Row 4 of Prospector Quilt - Gallery - Tohono O'odham Quilts of Goldie Richmond

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The quilt blocks are described in rows from left to right. Phrases within the quotes " " are the words that Goldie embroidered. ROW 4
BLOCK 1	"N. A. Porter" "Placer Gold Miner" Porter was an undertaker in Casa Grande. He had a mining shack at Quijotoa at Horseshsoe Basin.
BLOCK 2	" 'Ralph' A modern Diogenes My Home, Bed, My all." "Boston, Mass. to San Diego, Calif. Pushing this Cart. made it in two years. Prospecting on way"
BLOCK 3	"'Ike' A Prospector." "And every thing he owned"
BLOCK 4	"Jack Dempsey" "An Honest Prespector Grub staked himself"
BLOCK 5	"Lewis Mc Carty 'Prospector'" Lewis Mc Carty had a ranch at Douglas, AZ. He made a find on the west side of the Quijotoas. He sometimes camped with Bill Coplen. They slept outside on cots and played pinochle on a blanket at night by moonlight. Lewis put out feed in cans for the coyotes. They would come up to camp and eat, and in the dark the coyoted would walk between the cots. They got very tame. You could just put out your hand and pet them on their backs as they walked by. Mc Carty and Coplen were also partners with a man named Pat. He had a "doodlebug." It was a device that was supposed to take you to the gold (like the sticks that water witches use). It was a container hung on a copper wire. Inside the container was a bit of gold or quicksilver-but you couldn't actually see what it was because it was hidden under wrappings. Pat believed in that doodlebug, but it never did find gold for him.