Agarn thinks he is dying and sends a confession to Washington.
Bat finds himself in the middle of a fight between the railroad and the cattlemen who stripped out 50 miles of railroad fence intended to keep the herds off the tracks.
A dying prospector confides to Roy that the map to his gold mine is hidden in a shaft of the old abandoned Bedford Mine. When his widow comes to Mineral City, Roy and Dale set out to help her find the map.