Loggers used the splash dam system in the Marble Creek basin between 1915 and 1931. In 1923, Rutledge Lumber Company spent $16,352.25 building the splash dam at Hobo Creek. Splash dams stored enough water to flush logs down small streams to rivers, where they were then floated downstream to mills. Early logger Charles Gregory recalled that when the gates were opened, the water could rise ten to twenty feet high, the current was very strong, and a man could not ride logs down. A steam donkey pulled logs down to the splash dam. The remains of the splash dam, the logging camp, and a steam donkey can be seen at the Hobo Historical Trail in Marble Creek, where a 1 ½ mile loop hiking trail with signs and photos leads to the site.