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Philip Diedesheimer, a Pied Piper, is refused payment after he saves Virginia City's silver mines from a cave-in.
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00:24What's this for?
00:26Because I love you.
00:27And because this is my engagement party.
00:30Now remember, you promised no talking about mine business tonight.
00:35Promise?
00:37I promise.
01:06Well, here he is.
01:08How did you ever pry him away?
01:10It wasn't too hard to do.
01:12Well, I told him if he didn't come to this party, I'd refuse to be best man and marry him
01:16myself.
01:16I didn't want to take that chance.
01:22Forget about being superintendent for one night, Gil.
01:25The mine will run all right without you.
01:27I sent the night shift back to work on the third level.
01:29You what?
01:30I told you we couldn't work the third level without new timbering.
01:34Dad, you promised no mine talk.
01:37I told you we couldn't work the third level without new timbering.
02:07I told you we couldn't work the third level without new timbering.
02:41All right, everybody, stand back.
02:44Give us room.
02:45My boy.
02:46Where's my boy?
02:48It's all right, Mary.
02:50I'll find him.
02:56Mr. Holloway, you promised us new safety, timbering.
03:01I'm doing all I can.
03:03Come on, dear.
03:04You ought to go home.
03:05It's all right.
03:06You'll be all right.
03:11You said that third level wasn't safe, but you sent the ship in anyway.
03:15You said yourself it wasn't safe.
03:16Get out of the way, Tregalis.
03:18You used to be one of us.
03:20Now you're marrying Holloway's daughter.
03:22Gil's doing everything he can, Tregalis.
03:23When?
03:24Like always?
03:25When it's too late?
03:26My kid brother's down there.
03:27Now you get out of my way, Cartwright.
03:33All right, stand back.
03:34Keep on back.
03:35It's coming up now.
03:36Give us room.
03:36There's two of them.
03:37Move on back.
03:39It's Pat!
03:40Pat!
03:41All right, bring him on out.
03:42Pat!
03:44Pat!
03:49Thank God you were here.
03:53East slope.
03:54Third level.
03:56Every timber seemed to buckle at once as they set off a blast above us.
03:58Same as last week.
04:00Every time it's the same thing.
04:03Go down the way.
04:06Gil, you're not going down there, are you?
04:08If I'd stayed down there where I belong, this might not have happened.
04:11Don't let what Tregalis said get under your hide.
04:13If my kid brother was trapped down there, I'd think of something worse to say than Tregalis said.
04:23Adam, you don't have to come down with me.
04:25That's my timber you're using, isn't it?
04:28All right, bud.
04:29Let her go!
04:36How do they stand it time after time?
04:39It's like living on top of a powder cake waiting for that disaster whistle to blow.
04:43It's part of mining, Elaine.
04:51Entered on the report.
04:53Make sure each of the widows gets a usual box of groceries.
04:58A box of groceries in exchange for a dead husband.
05:01It's company policy.
05:02And it's a terrible thing.
05:05I'm sorry this had to happen tonight.
05:07I suppose we could party everything.
05:25Elaine, this is ridiculous.
05:27It's two o'clock in the morning.
05:29Let's go home and get some sleep.
05:31Daddy, those women won't sleep tonight.
05:33They each have a man down there, and so do I.
05:42Gil.
05:45Oh, Billy, are you all right?
05:48I'm all right.
05:56You want to tell them?
05:59Tell them what?
06:00That there's nobody else coming up out of there.
06:03Not tonight.
06:05Not ever.
06:07Not ever.
06:46How soon can you give me a report?
06:51It'll be on your desk.
06:53Cold black figures against a white piece of paper.
06:57Five dead.
06:57Two dying.
06:58Five missing.
06:59Fourteen injured.
07:00But no slow-up in production, Mr. Holloway.
07:03Does that make you happy?
07:05Stop it, Gil.
07:06I'm sick of it.
07:07Gil, you shouldn't have gone down there.
07:10No, that's right.
07:11I should have stayed at the party.
07:13I'm a superintendent now,
07:14and the men I used to work with aren't human beings anymore.
07:17Aren't you being a little bit melodramatic?
07:20Am I?
07:22You, you should have been down there with us.
07:24That was melodramatic, too.
07:26I've had my share of mine disasters.
07:28But you don't have to face those men every day or those women.
07:31I do.
07:32It's not my job to manage the men.
07:34Not your job.
07:37Well, haven't you got the guts to stand up to them
07:39and order them into a mine that isn't safe enough for a rat?
07:43The old fear is safe as any mine on the Comstock.
07:46That's saying a lot, isn't it?
07:47Gil, please.
07:53What were you doing down there?
07:57I was checking the timbering.
07:58I've got a man hired to do that.
08:00I know.
08:01Philip Dietusheimer.
08:02I was hoping to talk with him.
08:03I'll run the old fear mine, Adam.
08:05You sell me timber for that mine.
08:07It's worked out very well for both of us.
08:10Suppose we keep it that way.
08:27Would you like a brandy?
08:35You must be tired of it, ain't it?
08:39Come over here.
08:41Sit down.
08:45Close to me a minute.
08:49I want to talk to you about Gil.
08:53I'm as fond of Gil as you are.
08:57If I didn't think he'd make you a good husband, I'd have fired him instead of promoting him.
09:03Gil's the superintendent now.
09:06He doesn't have to go underground anymore.
09:09Daddy.
09:11Those men are his friends.
09:13You can't expect him to forget that.
09:16I had to forget it.
09:17It's a lesson I had to learn.
09:20Stay on your own level.
09:21That's my job, and I have to do it.
09:25Don't you think I have bosses?
09:27My bosses have no faces, no hearts, no souls.
09:31But they've got a stock certificate.
09:34If I get soft or sentimental, they use it as a club to beat my brains out.
09:49I've fought a long time to get what I've got, and I'll fight to keep it.
09:54I believe Gil was thinking about preventing another accident, not about your stockholders.
09:59Honey, believe me.
10:01It gets pretty lonely up here on this level.
10:04The higher a man stands, the farther he can see.
10:08I have to do what I think's best for the most people.
10:12Try to understand that.
10:16I am trying to understand it, Dad.
10:28Oh, good morning.
10:30How'd you get into town so early?
10:32I yanked him out of bed, that's why.
10:34Coffee?
10:35No, thanks.
10:36Gil, you still think it'd be worthwhile for me to talk to Dietus Heimer?
10:41My future father-in-law doesn't seem to think so.
10:45But I still do.
10:48That's why Holloway likes you.
10:50You stand up to him.
10:53Hey, who's gonna pay for this?
10:55I don't know.
10:58I'm too sleepy to try to figure it out.
11:01Well, I can't figure out who's gonna pay for it on an empty stomach.
11:04Better bring me another steak.
11:08Hello, Mr. Hutton.
11:11I, uh, talked to you.
11:13What is it, Trigalis?
11:14Well, last night, uh, my kid brother was down in the mine.
11:19I should've known he'd be all right.
11:21Well, I said things I shouldn't do.
11:24It's all right, Trigalis.
11:25I understand.
11:26Well, I, uh, I wouldn't want to lose my job or anything like that, you know.
11:29You won't not over this.
11:32Thanks.
11:33Gil?
11:35Same old Gil.
11:36You ain't changed.
11:37And, and, and, listen.
11:38All this talk about, uh, shutting down the mine, uh, safety tests and all that, uh, don't you do it,
11:43Gil.
11:44As long as there's a hole in the ground, me and the boys will go down into it.
11:48Wouldn't want to lose no day as pay.
11:50Somebody's afraid of getting a rock on top of the head.
11:53And, uh, Mr. Cartwright, I don't blame you for poking me in the whiskers.
11:56Uh, next time, don't do it so hard.
12:03Have you seen Philip Dietishheimer?
12:05Dutchman?
12:07I don't understand that one.
12:09He's the only man I ever knew who could look a hole straight through you without even seeing it.
12:13Well, has he been around?
12:15He's been down in that hole since ten minutes after you left last night.
12:19Either he comes up for air pretty soon, or he's gonna find nobody here to work this horse when he
12:23rings that bell.
12:26Will you stay around for a little while?
12:29Take care of the swarming, won't you, Casey?
12:31Gil!
12:33Gil, I've been looking all over for you.
12:35Not now, dear.
12:36Adam and I want to go down below and look around for a minute.
12:40If it were another woman, I could face it.
12:42But to have a silver mine for a romantic rival...
12:46Hey, hey.
12:47Oh, Gil.
12:48Please be careful.
12:50If anything happened to you...
12:53Off you go!
12:54Oh!
12:56All right, love.
12:57Let her go!
13:09Good sound, Timbering, Gil.
13:11But it just isn't holding.
13:23Philip!
13:24Philip!
13:25Philip D. Dishammer!
13:36it is not usually so but here in this master such great variance of temperatures as a constant
13:43shrinking and expanding of the earth itself when i took my pick and loosened this hanging
13:48wall behind the upright zoo cave this in deliberately you might have been killed man
13:56so the important thing is five men were killed last night you secure this unusual side pressure
14:04against these outlets and without tower braces to prevent side motion oh philip this is adam
14:10cartwright adam philip didisheim mr cartwright hadn't you better take some time off get some rest
14:16have something to eat the widows of those men they have no appetite this morning gill neither have
14:22you mentioned power bracing mr cartwright you perhaps bought in construction no well i supply
14:29the timber for the mines my father and i my brothers we have a ranch and what a ranch philip
14:34the ponderosa
14:35a thousand square miles of it and wait till you see the house adam designed and built it to last
14:40a
14:40hundred years oh you must see it yeah yeah there's so many things in your beautiful country that i must
14:51see but how can i look at beauty when men are dying given time is one of the factors there
15:02is no problem in
15:04engineering that cannot be solved mr didisheimer gills told me a great deal about you and well i
15:11don't mean to be presumptuous but if you'd care to have me go over your stress calculations with you
15:17what i mean is that if you'd like to use me as a sounding board i've kept up with my
15:22mathematics it would
15:23mean a great deal to me to have someone to talk with someone who understood the engineering problem
15:29well i'd be honored mr didisheimer well then you call me philip huh so we do not waste time
16:02come in here with your pigs boys
16:18are you all right yeah where's gill it was right behind us can you see him no
16:31gill gill can you hear me
16:47well what do we do now we wait just as thousands before us have waited
16:57and we think of many things
17:02that is the final refuge of a man when he's completely alone
17:09he can think
17:11get out of the way get out of the way my brother's down there
17:15i just heard about it miss elaine
17:18don't worry no i'm gill's gonna be all right ma'am
17:24please don't do that ma'am everything's gonna be all right
17:32sorry mr cartwright i have orders to let no outsiders go down
17:35well your orders just changed let it go bow
17:41wait a minute boys wait a minute
18:06get in there boys with yourselves get the loose stuff out
18:11what are you thinking about now i was thinking and perhaps after today
18:18we will not let the mine fall on our heads again
18:23hope not
18:25well there is a simple way
18:29all we have to do is never again go into a mine
18:36so many people make that decision in life
18:43so very many
18:44so very many
18:49so
19:13no use boys we may as well give up
19:15they don't answer the signal
19:19back of that wall of rock
19:20we're too late they don't answer anymore
19:37give her that shovel
19:47okay bud okay
19:48that's good
19:58give me some light
20:12hi adam
20:13it's about time you got here
20:17gill's back there somewhere
20:19adam
20:21there ain't nothing back there but five on a total rock
20:35all right
20:35all right let her down
20:39how are you mr dina jama
20:42all right we'll see if you can make it
20:44all right
20:49hey got him horse yeah we got him
20:53easy easy
20:55he might have a broken bone
20:57here's one of them boys let's get him
21:04take him out boys
21:06here we are
21:14you all right
21:16yeah
21:17here they go
21:20it's real
21:21grand
21:27gill
21:28where's gill
21:29miss elaine
21:30i want to talk to you
21:32is that gill
21:33he's always the first one down and the last one up
21:36i suppose he's still down there looking around
21:40that's what it is hoss isn't it
21:43ma'am let me take you home
21:44oh no no i've got to wait here for gill
21:48he promised me nothing would happen to him
21:50he promised me
21:53oh let's tell me nothing's happened
21:58am i i can't lie to you i can't make it no easier
22:02i've got to see him i've got to go down
22:03i've got to see him don't you understand i've got to see him
22:07i've got to see him
22:33what i'm trying to tell you is
22:36where's gill he's still down there well go get him madam i want to talk to him
22:40what i'm trying to tell you is what he means is
22:45gill is dead daddy
22:48what
22:49that's the word he was looking for dead
22:52but it's a dirty word and no one wants to say it
22:54not here in this house not on this level the stockholders might hear
22:58dead is a word for for men who work down in the ground
23:01not for people like us
23:04we we can't talk about a man who's buried under 50 tons of rock
23:07but he's dead just the same oh johnny
23:11i'll give her the sedative you come along you too
23:23kill dead
23:27well i'll have to hire a new superintendent
23:30mr holloway
23:35if that's the first thing you thought about
23:39i feel real sorry for you
23:45i guess that should about do it thanks don
23:49mr dedishammer i told you to get some rest now you're pushing yourself much too far
23:55would you rest doctor if there were a plague afoot
23:58and that somewhere in that little black bag of yours there was a pill you knew could cure it
24:03would you rest until you had found that bill
24:05well my head is like your little black bag
24:07somewhere inside it is a pill of information
24:10long forgotten a solution to these mine disasters i have to find that pill doctor
24:17you better slow down or i won't be responsible every man is responsible to himself doctor
24:25does your head feel good enough to use let's get to work
24:32now
24:36mr dedishammer i've been thinking are you an engineer
24:41well no but then i'm not in the least interested in what you've been thinking
24:46please go
24:47now wait a minute this is my home
24:49at the moment it is my office and i want no interruptions please
24:59now
25:02so we have
25:08why ain't you at work mr holloway
25:10i refuse to send those men back down
25:13you refuse
25:13i believe the same as gill close down a few days get a chance to make some proper tests and
25:19experiments
25:22casey you're fired
25:23what
25:24what i said you're fired
25:30sir gallus
25:32can you handle casey's job
25:37mr holloway
25:39i never did want to see you shut down like i said to gill last time i talked to him
25:44i can get that shift back to work see that you do
25:50another thing i do mr holloway i'd order that dutchman to stay away from the men
25:54he wastes an awful lot of time
25:56i tell him to take care of his own work
25:59leave our boys alone
26:00you're in charge go tell him he's right upstairs
26:07that is the problem adam and it is increasing every day the veins of silver go wider the deeper they
26:13go
26:13i know and the u bracing that we use in a narrow stoke becomes worthless in a 65 foot wide
26:19gallery
26:19and it is not only the overhead pressure adam there's a constant side pressure as well
26:23i want to talk to you dutchman vertical bracing and cap pieces certainly
26:27but it would be standing so thick that the man couldn't get through i'm in charge now we are very
26:33busy and even the tower bracing you suggested listen to me when i'm talking to you you're going
26:38to take orders just like the rest of the men but how are you going to get 65 foot timbers
26:42down a
26:42mine shaft and i want you to stay away from the men hear me they're down there to work
26:47not to visit with you and another thing dutchman
26:55i believe in a little formality
27:05miss helene
27:11miss helene
27:14i know you're sorry
27:18that's not exactly what i was going to say ma'am
27:23folks mean well when they say that they're sorry
27:27it's like my mama was still alive
27:31i remember i used to bash my finger and she'd kiss it and tell me the pain was all gone
27:40it wasn't really it's just that now when i try to remember the pain
27:47all i remember is my mama kissing it away
27:52so i smile bravely and lift my head
27:58and there never was a gil fenton in my life
28:02no
28:04no
28:05you can sometimes forget the pain but
28:12you can't ever forget to love
28:14never
28:16there's going to always be a gil fenton in your life
28:22i remember
28:25i was in love once with a girl
28:28as much in love as a man can be i reckon
28:35i guess that sounds a little funny coming mead on it
28:38oh no it doesn't us
28:41she died
28:43i know that my pa and
28:47adam and little joe
28:52sorry
28:54that just wasn't enough not right then it wasn't
28:58what did you do
29:05i talked to god
29:07he told me i was just going to have to keep on living
29:23may i have the mission to enter your mind mr togelis
29:28all right go ahead
29:38me
29:38adam told me to find you and tell you that
29:42that number six had shifted
29:44and that the tower braces were 10 degrees out of plumb whatever that means
29:48it means for us that we now know one more thing that will not work
29:53it means also that we must still find that one thing that will work
29:57well he told me i ought to talk you into getting some rest too
30:01well he may have said it
30:04but he didn't mean for me to do it
30:07but it would be good
30:10so good
30:12stretch out for a while
30:14close my eyes against the sun
30:17and feel the life of the earth beneath me
30:22but i would feel only the dead horse
30:26only the dead
30:28you you feel all right mr devisheimer all right
30:32i do not know
30:34that is a relative question no
30:40i only know that my head is so full of vertical braces and cross braces and cap pieces and
30:47stalls and tempests that my brain is like a beast form of unrelated facts
30:53buzzing and churning and working within a hive
31:00a honeycomb
31:02a honeycomb
31:03i have it us i have it
31:06what
31:08go get me some one inch boards soft pine that i can cut with a jack knife
31:12go go bring them to my room i go get adam
31:19why did i not see this adam
31:21each surface bearing on the other
31:24the ratio of strength of each side of a honeycomb to the combined weight of the honey
31:30gently now gently come
31:34thank you
31:40horse
31:41now what in the blazes
31:42the solution mr holloway
31:43the solution to every caving and slippage problem in the comstock mines
31:48horse please clean place on the table
31:54thank you
31:57miss lean look here what mr dedish hammer and adam built
31:59show them how it works mr dedish hammer
32:02do you mean that's a system of mind bracing it's the most perfect system i've ever seen in my
32:06whole life are you such an expert
32:09no but mr dedish hammer is
32:10philip why don't you explain the principle
32:12you see mr i can see the principle
32:15square open-sided tower bracing box bearing equal pressure from all angles
32:22and i suppose as the stope is dug wider you propose to add another box
32:28well you can add them above too and you can even build a floor in it
32:32very interesting gentlemen and very expensive
32:36we can't use it
32:40dad aren't you even going to consider it but look at it honey it's a child's toy a plaything
32:45i'm an impractical dreamer
32:57you didn't even give them a chance
32:59a chance to what play with toys while i've got a mind to run
33:04you think i'm gonna rip out the timbering i've got in that mine to try some crazy new idea
33:09but the timbering system you have is no good we've been operating successfully with it for a long time
33:14now can't you understand i've got stockholders to think about
33:18oh yes i understand you and your faceless stockholders
33:24well i have somebody to think about too only he had a face and a body and arms to hold
33:30me with
33:30and he's buried under 50 tons of rock and you put him there
33:33wait a minute where are you going where do the rest of the mine widows go
33:38if you don't listen to me i'm through listening to you father
33:44and don't forget to send me my box of groceries
34:01we've been looking for you i've been looking for myself adam
34:06there's new models coming along great i have paid it a good thing
34:10but that is all it is a thing a handful of smoke what good is it to write a book
34:17if nobody reads it
34:19or to compose a song if nobody ever sings it
34:22or to invent a new way of timbering a mine
34:26if it is not used don't you worry it'll be used all right but when when
34:32when another hundred men have died needlessly well it's such a radical departure from anything
34:37we've done before just take time to sell it to anyone only the dead have time to wait adam
34:45and we are concerned with the living well the ophir isn't the only mine on the comstock
34:50as the uh yellow jacket golden curry and the mexican we know the owners we've sold timber to all of
34:57them
34:58all we have to do is sell one of them the idea look i am not a fishmonger i'm
35:03hawking a product on the streets well then you let me worry about that end of it you just finished
35:08this new model
35:10looks pretty elaborate well it's quite simple really series of cribs each surface bearing on the other
35:16now that takes care of your side motion which has been one of your big problems
35:19now also you see with the wide veins that you're starting to hit you can timber as you stoke in
35:24merely by adding another crib now the same holds true with working up above or down below which is an
35:30impossibility with your present timbering now here you could have an ore chute uh running diagonally
35:35right up here through the sets any idea of the cost well it really hadn't gone into it i think
35:39mr dedesheimer was more concerned with safety rather than cost i'd heard that he was pretty much of a
35:45dreamer well thanks for showing it to us adam hey ain't you even gonna let him finish telling
35:51you about it oh i've seen enough to recognize the fact that the cost would be prohibitive
35:56i'm afraid you'll have to figure out some other way of selling timber adam you mean to tell me you
36:00think that's all adam and mr dedesheimer been doing day and night is figuring out another way to sell
36:04timber stay out of that horse i won't stay out of it i don't like what this woodpecker's saying do
36:09you
36:10oh really now we don't have to pretend with each other we're in the mining business to make money
36:16and you should be able to understand that no cartwright ever made a move unless there was a dollar in
36:21it
36:21for him someplace mister you're the biggest flannel mouth liar in the comstock do you know who i am i
36:29sure do and you do too because i just got through telling you my brother isn't the world's finest diplomat
36:33but he's managed to express my own feelings pretty accurately well it might work sure but the system
36:41we're using now can be put in for one-tenth the cost why did holloway ever hire that dutchman in
36:45the
36:45first place oh now don't sell holloway short he hires this safety engineer and the crusaders leave him
36:51alone i know but now he's come up with this fantastic you don't find holloway using it do you well
36:57anybody else we can talk to that's about all of them besides i'm tired of talking you ain't gonna
37:03give up on you i said i'm tired of talking what are we gonna do well what do the card
37:09rights always
37:10do when it comes right down to it we'll do it ourselves you mean we're gonna make a big one
37:14of
37:14these things and stick it down old holloway's mind without even telling him about it why tell him
37:18he'll know it's there when he sees it tomorrow tomorrow i said tomorrow adam i heard you and mr
37:25didis hammer talking and them timbers are big and they got to be milled and cut how are you
37:28gonna do all that by tomorrow well now we own a sawmill don't we now we'll just give this job
37:33to our younger brother and tell him it's impossible to do yeah yeah that ought to do
37:42we'll get started first thing in the morning that's what old adam said and we will do you wait
37:46and see when my pa and adam and my younger brother little joe put their head to something it gets
37:50done
37:51you're very proud of your family aren't you horse yes sir i sure am it's a fine thing to have
38:00a
38:00strong family yes sir paul's always kept us mighty close together you see we just half brothers so
38:11yes sir my my paul's had a terrible lot of tragedy in his life tragedy yeah
38:19but this has made of him a finer man and it's helped to draw you all closer together as a
38:26family no
38:28yes sir a regular ass the girl helena we must try to make her see this horse right now she
38:43sees only
38:43her own loss but nothing is lost ever and nothing is ever destroyed the miners who were killed because of
38:56improper timbering in these mines they have found a new method of timbering horse i did not do it
39:03they did i am only to the instrument that carried out the plan no more than that mr dita summer
39:15folks gonna remember you for an awful long time
39:19miss lane sit down miss holliver please
39:28what's the matter matter matter
39:33i've been walking around looking into the faces of women who've lost their husbands in the mines
39:41i've been searching their eyes wondering if they know my father is a murderer
39:47ma'am you shouldn't know to talk like that not about your own paul no maybe he ain't done all
39:54he could
39:54do but at least he's tried he hired mr dita summer but he hasn't let him do anything and he
40:01won't
40:02well it don't really make no difference if he don't because we're going to do it anyhow
40:06what do you mean paul and adam and little joe are up there in the hills right now at the
40:10sawmill milling the
40:11timber we're going to put down that mine so mr dita summer here can make the test he wants to
40:15make
40:16does my father know about this well i i reckon adam sort of forgot to tell him
40:26do you really think that my father and the other mine owners would let you do this
40:32ma'am we ain't gonna charge them for it besides how they gonna stop us stop you
40:38hoss don't you understand they can hire 50 men with clubs to stop you if they want to
40:45what they want to do a thing like that for i'm afraid this does go much further than a
40:51test installation horse once it's in there and the men see it they won't be satisfied with any other
40:57system of timbering mr dita summer do you want that timber down there in that mine
41:07yeah very much horse well we're going to put it down there for you
41:12and if any of them fellas try to stop us well i i reckon that'll be my business
41:28i don't really think they'd do it i reckon you must know them better than i do
41:37i don't see my father with
41:49there's a rumor around that you plan to do some special timbering in mr holloway's mine
41:53well this is one time that a rumor is correct you cotwrights don't own this mine you've got
41:58no business here now you don't own this mine either mister why don't you let mr holloway tell
42:02me we haven't been able to find mr holloway but his interests are ours and we're here to see that
42:07they're protected check him out there
42:09we're here
42:33Hold it down.
42:56All right, break this up. I'm still in charge here.
43:01Andrew, we couldn't find you. We came here to protect your interests.
43:05I can take care of my own interests, and that's just what I've been doing.
43:09But they were planning to build some of those monkey cages down in your mine.
43:12I'm aware of what they're planning to do. I'm helping them to do it.
43:16Why, Andrew, have you lost your senses?
43:19No, I haven't lost my senses.
43:23I've just found them.
43:26How long since any of you have been down in one of your mines?
43:31Well, maybe you should, gentlemen.
43:33I just did, and I don't like what I saw.
43:37I don't know if Mr. Adidasheimer's system of timbering will work or not,
43:41but he's going to get a chance to try it.
43:55Adam and the other boys will unload that lumber right where you want it.
43:58If you need me, we'll just holler.
44:25This is fine.
44:26You go now, huh?
44:28I go.
44:33Are you satisfied, Philip?
44:35It is still an impractical man's dream, Adam.
44:38An invention is never completed until it is put to the test
44:41of serving the purpose for which you must decide.
44:45You wait for me up above.
44:46I would like to stay here and look at this for a while.
44:49Oh, no, you don't.
44:50What's the matter?
44:53I found your bag.
44:56The powder, you didn't do a good job of hiding it.
45:00It's too dangerous, Adam.
45:02I'm game if you are.
45:03I don't want any more men killed.
45:06Neither do I, but I would like to be with you.
45:09Sort of a promise I made to Gil.
45:11All right.
45:13We'll see this thing do together.
45:16This is good.
45:19Now for the final test.
45:29Why are you wasting our time, Holloway?
45:31You better take a good look at it, because you're going to see a lot of this kind of tempering
45:34from now on.
45:35Not in my mind, you won't.
45:39Well, this is it.
45:41Good luck, Philip.
45:45Come.
45:50Mr. Holloway, you should not be here.
45:52Still, my man, these gentlemen are a little hard to convince.
45:56You don't understand.
45:57We're making a test.
45:58Don't test it too hard, or your monkey cage will fall down on your head.
46:01I hope not, gentlemen.
46:03I believe not.
46:04But we will soon know.
46:06We've sent a blast to test it.
46:08I can imagine you're being down here with a blast about to go off.
46:12Your workmen do it every day, don't they?
46:14Oh, yes, but with the...
46:15With your present system of tempering.
46:17Well, you're standing up to some of it now, gentlemen.
46:19You may stay here.
46:20You'll feel safer.
46:21I prefer to stay over here.
46:22So do I.
46:26Why, you fool.
46:26We'll all be killed.
46:28Boys, the old tempering is right behind you.
46:30Go ahead.
46:31Stay under it.
46:32You better hurry.
46:55I think this held up rather well, don't you, gentlemen?
47:06Very impressive.
47:07But I still won't hold still for it.
47:09And why not?
47:10Isn't it pretty obvious?
47:12This man undoubtedly has a patent on his timbering system and plans to rob us blind collecting royalties.
47:18I'm afraid I am not so wise as you.
47:21I do not know the dollar and cent worth of a human life.
47:24I only know it is very dear.
47:27I have no patent.
47:29No desire to charge royalty.
47:32If my invention saves human lives, surely that is payment enough for any man.
47:37Wait a minute, brother.
47:39Ladies and gentlemen, we've just made a practical test of the new Didisheimer system of timbering.
47:46Any of these gentlemen here can attest to the fact that it was a complete success.
47:52I'm closing the old fear till it's completely re-timbered with the Didisheimer square sets.
47:58Every man will be paid his regular wages while the work goes on.
48:03Ladies and gentlemen, here's the man who's put an end to all the mine cave-ins on the Comstock, Mr.
48:09Philip Didisheimer.
48:13Every mine owner will have to put in square sets.
48:15Now you watch.
48:16This whole town will be sitting on one big honeycomb.
48:20It's a great thing you've done, Philip.
48:22Get it together.
48:29Listen, I'm hungry.
48:31Ain't you stormed?
48:33On the Kante horse.
48:36Right now, I feel, I feel very full.
48:41Mr. Didisheimer, I told you once that folks is going to remember you for an awful long time.
48:47And they would, too, if they could remember your name, but it's a dang blast and hard to pronounce.
48:50Don't worry about that horse.
48:52Names are never very important.
48:54Anyway, it's easier to pronounce the Dutchman.
48:57Come on, let's get some supper.
49:03Come on, let's get some supper.
49:06Come on, let's get some supper.
49:12Come on, let's get some supper.
49:17Come on, let's get some supper.
49:19Come on, let's get some supper.
49:20Come on, let's get some supper.
49:22Come on, let's get some supper.
49:26Come on, let's get some supper.
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