Here's a fun historical tidbit of information:
Searles Valley Story wrote:On January 7, 1941, the Ruth Mine School District was organized in Homewood Canyon from the Darwin District. They had 22 pupils and grades 1 through 8. In less than two yeas the gold mines were closed by government order. Then the few remaining children were taken to Trona School. At the end of ten years and the mines did not open, the Ruth Mine School District was dissolved and returned to the Darwin School District in 1951. Ten years later in 1961 they were annexed to the Trona School District.
The book is called Searles Valley Story and the writing is a little rough as you can tell from a couple of those poorly constructed sentences, but the information is good!