In February, 1928, Susanville’s Lassen Mail newspaper reported that the population of Secret Valley consisted of fifteen people. An angry resident of the valley wrote the newspaper for a retraction. This person asserted there were thirty people living there, and this was not including the section crew residing at Karlo working for the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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P.S.. When the Secret Valley CCC camp was established in 1935, the population soared with an additional 176 residents.