00:46:50,734 (men coughing) 913 00:46:54,501 --> 00:46:57,601 Well, I think this held up rather well, 914 00:46:57,667 --> 00:46:59,601 don't you, gentlemen? 915 00:47:06,167 --> 00:47:07,634 Very impressive. 916 00:47:07,701 --> 00:47:09,534 But I still won't hold still for it. 917 00:47:09,601 --> 00:47:10,734 And why not? 918 00:47:10,801 --> 00:47:12,234 Isn't it pretty obvious? 919 00:47:12,300 --> 00:47:14,968 This man undoubtedly has a patent on his timbering system, 920 00:47:15,033 --> 00:47:17,534 and plans to rob us blind collecting royalties. 921 00:47:17,601 --> 00:47:18,801 (crowd murmuring) 922 00:47:18,868 --> 00:47:20,868 I am afraid I'm not so wise as you. 923 00:47:20,934 --> 00:47:24,434 I do not know the dollar and cent worth of a human life. 924 00:47:24,501 --> 00:47:28,234 I only know it is very dear. 925 00:47:28,300 --> 00:47:31,901 I have no patent, no desire to charge royalty. 926 00:47:32,968 --> 00:47:35,434 If my invention saves human lives, 927 00:47:35,501 --> 00:47:37,701 surely that is payment enough for any man. 928 00:47:37,767 --> 00:47:39,834 Wait a moment, Philip. 929 00:47:39,901 --> 00:47:41,300 Ladies and gentlemen, 930 00:47:41,367 --> 00:47:43,234 we have just made a practical test 931 00:47:43,300 --> 00:47:46,000 of the new Diedeshiemer system of timbering. 932 00:47:46,067 --> 00:47:48,534 Any of these gentlemen here can attest to the fact 933 00:47:48,601 --> 00:47:50,033 that it was a complete success. 934 00:47:50,100 --> 00:47:52,934 (cheering and applause) 935 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,901 I'm closing the Ophir till it's completely re-timbered 936 00:47:55,968 --> 00:47:58,067 with the Diedeshiemer square sets. 937 00:47:58,133 --> 00:48:00,100 Every man will be paid his regular wages 938 00:48:00,167 --> 00:48:01,200 while the work goes on. 939 00:48:01,267 --> 00:48:03,033 (cheering and applause) 940 00:48:03,100 --> 00:48:04,434 Ladies and gentlemen. 941 00:48:05,601 --> 00:48:06,968 Here's the man who's put an end 942 00:48:07,067 --> 00:48:09,167 to all the mine cave-ins on the Comstock, 943 00:48:09,234 --> 00:48:10,667 Mr. Philip Diedeshiemer. 944 00:48:10,734 --> 00:48:13,400 (cheering and applause) 945 00:48:13,467 --> 00:48:16,300 Every mine owner will have to put in square sets now, you watch. 946 00:48:16,367 --> 00:48:18,634 This whole town will be sitting on one, big honeycomb. 947 00:48:18,701 --> 00:48:20,567 (laughter) 948 00:48:20,634 --> 00:48:22,400 It's a great thing you've done, Philip. 949 00:48:22,467 --> 00:48:24,400 We did it together. 950 00:48:29,801 --> 00:48:30,968 Listen, I'm hungry. 951 00:48:31,033 --> 00:48:32,634 Ain't you starved? 952 00:48:33,968 --> 00:48:36,067 On the contrary, Hoss. 953 00:48:36,133 --> 00:48:38,567 Right now, I feel... 954 00:48:38,634 --> 00:48:40,434 I feel very full. 955 00:48:41,667 --> 00:48:44,300 Mr. Diedeshiemer, I told you once that 956 00:48:44,367 --> 00:48:46,834 folks was gonna remember you for a awful long time. 957 00:48:46,901 --> 00:48:48,801 And they would, too, if they could remember your name, 958 00:48:48,868 --> 00:48:50,501 but it's so dang-blasted hard to pronounce. 959 00:48:50,567 --> 00:48:52,567 Well, don't worry about that, Hoss. 960 00:48:52,634 --> 00:48:54,200 Names are never very important. 961 00:48:54,267 --> 00:48:56,934 Anyway, it's easier to pronounce "The Dutchman." 962 00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:58,601 Come on, let's get some supper, huh?