[2][3] As described in a film magazine,[4] 'Boxcar' Simmons (D. Butler) is tramping the railroad ties to nowhere when from a car window blows a set of rules telling how to be a success for life.

Dude Miller (F. Butler) and Jim Riggs (Todd) set out to sell him a rock-studded farm.

Simmons discovers that Doris Mead (Ferguson) and her brother Jim (Ford) were previously swindled by the two slickers.

He "salts" the ranch and the slickers pay out a large sum to buy his option, thinking it to be a rich silver ore deposit.

The slickers, finding that they have been tricked, crack the hotel safe and steal Simmons' wallet and its rules for success.