♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ that's a pretty bad gun shot wound. what's your name old timer? joe jones. two men bushwacked me search me for my maps for bredford mine. that's old and deserted mine in paradise golch. no

rich or diggiing tool. handle my wife coming on stage. tell her maps hid lower in the shaft. lower her into what shaft? ♪ he's gone, roy. yeah poor fella, i wonder what shaft he meant. one of the tunnels in the old bedford mine i imagine, but that old mine is honeycombed with tunnels. they tell me it was worked out fifteen years ago yeah. but if this old timer has found a new vane. well we better get this news back to the sheriff. meet that stage. sure gonna be hard to tell that poor women she's a widow. i sure hope old eddie dunn's got what we want. listen we'll soon find out. here comes the stage.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ put them up and keep them up. keep them covered. you sue denton? yes that's my name. give me your purse. ♪ ♪ give me the rest of your baggage. hurry up! ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ we've been held up! and there goes the outlaws. what'd they take? nothing they just looked through my things. are you mrs. denton? yes. dale stay with here pat and i will go after them. right. come on! ♪ hide the horses. ♪

♪ hey roy, isn't that the old bedford mine up there? yeah that will be a good place to hide. let's take a look. ♪ ♪ been abandoned for fifty years. maybe so but the mine belongs to the bedford family and i'm bill bedford. well your stage coach was held up down here on the road. you two fellas didn't happen to be around there at the time, did you? no matt and i have been working the mine. haven't been anywhere but right here. seems kinda funny working a mine that's been abandoned for fifteen years. that's my business. prove it. i don't have to. the sheriff's office has got a copy of my deed to the property. if you don't believe me ask him. i think we will. ♪ you know i got a hunch we are gonna have trouble with him.

they're the noisy type. don't worry about it matt. i stopped them cold when i filed that fake claim. well here's the deed. it's right as rain looks like the bedford mine was originally a spanish land grant. the property belonged to elanzo bedford and this bill bedford his grandson. then joe denton's claim is no good. i'm afraid not roy. well that's a shame. it means mrs. denton won't get a thing, even if we find a map. unless we can prove this bill bedford's a phony. roy i can smell a faker a mile off. ain't been took by one yet. and this bill bedford is a phony as a sugar barrel full of little fish hooks. that might be kind of hard to prove pat. i'm sorry mrs. denton but one thing we will do is find your husband's murderer. pat we have got some searching to do ourselves. come on. i'll look after mrs. denton

roy. alright dale. @hmisoner of d.c message- please check ownership status of one bill bedford on bedford mine paradise valley claims to be heir to spanish land grant wire answer roy rogers mineral city i'll take care of it right away. that will be a dollar and a quarter. okay here.

♪ what were those two rattlers doing in here, sheriff? roy, bill bedford just got out a restraining against you. against me? why me? oh you know why. you're gunning for those men. oh i can't say is how i blame you but right now they got the law on their side. sheriff i'm sure they're phonies. and if they find that map and locate the gold. they'll leave mrs. denton the widow they made her without a penny. how do you know they made mrs. denton a widow, and how do you know they're phonies? i don't know for sure yet, but i'm gonna find out. now wait a minute roy, don't do anything hasty. remember this time the law ain't on your side,

and if i find you on the bedford property, i'll have to put you under arrest. maginificent cooking! maginificent, and now my boy because you were kind enough to invite me to partake of this scrumcious feast, i'm gonna do you a favor. my friend, here is a piece of paper that will make you a very rich man, a millionaire. what is it? it's a map, a map that will unfold the treasures of gal conda of eldardo. you follow the instructions and the directions on this map and you will find gold golare. you don't say. that's right. and because you're my friend. well if it ain't pat brady by golly i ain't seen you in a turtle's age. hi ya pete. well as i was saying. oh colonel not now later. well what do you got to say for yourself, patrick? oh not much. just the same. well i'll i see ya later. how about having a nice piece of pie with me pat. pie?

hey what happened to your friend? he left without paying for the food. he did? yeah. oh well nevermind i'll pay for it. just put it on my tab. okay pat but i don't like to see you get stuck that way. that colonel looked like a faker to me. dale i told you once and i'm telling you again. i can smell a faker a mile off and there ain't nobody putting over anything on me. hi roy. hi dale. what's the matter with you? yeah you looked like you tied into a bear that still had it in for daniel boone. oh them two buzzards over at the bedford mine got a restraining order against me. how's mrs. denton? well she's resting now. i sure hope things get straigtened out for her. they will if i've got anything to do with it. restraing order or no restraing order. come on, pat. shew say maybe next time pete. ♪

hey pat you better take nelliebelle. oh i can't she just b@@@ @ it doesn't seem to be anyone around. no, it's quieter than an hibernating catipilar. ♪ ♪ ♪ oh i guess they're off somewhere. yeah probably getting another restraing order. they might be back any minute though, so let's split up and look for that lower end of the shaft denton told us about.

it's bound to be around here someplace. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey pat! look what bullet found. well dag gum. this thing looks old enough to belong to one of them dinosaurs. hey that sounds like it's coming from the mine. now listen bullet, we ain't got no time to play with you. we'll do some more digging maybe he'll find what were looking for. somebody's coming. let's hide back here in the cave and watch this entrance that dog warned them. you better go around the back way.

♪ stay back, bullet. ♪ oh

wow roy! you hit him so hard you jarred his kin folks. where's the other one? he high taled it out of here. say this rifle could of killed joe denton. yeah a high powered rifle like that could of made the wound but do you suppose we could convince the sheriff? we can convince him better if we could find that map. oh oh i'm so sorry was this what you were looking for? bullet, guard him. might as well be comfortable while we're looking, huh? you know if there's a hidden shaft in this here mine,

it must be the size of a gopher hole. we haven't covered half this place yet. i'm so dagum tired and hungry, i could eat a porcupine and pick my teeth with the quills. oh. uh oh, roy, we got company. it's the sheriff. looks like our investigation is going to be slowed up. alright roy and pat. hi sheriff well disreguarding the restraing order and trespassing on private property i'll have to put you both under arrest. what are you doing with matt out there? bullet's guarding him. you going to arrest him too? get to your horses. let's get back to town. here we go roy. who's gal bound? come into town when they go before the judge.

no jail big enough to hold patrick alowishus brady for long. well i warned them. dale did you get answer to my telegram? well no not yet roy. well surely this can't be serious enough for you to keep these boys

in jail. well i'll tell you what i'll do dale. you sign the bail bond and i'll parole them to your custody. that's a deal. and remember they're your responsibility. and you better see that they don't violate that restraing order again. okay. now listen. you boys heard what the man said. i'll tell you what i'll do, son. mine. a hundred dollars. boy that's a little steep. well make it fifty dollars, well i don't know whether i've got that much or not. well i reckon i do owe you a little favor. let's say twenty five dollars. i think that's just about what i got. well thank you son, and now my boy some day when your lolly gone at the beach at the riviera, smoking five dollar cigars with a beautiful girl on each arm, just sometime think of colonel jasper rutherford. i bid you good day sir. you ready to go pat? oh yeah yes as soon as i get out of these work clothes.

hey wait a minute. you heard what the sheriff said. don't you boys let him ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ now get him!

bullet, go to dale! you've been asking for it, now you're gonna get it. tomorrow i'm going in town to get the sheriff. why bother? they were trespassing, weren't they? breaking the law, weren't they? we can shoot them and tell the sheriff it was self defense. that would look bad with four of us here. throw him in the mine office and lock him up. ♪ we gotta figure hurry bullet! go find roy. hey. that sounded like bullet.

♪ roy, you in there? yeah me and pat. get us out of here dale. how? well look around and see if you can find an iron bar of some k ain't that bacon done yet? keep your shirt on it's about ready. ♪ ♪ thanks dale, now stand by, we'll need your gun. ♪ what was that? stay where you ♪re! nice going, dale. p dale i'll get himd ware. right.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ha here comes the sheriff,ate as usual. ♪ alright matt, you can't get away that easy, let's go. that's twice he's violated the restraing order and i'm plenty mad. i told you he was at it again, sheriff. get over there with the rest of your gang. ♪ roy, i went by the telegraphed office for ya. here's your message. thanks dale. no spanish land grant ever granted to bedford

family. mine is in public domain. what do you think of that, sheriff? that means that the claim joe denton staked out is good, and i've got the map to prove it. you'll never take me. good shot pat. sheriff, if you'll check the bullet hole in bill bedford's arm you'll find that it looks suspeciously like the one that was in denton. they both came from the same rifle. get your deputies to help us, and let's put these men where they belong. there you are roy. dale, i got me a map too. millions and millions of dollars. that's a real funny looking map and it's stuck together. that river looks like some kind of a tree. it's printed in spanish. dale you read spanish. how about translating this for pat. okay a life giving herb discovered by juan hernandez in 1812. a sure cure for rumintism acne saddle sores haha and anything

else that ails you. patrick you have just purchased yourself a label from a pat medicine bottle. well i'll be fried in snake oil if i ain't been horn swaggled by a faker! i paid for all of his meals plus twenty five dish washing dollars. where is that southern pride, mint julip with blisters. if i get him, i'll stomp wow we had some close moments there, didn't we? watch for us in the next roy rogers show. ♪to you until we meet ♪again happy trails ♪to you keep smiling ♪until then happy ♪trails to you till we meet ♪again

♪ ♪lassie. starring ♪june lockhart, hugh riley ♪jon provost as timmy ♪and of course lassie ♪ ♪ well, you didn't waste much time. there wasn't very much water. tomorrow morning we'll start looking for the right place to dig the new well. okay, lassie and i will help you look. i'm afraid it's not gonna be that easy. we'll have to get an expert to tell us where to dig and how deep to go. we'll hire mr. landers, he's a geologist. a what? a geologist. that's

a man who studied the earth and rock formations. did mr. landers say how much he would charge us? fifty dollars. boy, fifty dollars just to find water? why don't we start saving water? i could stop taking showers... uh, thank you very much, that's very kind of you timmy. but, i'm afraid that taking fewer baths is not a very good way to economize. even lassie uses water. we need it for the house, for the stock, we're doing more irrigating all the time. every living thing needs water. you're right. everything that lives needs water. would you say the prayer tonight, timmy? bless this food for our use, and us to thy service. thank you for the water god. amen. ♪ ♪

hi, mr. wilson. good evening, cully. hello, cully, how are you? hello, timmy, ruth, good seeing you paul. well, i hear you're planning on a new well? that's right cully. we're getting about half the water we need from that old one. remember when it was dug, said at the time it wasn't dug down deep enough. you're sure right, mr. wilson. of course, that was almost twenty years ago, wasn't so much calling water. it's the irrigating that's using it all up now, cully. you heard me talk of that down at the grains, paul. not too sure so much water is good for growing things. god makes them grow, god provides the water they need. would you like a cup of coffee, cully? no, no thank you, ruth. i just get up from the supper table. oh, alright, excuse me. what's that, mr. wilson? looks like an old fork stick.

fork stick? ha. it's called a divining rod, timmy. finds water, made out of weeping willows. dad says a geologist finds water. ha, that's a waste of money, this is the best way to find the water i know. well i guess it's alright cully if you believe in it. believe in it? ha, paul i have had three farms and all of the water i have had i have found with a divining rod. my father he used one all his life. yep, so did my grandfather. you mean you can find water with an old stick? ha, easiest thing in the world. you just hold it like this. see. and uh...you don't even have to look. it tells you when it happens. and when you're right over water, the stick dips down.

like this. is that what a geologist uses? no, timmy, nothing like that. no, but they would be better off if they did. all they do is just take your money and give you a lot of mumbo jumbo. what do they know for a fact about the ground thirty, forty feet under them? they know cully, they've studied it. ah, why do it paul? i guarantee this divining rod will find water for you. and all that geologist will do is drill it. i appreciate your coming over cully, but we each have our different ways. yeah, yeah, that's the truth. yeah, we have. oh the world changes. but not necessarily for the better. you'd be the first to tell a man to do what he thinks is right, cully. cully, are you sure you won't have a piece of pie and some coffee?

no. i mean no thanks ruth. mrs. wilson will be waiting for me. tonight's cribbage night. uh, no offense, cully? no. no offense paul. i am just an old fashioned kind of a farmer. i like to stand in the fields and smell the earth. not ride a tractor and smell gas. oh, i'm fighting a real good fight. it's lonesome, but that don't say i'm wrong. goodnight. goodnight, cully. goodnight, cully. mr. wilson? mr. wilson?

mr. wilson! yeah, yeah what is it? about that stick? the divining rod? uld it work for me? oh, sure it would. nothing to it. i don't suppose you would let me borrow it? you know... here timmy. you're welcome to it. now just what's in your mind? well, i thought if i can find water with this. we might drill there and see if we can save fifty dollars. fifty dollars? oh my goodness, that landers fellow there sure has a good thing going for him. hey, would you please show me how to do it again? sure, sure. well you just walk around like this, until you feel it moving your hands and then dip down, points to the water under the ground and you feast your eyes. gee, thanks, mr. wilson. i'll let you know as soon as i find water. you

do that. you do that, timmy. ♪

♪ be quiet, lassie, i don't want dad to know what we're doing. that'll spoil the whole surprise. i said cut it out. ♪

♪ ♪ it moved. lassie the divining rod it moved. boy, mr. wilson was right. just as i started to give up, just when i didn't believe any part of it. come on to breakfast, timmy. coming dad. ♪ ♪ ♪ dad, we don't need mr. landers. what do you mean, son? i already

found water. the divining rod it really works, it really dipped down. i'll show you the place to dig the well. here timmy, eat your breakfast. you gotta tell mr. landers nevermind. you'll save a whole fifty dollars. now, son. i explained how i felt last night. i believe in mr. landers and i believe in the science of geology. not in a fork stick. but dad, it really works. mr. landers way will work too, dear. come on now eat your cereal. okay. whatever you say. son, just like planting seeds, timmy. you can just throw them on the ground and they might come up, but if you get the ground ready and you put them in very carefully at the right depth. and then cover them over, you're a lot more certain to get a good crop. ♪ find water yet, mr. landers?

not yet, son. right now i'm making a sort of preliminary survey. what's that? seeing the land itself, you know looking at the map is only the beginning. how does it look to you around here mr. landers? well not too good. there's a good deal of serpents out cropping the rock. is that bad? for water yes. gee, lassie he passed right by here. he's not gonna pick this spot. but if he does, we'll prove that we found it first. i'll bury the divining rod right here. so if they dig the well here, we'll show them that mr. wilson was right. ♪ most of the bed rock slopes and angles converge at this particular

point. i feel this is the most logical spot in your entire acreage for a well, mr. martin. how far down is the water? well about a hundred feet. it might just come up by gravity. any way ed jarrett shouldn't have any trouble drilling here. most of the sub-straight is soft. fine, let's go back to the house and i'll get your check. thank you. we came passed here twice, lassie, and that divining rod didn't even wiggle. we tried girl. sometimes it's kind of hard to make grown ups see things. good morning, mr. jarrett. hi, timmy.

you gonna help me? sure what do you want me to do? well you can start by getting me some water. you see it takes water to get water. okay. if timmy gives you any trouble now... no, i don't think i ever dug a well without one more little boys helping me. well what do you think? well if landers says there's water here, i'll do my best to find it. from the looks of the ground we should go pretty fast. well, the beds and the dishes are waiting. i'll be in the barn if you need me, ed. fine, thanks! here's your water. thanks, timmy. that drilling bucket is what digs the hole. boy that's some bucket. sure is. hi. hi.

this that spot that geologist fellow picked? yes, sir. i found water with the divining rod. i wouldn't give you two cents for this spot. don't smell right. don't feel right. i found a different spot. it's right over... i figure it's dry sand, and gravel all the way. this is a good spot, but water don't stand here after rain. that means it rains real good. takes dry sand and gravel for that.

ah, going down real fine. does anyone want another sandwich? there is plenty left. no thank you, ruth. well we're almost down to about a hundred feet. what's the matter lassie? no girl. we're supposed to stay back here out of the way. we've hit bed rock. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

oh. a seem must have open from the drilling. how did the gasoline catch on fire? well probably sparks. when he brought the bucket up it must have lift the rock and lit the gasoline that had run down the hole. it's a good thing we were close by. if you hadn't hollered at me paul, i might have lost one rig. what are you going to do now? well, there is no point in trying to go any deeper here. i'll never get through that rock. not without special equipment and a lot more time. i said there wasn't any water here. well, according to landers diagram, we should have hit it by now. well you're just gone have to start drilling some place else, ed. boy, mr. landers sure was wrong, wasn't he? well it's not his fault timmy. you know you can't see under there, you know how things are suppose to be. but that doesn't say that they'll always be that way. well we'll just have to pick another spot. whatever you say, paul. i've got a spot. please timmy. we're gonna leave this in mr. jarrett's hands now. the boy used the divining rod, i'd say it'd

be real smart to dig where he says. thanks, cully, but we're gonna leave it up to ed. well now all the gasoline has drained out. ed i can fix that crack while you're looking around. fine it'll speed things up paul. come on let's go, timmy, huh? ♪ that low spot on the far side of the field. that just might be pretty good. is there some reason? well mr. landers figured a rock slope in his drawings, it would sort of catch the water and let it flow along it. we didn't find water where he said. well that was just an accident. no reason why he should be wrong about the figuring he did. be sure you're right, mr. jarrett. mom and dad might run out of money if we're wrong this time. hey, you do a lot of worrying for a little fellow. why shouldn't i?

it's my family, whatever happens to mom and dad happens to me too. timmy that's a good way to think. you know more kids should take hold of that idea. say, that spot where lassie is sitting looks interesting. ♪ ♪ ♪ gee, lassie, what if he picks this place and finds water here? boy, won't mr. wilson, be happy? mom and dad will have to believe mr. wilson's divining rod. timmy! i think this is the most likely spot on the farm for a well. of course, it's pretty far from the

barn. paul will have to lay a good bit of pipe. you mean, you don't say a thing lassie, not until they dig the well and find the water. then we'll dig up the divining rod and show them. ♪ ♪ well, it's a fine job paul, thanks. i'll have it welded when i finish here. did you decide on a spot yet, ed? yes, back at the barn. that rocky corner of the field. it seems to have surface signs of water. seepage from underground. yeah, crops always did pretty well in that corner of the field. timmy? go tell your mother about the spot where mr. jarrett's going to drill, she'll be interested. okay, dad.

@w go tell your mother about the spot where mr. jarrett's going to drill, she'll be interested.

it's wet down there, no doubt of it. i'll be right back. i'm gonna go tell mr. wilson. come on, lassie. timmy, i hope you learned a lesson from this. i sure did, mr. wilson. never laugh at the old fashioned ways of doing things when you grow up. there's more real pleasure in the old ways. nice to know you're doing things the way men did them long ago. look at that water yet? not yet, son. any minute now, timmy, any minute. look at that, ruth, we've got it. tons of pressure, you have an artesian well.

see mr. wilson you see, look the water comes up all by itself. timmy, i never doubted it for a minute. can we tell them now? can we? oh, we'll tell them, boy. oh, we'll really tell them. i don't know it you're dad is going to appreciate this. this looks like the cat that swallowed the canary. mr. wilson and i have a surprise for all of you. of course i'm not the type to say i told ya so. come with me everybody. ♪ ♪ ♪ this is where i found water. mr. wilson's divining rod. yeah, the boy buried it there. showing the proof. see, mr. wilson was right all the time. well now let's not forget it was ed that picked the spot.

even though we didn't have the sense to use cully's divining rod. well a man gets wisdom with age. you young fellows, well you learn slow. that may be cully, but i think you all deserve credit. timmy, ed as well as cully. and a very special thanks to you, lassie. thanks for letting me use it. when i grow up and need it again, i'll come and get it. well i do something better for you boy. here you can have that one. gee, thanks! well, i'll be heading for home. i left mrs. wilson weeding the kitchen guard all by herself. wait for me, mr. wilson. ♪ ♪ ♪

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