Curly receives a letter from the Inventors' Association, who state that his Gold Collar Button Retriever is "incomprehensible and utterly impractical."

Naturally, Curly misinterprets this as a success, and the trio leave their mother's home to make their fortune.

After actually finding a lost mine, the Stooges run afoul of two down-on-their-luck prospectors after Curly fires an arrow from his Gold Collar Button Retriever.

Moe and Larry flee to a hotel in a ghost town where Curly hid the gold in a safe.

Believing it to be a dud, the boys burst out laughing and Curly chucks the dynamite, causing it to actually explode.