Click here for additional information on Joy and the Drum Mountains.
Mining in the area was reported at Joy by John Van Cott:
"Joy (Juab) was a small mining settlement in the Drum Mountains near Mount Laird, southeast of the Fish Spring Range. Today it is a ghost town site thirty miles northwest of Delta. Harry Joy was a mining engineer from Detroit, Michigan. In 1872 he and his partner, Charles Howard, organized the Detroit Mining District with the new town of Joy as its center. Isolation and the cost of transporting ores and supplies forced the mine to shut down. The town subsequently died out."
We love spreading JOY!
[Taken from "Choice and Challenges," by Janet G. Lee, Feb 1995 LDS Ensign magazine.]
A little girl was asked to choose her favorite color from a box of crayons and write her name, but even after a third time just stood there. When her mom asked why she hadn't written her name she said, "There wasn't a pink crayon in the box." If we focus on what isn't there, we may miss out on some really good things that are there! There are lots of other colors. So - We Choose Joy!