Richard Townsend goes west with his friend Bill Matthews, after graduating from mining school to develop his father's abandoned gold mine. Bill discovers from The Lily, owner of the mining town saloon, that the mine is being plundered through secret tunnels by Bill Presbey, father of Joan, Richard's sweetheart. After fights, a strike, the dynamiting of a dam, a fire, and a mine cave-in, Presbey yields to Joan's pleas and Bill's fists and returns the gold. The Lily reforms, and everything points to happiness for her and Bill, as well as for Richard and Joan.