They continued to arrive in groups from 500 to 1100 per day, until there were more than 10,000, and the community ranked third in size in the state. There seemed to be a uniform initial response to the camp from the detainees: “desolate.” The dry, cold, dusty, fiercely wind-swept sage flats left an indelible mark on the detainees. Most of the detainees had never seen terrain like this before, having come from the lush West Coast. Hopes were soon dashed for those who thought “camp” was going to be better than the “Assembly Centers.”