News of a gold strike in Cochise County has the residents very excited, but Captain Joe Silva of the Apache Tribal Police is skeptical, the more so when a member of his tribe who tipped him is found murdered. Morgan learns from an old sourdough that the gold being displayed is the wrong color for an Arizona strike; he also checked the old mine recently to determine if there was any hope of finding profitable ore and struck it off as a waste of time and money. When the Sheriff learns of gold bars being stolen in Mexico, he suspects that the miners may be using the mine as a front for a gold smuggling operation