Dorothy Gray, daughter of a mine owner, is in love with the mine superintendent, Robert Blake. John Daly has been fired because he is a slacker and is jealous of Blake. He learns that the payroll has not arrived and goes to stir up the mine employees. They go to wreck the mine entrance but the sheriff holds them off at the point of a gun. Dorothy's father can not cross the river in his buckboard with the payroll because the bridge has washed out. But he tosses the money across the river to Dorothy who rides to the mine and pays the disgruntled workers. The sheriff arrests Daly for inciting a riot.