The Story of the Savage Modoc Mine - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

After-dinner speeches are being made, and the toastmaster calls upon a man named Allen, who, while apparently young in years, has snow-white hair, and he tells how his hair turned white in one night. As he speaks the scenes he describes ...See moreAfter-dinner speeches are being made, and the toastmaster calls upon a man named Allen, who, while apparently young in years, has snow-white hair, and he tells how his hair turned white in one night. As he speaks the scenes he describes are shown in the film. John Allen, his father, joined the gold rush with a partner. After many hardships they finally located a good claim and worked it, securing gold beyond their wildest dreams. The partner went hunting one day and was killed by Indians, and Allen received the news from a trapper who found the body. Saddened, he resolved to come home, and sent a letter to his wife and son that he would join them in a few months. The mine caved in and buried him alive. Allen heard no further word from his father, and as time elapsed his mother died. Alone in the world he went west to search for his father, and one night as he sat alone at his camp fire a vision of the dead man appeared. The next day his hair had turned white. The spirit of his father guided him to the mine, where he secured assistance and dug out the dead man. This scene is very cleverly shown taken from the interior, and showing the picks and shovels breaking through, permitting ever widening rays of light to lighten up the inside of the mine. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less