- Shotgun Slade: Company officials knew it was the old crime of high grading: stealing high-grade ore out of somebody else's mine.
- Detective Ward: [Playing poker in the saloon] How about another hand?
- Bonanza Jake: Oh, not today, son. I've gotta get back to my diggins. I spend too much time foolin' around in civilization as it is. It's mighty pleasant, but it's a'warpin' of the mind.
- Shotgun Slade: They're on to you, Ward.
- Detective Ward: How do you know?
- Shotgun Slade: Hartley here has hired me to kill ya. You better disappear and I'll try to convince him I dropped your body down a mine shaft.