After Walter and a miner they have befriended named Donel shows John the amount of money to be made from the gold without destroying the much needed creek John relents. He even makes plans of how to use part of the money from it to improve the ranch and increase it's size. John finds a treasure himself when he meets beautiful young Millie Randall while in town on business. It's soon discovered he's already met her father. Just as things are about to work themselves out with that there is a terrible loss at the ranch. Little does John know a second loss is in his future.