The mule drawn Log Hauler or "slip tongue" (shown on the right), depicts the rich history of logging in the Running Springs area, which in 1890 was first named "Hunsaker Flats."

Immigration to the valley below and the orange groves of Redlands, set the stage for the logging industry for box crates and building lumber in the San Bernardino Mountains.

The Highland Lumber Company and later, the Brookings Lumber Company, conducted substantial logging operations from Fredalba to Green Valley Lake. They even operated a narrow gauge railway for transporting logs to the mill located in what is now Fredalba and Smiley Park, directly south of Running Springs. Lumber was precariously hauled down the "City Creek Toll Road," later named Highway 330.