>From _California Gold Camps_ by Gudde Carsons or Carson [Mariposa] About four miles west of Mariposa, on Highway 140. Alex GODEY discovered the gold deposits on Fremont's grant in the summer of 1849, and he probably named Carson Creek for his friend, Kit CARSON. The Creek is mentioned by Thomas ALLSOP in December 1851. In his diary entry of February 19, 1853, Angus McISAAC describes the place Carsons as follows: "It is about as large as Mariposa and consists of all cotton houses, except two, which are of wood and better furnished than any of the houses in Mariposa. They are used as public houses as well as gambling and another ill-famed business which I do not choose to mention." The Mariposa Chronicle reported in the spring of 1854 that miners averaged fifteen to twenty dollars per day to the hand. The Alta, June 24, 1854, reprints an item from the Mariposa Chronicle which states that many miners had left Carsontown because of the lack of water. It is probably the same place as Carsons. The town was we! ll known as the site of Louis de BLAINVILLE's tannery, which is indicated on the Las Mariposas map, 1861. Another map of the area, dated March 1859, is in the Mariposa County Records, Deeds (book G, pg 81).