Unlike everybody here I think it was brilliant.
Tony was forever giving him crap and dissing him for wanting to dig somewhere else on HIS lease
Well Parker was paying 20% to dig anywhere on the lease, Not just where Tony said,which wasn't paying as much as parker wanted< he wanted to dig in Fantasy Land, named by his foreman, so bad enough to take crap from your workers, but also the lease owner?? He goal was 3,000 ounces, Pay Tony his 600. Tony ain't got nothing to say. Put your efforts and $$$ into the area you want, If you don't make 3.000 nobody to blame but you
As I recall he put out over 3,ooo, earned the respect of Tony and his Men, and paid the extra %%% on the overage
Gutsy move that could have backfired but didn't
You don't have to stand tall, but you do have to stand up!
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lmtopeka-1
8 years ago
It's all contrived. Parker leased the land from Tony he can really do what he wants. Tony can give suggestions but he can't tell Parker what to do. If Tony doesn't like what Parker is doing he maybe he could kick him off the land and but then he would get nothing? It's a bunch of nonsense like those guys in Oregon putting locks on Todd's wash plant. You can't give someone a lease tell them to come on up and spend thousands of dollars getting equipment and supplies there and then lock them out and demand that you work for them. No way that would fly with any real miners who had signed contracts and were ready to work. This show doesn't deal in real world reality of the business.
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