Hornpson Zion Hall Park, East Rim May 30, 1931. Ford trip with Russell Dixon to Deer Camp via Mt. Carmel Highway. An old saw mill site lies about 4 miles east of the point. The yellow pine (about 3,000,000 ft.) was logged off in 1909-10. Young pines are coming back, so that within the proper time the region will be restored. Russell said that forage condit within the park were much better than they had been in the past. The region had been grazed for 40 years before he knew it, & he was first here in 1902. He says that in the early day settlers farmed the river bottom below Zion & even in it. But owing to grazing above, floods washed away the farm land & the settlers deserted their land. They still ranged their cattle & horses in the canyon. In 1915 a hard winter left no feed. Every bit of forage was gone from the canyon anyway; so the settlers came up in the canyon & cut down huge amounts of cotton wood for their stock to bark.