CONTEMPORARY JUAB COUNTY
Other County
305
Developments
In 1951 a flood destroyed the upper power plant equipment and the facility was closed. In November 1985 Nephi began purchasing electricity from the Utah Municipal Power Association. Mona. The church built in Mona in 1884 was used until a new M o r m o n chapel was erected in 1949. Since then the members at Mona remodeled and improved the church several times. Juab School District gave the ground on which the earlier brick school stood to the town of Mona and officials turned it into a park. According to a local historian, Volunteers tore the old building down, built the memorial monument, hauled in the dirt, planted grass, furnished the playground equipment, planted the trees, installed the drinking fountain, and fixed up the ball field. The Park was dedicated in July of 1976. The bell from the brick school built in 1907 is the same bell used in earlier schools as an Indian alarm or emergency signal in the early days, or as a call to school. It is enshrined on the memorial m o n u ment. This monument was laid with sandstone and bricks from the old school. It was built by Everd Squire.83 In the early 1950s the town of Mona began surfacing its roads with asphalt. The project was continued as finances became available until all of the roads in the town were surfaced. Agriculture, Ranching, and the Military. Agriculture still thrives in much of eastern Juab County, although with consolidation into larger farming operations some small communities have essentially gone from the map. Dean Howard stayed on in Mills after his children married and moved away and his wife died, living there until he died in December 1990. Beginning in about 1997, three families had purchased property and were living in Mills. With hard work and sacrifice, John Ingram of Nephi eventually owned 5,000 sheep. As his sons grew, they helped with the sheep, and when Ingram died in 1939 two of his sons—Clarence with his sons Don and Dick, and Angus with his son John—took over the business. Angus Ingram finally sold his herd in 1973 and Clarence and his sons sold theirs in 1974. These were the last sheep herds of any size remaining in the East Juab area.
