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Listen...
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what doyou know
about the Pilager family?.
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Jeremiah Pilager,
who comes here in 1870...
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sells dry goods at cutthroat prices
to the pickers and panners.
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He accepts a land deed as payment
from one poor sourdough...
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which becomes
the Pilager Seam.
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So the lone wolf prospector legend?.
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It's a crock. Boomtown money,
big mansions, extravagant lifestyles.
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But when the silver bubble
bursts in 1893...
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Pilager's already diversified,
and he comes out richer than ever.
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These days, the family fortune
has switched from mines to...
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cow pies.
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More than you can possibly imagine.
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If someone doesn't dispose of
this stufffrom time to time...
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the stockwould be
up to its sirloin in shit.
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- The family business.
- The flagship, so to speak.
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The real money comes from
their association with this gentleman.
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You know the nameWes Benteen?.
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As in Benteen Ranch?.
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Benteen Realty,
Benteen Medical Associates...
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Gold Mine Communications,
BENagra...
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which produces the poo-poo
the Pilagers clean up...
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Bentel Stadium.
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So he's the Bentel Corporation.
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- Founder and CEO.
- Big money guy.
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- Mega.
- And a real piece ofwork.
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During the Iran-Contra thing, he sent
Oliver North's boys a set of cargo planes.
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He used blacks and Chicanos
to bust the unions in slaughterhouses...
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and then he fired half ofthem
and brought in migrants without papers.
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He's never once been hit on
by the Immigration Service.
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And he and the senator?.
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When Richard, the son,
who is fondly referred to...
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by his frat mates as "Dim Dickie"...
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sinks his inheritance into Silver City,
a ghost town with an abandoned mine...
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which turns out to be abandoned
for a good reason...
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guess who bails him out by paying six
million dollars over its original value.
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Wes Benteen.
A personal favor.
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One contributor putting up
over halfthe money for a senate run.