John Doming and his two daughters, Eunice and little Tess, arrive in the stagecoach with Tom, a miner, Ray, an easterner, the sheriff and others. The next day the father and daughters start out prospecting. Eunice and Tom promising to see each other again, Tom and Ray form a partnership and start out also. Both parties decide upon a location and start to work. Sometime later, Ray becomes discouraged and decides to leave. They settle up their account, Tom buying Ray's interest. Ray starts back to the stagecoach station, where he meets the deputy and sheriff who advise him that Tom has in the meanwhile discovered gold. Ray hastens back. Tom starts to register his claim, but before he can get away, Eunice, who has been taken with fever, arrives with her little sister. The two girls having started out to find their father, who had gone further on, prospecting. Tom insists upon their stopping at his camp until he can get the doctor, but as he comes out to mount his horse, he sees Ray staking out his claim, and realizes that unless he gets to the Register's office, Ray will register the claim in his own name, then he remembers Eunice, so after explaining to little Tess that he will get the doctor at any cost, he rides away. Tess at once tells her sister. Eunice manages to help the child upon their horse, and she rides to the Register's office, arriving just ahead of Ray. The sheriff meets her, registers the claim in Tom's name and both then return to Tom's camp, to find Mr. Doming, Tom and the doctor already there, and Eunice out of danger.
