The Claim at the Deaf Creek

In a desolate inn in the middle of deep canyon Mike and Rogers ask the innkeeper about the possibility to reserve the piece of land allotted to washing gold - the claim. Old Cunning knows about the last claim at the Deaf Creek but gold is not to be found there. Except for these two men there is knocking about only an old gold-digger Andersson called according to his origin the Swede. He would like to buy a claim but those gold-bearing have already been sold out. Mike and Rogers registrate the claim though they do not intend to work at all. They have secretly brought with them a few gold nuggets to make a swindle. They have their dreams. Mike desires to have a peach farm and servants who would bring him fruits and give bib at his sprinkled chin. Roger longs for five-floor hotel painted in light blue. It goes without saying that he would buy the peaches from Mike. However they lack twenty-five thousand dollars and incentive to work. They prefer making the Swede believe that they have really found gold at the Deaf Creek and sell him their untouched claim for one thousand and eight hundred dollars. In three months they go to the place by chance. All claims have been exploited up except for that one at the Deaf Creek. The Swede has really found gold there and now is filling cans one by one - at the question of the stupified men he estimates value of what he has found to half of a million.