After Gene discovers copper on his ranch, Bennett tries to get control of the fortune by framing him in a jail-break.
Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a men is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.—Maurice VanAuken <[email protected]>