In the Happy Days CCC newspaper of September 11, 1937 carried a brief article of the Secret Valley CCC’s discovery of nearby petroglyphs. The following was a brief description: “What looks like childish scrawls are the latest known discoveries in petroglyphs, ancient rock drawings, found by the men of Co. 740, Litchfield, Calif., and now attracting the attention of scientists in this and other countries.”
This was not the first reported discovery of petroglyphs by the Secret Valley CCC’s. The Lassen Mail of March 13, 1936 reported:
”CCC workers in the Secret Valley camp are wondering this week if they have discovered ancient Indian inscriptions or merely run across the work of some amateur cartoonist who was whiling away his time with little stone hatchet.
”An aged Indian revealed several inscriptions to camp workers, carved in rocks in the vicinity of the CCC camp claiming that said marks are relics of the dim and distant past. Photographs were taken of the inscriptions and are now in the possession of the foreman of the camp.“
On a final note, neither article gave the location, however, it should be noted that there two petroglyph sites near the Secret Valley CCC that being Petes Creek and Stoney Creek.