Pals (1910)

Denton a young easterner arrives in the goldfields looks about for a find and a partner Entering a saloon he partakes of some refreshment watches the patrons of the place and studies their characters while thus engaged a young miner named Harper somewhat prejudiced against easterners engages in a quarrel with a Mexican who is about to plunge a knife into the miner when Denton seizes his wrist and wrenches the weapon from his grasp Harper thanks Denton and after learning the eastern mans desire to find a prospecting partner Denton loins forces with him and they start in to work a lead and strike paying dirt