If the buyer is interested, the owner will consider also selling the John Deere tractor, shredder, riding mower and 3 utility vehicles on the ranch. In 1997, a district judge ordered Hadley to remove the padlock he put on a cattle gate on County Road 2 near Cloverdale. Butler heirs, Massachusetts, elsewhere, 95,000 acres, 15. He has since relocated to the Los Angeles area. Box 1371 These grants often conflicted with what Indian tribes and pueblos saw as their property rights from time immemorial. As the founder of Cable News Network and now vice chairman of Time Warner, Ted Turner is famous, even legendary. Moise family, Albuquerque NM, 50,000 acres, 26. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Central Elementary School wont get a gymnasium after all, as remaining funds from the bond By JO LUTZ In 1894 The Santa Fe New Mexican reported he owned about 2 million acres and was part-owner or lawyer for owners of another 4 million acres. The horses and cowboys of the Diamond A are part of an old cowboy tradition that continues to live on throughout the southwest and with a strong dedication to people, cattle, and horses the Diamond A strives to continue as a leader in the industry. this region. Decades of boom and bust have forced the division and sale of many large spreads. My adventurous and entrepreneurial spirit has guided me to work in many places like the WYO Quarter Horse Ranch in Thermopolis, Wyoming, a working cattle ranch in Seligman, Arizona, and many places in between. This spacious home is light and bright, with great views of the ranch countryside. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the 1848 agreement that ended the Mexican War and ceded most of what is now New Mexico to the United States, protected grant holders who had perfected their titles. Diamond A Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico, 2023 Quennell Rothschild & Partners, LLP - All Rights Reserved, 15 Maiden Lane, Suite 1200, New York, NY 10038. Elevations on the approximately 272 square miles of the ranch range from 6,000 feet along the Gila River's East Fork to Diamond Peak at 10,000 feet. Wesley D. Adams, Logandale NV, 95,000 acres, 14. Property taxes are relatively low, offset by sky-high state income taxes and a gross receipts tax that unlike those in many other states does not exempt foodstuffs, clothing or clothing. Privacy Statement One well is dedicated to the home, and a separate well is utilized for the sprinkler system, which has been installed surrounding the home and also at the front entrance gate. Dietricha veritable cattle-industry iconpassed away at the age of 84 after contracting COVID-19 in 2020. The Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization (tax identification number 53-0242652) under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. 9 were here. Juliet Casey, Daniel J. Chacon, Nick Kryloff, Dan McCay, Susan Montoya and Martin Salazar are Special Projects Reporters for Crosswinds. Associates: Nebojsa Savic, Kevin Dakan, Miriam Cantelmi, Claudia Mulas, Christopher Stoer, Landscape Architect: Quennell Rothschild & Partners, Interior Design: Thomas Jayne, Jayne Design Studio. The walls are also adobe here, with old-fashioned printed chintz curtains and silk velvet sofas for contrast. There is an attractive mix of hardwood trees along the creek, including very large cottonwoods on the Southern end of the ranch. . The Hadley family, heirs of the Anheuser-Busch beer company fortune, own 260,000 acres, including the massive Diamond A Ranch, which makes up a substantial part of New Mexico's southwestern tip. Bogle family, Dexter NM, 100,000 acres, 11. https://nmarchives.unm.edu/repositories/22/resources/1563 Accessed March 01, 2023. If you're looking for a write-up, please shoot me an email at krysta@clngo.com. Spires family, Cliff NM, Ruidoso NM, Snyder TX, 40,000 acres, 38. This landscape is home to the ridge-nosed rattlesnake, Baird's sparrow, white-sided jackrabbit and pronghorn. Raton, N.M. In 1894. reported he owned about 2 million acres and was part-owner or lawyer for owners of another 4 million acres. The Diamond A ranch also known as the Big Boquillas is located in Northern Arizona. In many ways, however, the histories are more important than the numbers. Kryloff and Barrett last wrote for Crosswinds in October when they and Ray Langley co-authored The Crosswinds 25, a list of the state's richest persons. The owner reports both water quantity and quality is good. Nor do you have to be filthy rich to own significant land in New Mexico. Formerly known as the Boquillas, or the 3V, the 770,000-acre Diamond A is considered the largest ranch in Arizona. Bidegain family, Tucumcari NM, 180,000 acres, 6. The rustic nature of the baroque-style furniture imported to the West suits the passage to the adobe wing. Once included in the largest land grant in history (the 1,714,765-acre Maxwell Land Grant), this semi-arid ranchland contributes greatly to the production of Express Ranches 6,000 registered Angus, Limousin, and Lim-Flex cattle. This created great controversy. In 1870, however, Dameron sold it, along with his herd, to the brothers Jim C. and William R. Curtis in Jack County. As the founder of Cable News Network and now vice chairman of Time Warner, Ted Turner is famous, even legendary. The RO lies northwest of Prescott, consisting of 257,000 acres, acquired in 1936 by the Greene Cattle Company. User is responsible for compliance with all copyright, privacy, and libel laws. 28 to 35 | Nos. The Ranch consist of 49,351+ acres of State Lease and 185+ deeded acres. Historically, houses in New Mexico were furnished with a combination of locally made furniture, often in the Hispanic tradition, decorative arts from Europe and Asia and, after the establishment of railroads to the eastern United States, furniture manufactured there. I am beyond thrilled to be the Editor in Chief for Cowboy Lifestyle Network. To our knowledge, such a project concentrating exclusively on New Mexico never before has been published. The ranch is nicely improved with a new owners home, fencing, cattle guards and dirt tanks. $1,500,000.00. For more than a decade Singleton has been quietly buying far smaller ranches between Santa Fe and Roswell--but a whole lot of them. Were friendly with them but its been an ongoing battle.. The largest, most historic ranches in the Southwest. The 200,000-acre T4 includes the Mesa Rica area of the 1947 Bell Ranch partition, owned and operated for three generations by the Bidegain family. 2023 The Nature Conservancy All six, students at the University of New Mexico, worked as editors or reporters on the, , the student newspaper. The owner is reporting good populations of bobwhite quail. The ceiling paper is an 19th century pattern from Bradbury & Bradbury. The ranch is comprised of 1,579.94 acres and boasts excellent cattle grazing, an outstanding wildlife habitat and wide-open scenic views. Huning family, Los Lunas NM, 160,000 acres, 8. This property, including all recently completed improvements, is being realistically offered at $1,295 per acre. The company was created in 1885 by Frank G. Bloom of Trinidad, Colorado, and M.D. SOLD. The bloodlines of the ranch are mostly from cow and ranch horse stock and include Tanquery Gin, Doc OLena, Colonel Freckles, Peppy San Badger, Bueno Chex, Driftwood, Zan Parr Bar, PlayGun, Easy Jet, and Doc Tom Tucker. where Geronimo made his last stand, one of the last unguarded regions between the United States and Mexico. The ranch is cross fenced into basically 3 main pastures of approximately 500 acres each, with a small trap at the pens. R.E. The Early Development of Diamond A In 1961, Anderson sold the ranch to the developers, Thomas Burke & Jack Fisher, for $400,000. provide an honest assessment and discourage you from purchasing unnecessary coverage. Their expertly trained professionals will walk you through a range of options using risk-assessment tools that will take the pressure off when there is a drought in your area. Floyd Blackburn, Dumas TX, 35,000 acres, 40. Ponds on the ranch are ready to be stocked with fish for the owners enjoyment. Mike & Deborah Smith, Pampa TX, 40,000 acres, 32. In addition to an outstanding cattle and recreational ranch, the Diamond A offers the perfect get-away retreat, with a new, 2,000 sq. The Santa Fe New Mexican Hadley said he owned the road built during the Mexican-American War, but county officials disagreed and said it was preventing others from using the public road built by the U.S. Army. For example, families who descended from the areas original homesteaders used to hold reunions on land now owned by Diamond A. , which in March published a pioneering list of the country's 100 largest landowners, including 12 on this list. The Lucy Ranch in Torrance County New Mexico $ 5,500,000 The Lucy Ranch is located in the center of New Mexico just off HWY 60 in Torrance County. A one-hour drive south of Silver City, the Pitchfork is six miles from the nearest neighboring ranch and . Running anywhere from 1,300 to 16,000 head of cattle on land that maintains the borders of its 1832 land grant by the Republic of Mexico, the Brophys are recognized for their commitment to the land and were the recipients of the 2008 Environmental Stewardship Award. Our cutoff point worked out to be 35,000 acres. Whittenburg III, Dallas TX and Amarillo TX, 85,000 acres, 17. The home sits at ground level, with concrete and sidewalk landscaping, a bricked retaining wall, sprinkler system in the yard, and a curbed and graveled driveway leading up to the home. The company also purchased a ranch in South Dakota. The chandelier is an English Victorian gasolier by S. & C. Osler. We're grateful for the enthusiastic support for our efforts! Tucumcari, N.M. One of three ranches making up the 134,000-acre Campwood Cattle Company, founded in the early 1970s by W.A. Because there is always a certain margin of error to this kind of research, we rounded to the nearest 5,000 acres. We don't know of anyone today with 2 million acres of New Mexico, although oilman Robert O. Anderson, now of Roswell, may have been in that league until his fortune collapsed a few years ago. The approach to the house was carefully arranged to blend seamlessly with the surrounding rural [] We're not writing about renters. Besides any unit of government and the Indian tribes, we excluded holdings of publicly traded corporations, utilities, private corporations not dominated by an individual or a family, widely held partnerships, and non-profit entities such as foundations and religious organizations. With the purchase of Cholla Livestock by Rick and Sarah Kieckhefer, the merger of the Diamond A Ranch with the Kieckhefers K4 Ranches has created the largest cattle ranching operation in the Southwest. They also say Hadleys focus on environmental concerns, which sometimes result in vast chucks of land being set aside for wildlife, makes it harder for them to navigate through the sprawling ranch and keep up with usage rules. We may have detected a typo. An article published nationally in 1885, ``Land Stealing in New Mexico,'' caused a sensation. All of the ranch horses are raised outside on the same rangeland they work in daily. In addition to the Williams material, a very few of the documents relate to business transactions of the Bloom Land and Cattle Company. The Diamond A Ranch offers some of the best hunting in the Texas Panhandle with both whitetail and mule deer found on the ranch. But while Diamond A won praises from environmentalists, area ranchers complained that Hadley bought up smaller ranchs to increase his holdings, and also would put up fences on public land, regardless of complaints, preventing movement of cattle. The livestock business in New Mexico actually dates back to 1540 when the military explorer Francisco Vasques Coronado brought up some sheep and horses from Mexico. A portion of the ranch less than one acre in size, including two contributing buildings dating from the late 1880s or early 1890s, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Our essays include tales of fatal gunfights, political intrigue, risks taken and failed, luck, famous inventions, family dynasties, obligatory connections to Billy The Kid, tragedies, carpetbaggers, alleged UFO crashes and, of course, an abiding faith in the permanence of terra firma. The Nature Conservancy purchased the Gray Ranch in 1990 and, in 1993, retained a conservation easement and sold the property to the newly formed Animas Foundation. The livestock pens are good quality steel pipe and guardrail construction and contain 4 pens, an alley way, load out ramp, and a concrete slab working area. With its vast landscapes, varying terrains, and dry winds, todays ranchers learn early that, for the land to take care of them, they must take care of it first. The records are Williams's business and personal papers. Most documents pertain to the period after 1940 during which time Leon E. Williams owned Diamond A ranches in Wagon Mound, New Mexico and Eagle Butte, South Dakota. So are his landholdings in New Mexico: three ranches with an average size of 383,000 deeded acres each. No adjusters needed. King family, Stanley NM, 170,000 acres, 7. It is an integrated operation, raising quality cattle and top-performing horses. The Diamond Tail brand was first used in the late 1860s, when Mose Dameron of Jack County began running cattle on land now in De Baca and Roosevelt counties, New Mexico. He is a veteran journalist for national publications, most recently as a Worth magazine contributing editor. Not every grant recipient fulfilled the specified conditions to get clear title, such as taking up residence and engaging in agriculture. The Gila National Forest announced Tuesday that contractors had By Robert Nott Diamond A Cattle Company | Seligman AZ A Cowboy Tribute Steward of the Southwest: The Bell Ranchs Albert K. Mitchell. These ranchers are descendants of the Kohn family who established the original mercantile and ranching operation, headquartering at Montoya, N.M., in 1902. on land that maintains the borders of its 1832 land grant by the Republic of Mexico, under the ownership of Silver Spur Ranches, Steward of the Southwest: The Bell Ranchs Albert K. Mitchell, Once included in the largest land grant in history, Cowboy Community Rallies for Singleton Ranch Kiddo. He now owns upwards of 1.2 million acres of New Mexico, at least 50,000 acres more than Turner. | Williams was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1915 and a benefactor of the college throughout much of his life. Carl Lane Johnson, Tatum NM, 35,000 acres, From CROSSWINDS, New Mexicos largest alternative newspaper, June 1997 Copyright 1997 Crosswinds Inc. All rights reserved, By William P. Barrett, Juliet Casey, Daniel J. Chacon, Nick Kryloff, Dan McKay, Susan Montoya and Martin Salazar, New mexicos 40 largest private landowners, Ted Turner is not the biggest. Please enter a valid email address (formatted as name@company.com). Daily Press Staff CNN founder Ted Turner owns 2 million acres of land largely in New Mexico, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Georgia. Now called the Diamond A Ranch and operated by Seth Hadley, a descendant of Anheuser-Busch founder Adolphus Busch, the large holding that straddles the New Mexico-Arizona border has been called one of the "Last Great Places' by environmentalists for its focus on saving wildlife. At that time, The Bloom Land and Cattle Company . 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