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Searles Lake Non-Metallic Minerals This mineral treasure chest was not recognized as such by the emigrants who camped on its shore and tasted of its brackish waters while escaping from Death Valley In the spring of , Zoom out to Searles Valley. Country Life Realty Wrightwood, Ca. On the far side of the field, under a single pop-up tent, a handful of Ridgecrest adults squinted in the glare off Griffith Field.

The Tornadoes, who practice there, bounced back up after each play, as though they were playing at the Rose Bowl. Trona High and the Pit triumphed over the Crusaders in a blow-out. Students danced during slow songs, zipping from table to table to sit with their friends during faster-paced tunes. The punch bowl went un-spiked.

After graduation, Redd wants to study political science at a college or university in the Los Angeles area. She wants to attend the University of Idaho. Tyler McLean, 17, a Trona High senior, the student government secretary, and tight end and defensive lineman for the Tornadoes, just wants to go. They tore down, they gutted an old building, they used the same structure and put a nice building there. Although Family Dollar sells milk, the store sells no fresh fruit or vegetables, and no meat other than lunch meat, bacon and hot dogs.

Searles finds borax on the dry surface of what is now Searles Lake. The find goes unrecognized. He uses mules to haul borax in wagons to San Pedro. Searles, in the first ever use of mule teams, only has a four-day trip to the railhead. The company borrows extensively and is placed into receivership. Austin, receiver for the California Trona Company, builds roads onto the lake and drills test wells.

American Trona Corporation establishes the company-owned town of Trona. Smith forms the West End Chemical Company. The dry lake bed contains a plethora of sodium and potassium minerals of the carbonate, sulfate, borate and halide classes, due to long sedimentation and evaporation processes which occurred over a period of about , years.

The dry lake also contains the Trona Pinnacles National Natural Landmark which consists of more then tufa spires. Trona Pinnacles has been the site of many movies and commercials because of its prehistoric mystical appeal. The Trona area offers hiking and sightseeing, or viewing historical sites around town such as the History House one of the oldest residential houses in Trona built around Trona can be a starting location for those that plan on seeing some of the other points of interest that Searles Valley has to offer, with gas, food and lodging available in town.

It It has valley views of the Slate and Argus Mountains. The climate is characterized by hot days and cool nights, with extreme arid conditions prevailing throughout the summer months. It's a dry land with average temperatures exceeding degrees during the summer.

But underneath its gritty exterior is what photographer Ewan Telford describes as "a complex industrial story. The town was designed in to house the workforce of the American Trona Corp. Over time, the workforce has dwindled because of advancing technologies and labor disputes.

The town's population, which once peaked around 7,, is now about 1, Like Benny, pictured in the 12th photo above.