Tucumcari, N.M. As you would expect, all of these holdings are essentially livestock ranches, cattle or sheep or horses, with some farming and other uses. Edmund F. Ball, Muncie IN, 45,000 acres, 31. The headquarter property. The foundation has since expanded its landholdings, and the Conservancy has acquired additional easements. To be a little more specific, the west is still alive in Seligman, Arizona, home to Arizonas largest and oldest cattle operations in the state, Diamond A Ranch. Even then, it can take dozens of acres to support one cow-calf unit. Indeed, much of New Mexico's vast federal acreage today is the result of disallowed Mexican or Spanish land grants. The Ranch lies at 5100' elevation, just west of the Continental Divide in southwest New Mexico. Forest Service shoots 19 cattle in wilderness, Many ideas to address behavioral health crisis, no coordination, Silver to involve police in student mental crises, Closed grievance hearing dominates Cobre meeting. Thatcher of Pueblo, CO, as a subsidiary operation to the Bloom Land and Cattle Company. That's a lot of land. Looking forward to hearing from you! The 19th-century rooms of the adobe wing were in a dilapidated state. 1,579.94 The room features a bronze sculpture of two cowboys shaking hands as a gesture of hospitality in a room intended for entertaining large groups of guests. Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository. By 1977, much of the Diamond A land in New Mexico was owned by Robert O. Anderson, Arco oil tycoon. Decades of boom and bust have forced the division and sale of many large spreads. Colin McMillan & Benjamin Rummerfield, Roswell NM, Tulsa OK, 55,000 acres, 24. Border Patrol officials have called the unforgiving terrain. Set on 120,000 acres in the arid lands of northeastern New Mexico, Diamond A Ranch is a working sheep ranch with a long history and a series of owners who each added to its expansive plan. CLN: What is the brief history of the Diamond A Ranch? Kryloff and Barrett last wrote for, in October when they and Ray Langley co-authored. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property. CLN: Can you give us a few more details on how you raise your ranch horses? STAG RANCH Stag Ranch is a 1,000 head cattle ranch located in Elko Co. Nevada. set out to identify the state's 40 largest private individual or family landowners by acreage and provide some sense of their histories. D.R. 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. Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre education center and retreat not far from the village of Abiqui in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. The company also purchased a ranch in South Dakota. The Felder family owned the Ranch for a few years, and then sold it to the Berrien Anderson family in 1938. 36 to 40. On October 23, 1884, Frank Divers sold the TAX Ranch to the Elliott Cattle Company of Midland for $34,000. The Nature Conservancy included the Gray Ranch on its Last Great Places list, and the Hadley family gave portions to the Animas Foundation, an environmentally concerned group headed by the Hadley family. 1. 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. Please note: The Animas Foundation discourages visitors to the Diamond A Ranch. The Flying W Diamond Ranch, Inc. is a privately owned, working cattle ranch in Southern New Mexico. Wootten family, Springer NM, 35,000 acres, 39. Like the land, theyve weathered the suck-your-skin-dry winds and the relentless sun, but given a little moisture and warmth, they reveal a vibrancy that rivals any springtime in the Southwest. Floyd Blackburn, Dumas TX, 35,000 acres, 40. With 640 acres to a square mile, our minimum is about 55 square miles -- roughly a square 7 1/2 miles along each side. This landscape is home to the ridge-nosed rattlesnake, Baird's sparrow, white-sided jackrabbit and pronghorn. 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. Contents1 Who owns the largest ranch in New Mexico?2 How big is the [] Oden changed the name of the ranch to TAX from the brand Divers had used. The Diamond A Cattle Company was a nationally-known ranching outfit based in New Mexico and Colorado between 1885 and 1939. With my background in digital marketing and rodeo, this was a natural fit for me to join the team. | Visit ArchivesSpace.org This created great controversy. Monday through Friday Yet Turner, who lives in Roswell--Georgia, not New Mexico--is not the biggest personal landowner in the Land of Enchantment. Mike & Deborah Smith, Pampa TX, 40,000 acres, 32. Our cutoff point worked out to be 35,000 acres. One bill would By JO LUTZ Members of our team made hundreds of telephone calls, visited some of the state's 33 county courthouses to examine land records and poured through library holdings. Hi everyone! We counted only deeded acreage and not land leased from governmental agencies or other private landowners. Lamy, N.M. Sam Britt, Grenville NM, 50,000 acres, 25. Making Miracles Cowboy Community Rallies for Singleton Ranch Kiddo. This vast landscape includes the former Gray Ranch, a spectacular 321,000 acres hosting more than 700 species of plants, 75 mammals, 50 reptiles and amphibians and 170+ types of breeding birds. The landscape architecture firm of Quennell Rothschild used traditional irrigation channels to separate the domestic landscape of the lawn and house gardens from the ranchs fields, pastures and orchards. Youve already signed up with this email address. The approach to the house was carefully arranged to blend seamlessly with the surrounding rural landscape, with driveways and parking areas screened from view. Leon E. Williams, New York businessman, acquired the Wagon Mound and South Dakota ranches. The horses that the ranch offers for sale at the Legacy Ranch Horse Sale (in partnership with Cholla Livestock) are really broke, solid ranch horses that can continue to be ranch horses or end up in some of the highest levels of performance horses competitions in the country. Terms of Use The Diamond A is conveniently located a little over an hours drive from Amarillo, and about three hours from Lubbock, Wichita Falls and Oklahoma City. It is truly one of the most significant natural sites in the nation. Moreover, a full 30% of our list live outside New Mexico, where, perhaps, capital is easier to come by. At that time, The Bloom Land and Cattle Company acquired the Diamond A Ranch in Chaves County, New Mexico and the Circle Diamond Ranch in Lincoln County, N.M., combining the two ranches into a large cattle and sheep ranching outfit called the Diamond A Cattle Company. For months prior to the U.S. Border Patrols decision, ranchers had held meetings in nearby Lordsburg, N.M., signed petitions and wrote letters demanding that the border patrol build the outpost on federal land closer to the border. | Less than half is in private hands anyway. Williams was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1915 and a benefactor of the college throughout much of his life. That's the big news from a pioneering Crosswinds project focusing on this question: Crosswinds set out to identify the state's 40 largest private individual or family landowners by acreage and provide some sense of their histories. While we tried to confirm acreages in some cases we relied on knowledgeable estimates from land experts. We're grateful for the enthusiastic support for our efforts! For example, families who descended from the areas original homesteaders used to hold reunions on land now owned by Diamond A. The Santa Fe New Mexican Please enter a valid email address (formatted as name@company.com). The Diamond A Ranch offers some of the best hunting in the Texas Panhandle with both whitetail and mule deer found on the ranch. | The Animas Foundation is an organization dedicated to protecting the natural values of the Diamond A Ranch while maintaining the cultural and economic heritage of the bootheel country. The ranch raises. Cain family, Belen NM, Mountainair NM, elsewhere, 45,000 acres, 29. John Malone: 2.2 million acres in Maine, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. | He has since relocated to the Los Angeles area. David Salman family, Mora NM, 40,000 acres, 33. New Mexico hosts some of North Americas best remaining grasslands. In addition to an outstanding cattle and recreational ranch, the Diamond A offers the perfect get-away retreat, with a new, 2,000 sq. Historically, vast chunks of land were granted to private citizens as either a reward for services rendered, a payoff for political support or as a means by which a government solidified its influence over a region. The ranch runs an Angus genetic-based cow herd. For this 100,000 acre ranch in New Mexicos high mountains, Quennell Rothschild & Partners carefully augmented the existing vegetation and mature trees to create outdoor spaces that accentuate views of the nearby hills, the Hondo River and surrounding apple orchards. The disputes between the ranchers and Diamond A also played out in January when the U.S. Border Patrol announced it would build an outpost on a plot owned by Diamond A rather than on U.S. Bureau of Land Management land closer to the border. 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. Diamond A Cattle Company Records (MSS 355), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University of New Mexico Libraries. , which in March published a pioneering list of the country's 100 largest landowners, including 12 on this list. John Yates family, Mayhill NM, elsewhere, 100,000 acres, 12. They said the proposed outpost on Diamond A land made the most strategic sense in battling Mexican cartel traffickers who routinely travel through nearby mountains with carpet stuck to the bottoms of their shoes to hide their tracks. His long and colorful career in the range cattle business began when he was made foreman of a ranch at the age of twenty-one. Water, although used sparingly in this dry landscape, has a pervasive dramatic impact throughout the design. Seligman, Ariz. Indian rights were not always considered. The ranch is cross fenced into basically 3 main pastures of approximately 500 acres each, with a small trap at the pens. Read: 9 Successful Money-Making 'Schemes' That Are Actually Legal 49. This program is designed to give you the ability to buy insurance protection for losses of forage produced for grazing or harvested for hay, which result in increased costs for feed, destocking, depopulating, or other actions. Please enter a valid email address (formatted as name@company.com). Ted Turner is not the biggest. magazine as an associate editor. 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. Smaller, area ranchers accuse Diamond A Ranch of routinely putting up fences on public land and trying to close roads by erecting gates with padlocks, a move that on at least one occasion drew an injunction from a state judge. 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. Dietricha veritable cattle-industry icon passed away at the age of 84 after contracting COVID-19 in 2020. Henry Singleton, Beverly Hills CA, 1,200,000 acres, 2. New Mexico: ADM2_CODE 043: ADM2_FULL_NAME Sandoval County: FULL NAME Diamond Tail Ranch: FULL_NAME_ND Diamond Tail Ranch: SORT_NAME DIAMONDTAILRANCH: LATITUDE 35.3209: LONGITUDE -106.389: WEATHER: Ver el tiempo The entrance arch that identifies access to the Diamond A Ranch is based on local vernacular of simple steel gates and cattle guards at the entrance to ranch properties. It is one of a number of ranches under the ownership of Silver Spur Ranches, a 1-million-acre aggregate of cattle and horse operations. 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. Border Patrol officials have called the unforgiving terrain,where Geronimo made his last stand, one of the last unguarded regions between the United States and Mexico. Diamond A Ranch - Peter Pennoyer Architects slide 1 of 14 Diamond A Ranch 1/14 An unexpected oasis of poplar trees and orchards in the foothills of the Capitan Mountains, Diamond A Ranch is a 120,000 acre-property in central New Mexico. William D. Sanders, Santa Fe NM & El Paso TX, 45,000 acres, 28. In the Malpai Borderlands of southern Arizona and New Mexico, ranchers and conservationists have joined forces to protect a unique landscape. provide an honest assessment and discourage you from purchasing unnecessary coverage. Nos. The dining room is meant to recall elements of the Greek Revival period when the main house was originally built. For this 100,000 acre ranch in New Mexico's high mountains, Quennell Rothschild & Partners carefully augmented the existing vegetation and mature trees to create outdoor spaces that accentuate views of the nearby hills, the Hondo River and surrounding apple orchards. For more than a decade Singleton has been quietly buying far smaller ranches between Santa Fe and Roswell--but a whole lot of them. It is an integrated operation, raising quality cattle and top-performing horses. Get text updates from The Nature Conservancy: The hills of the Diamond A Ranch in New Mexico. Since 1886, Babbit Ranches has been guided by cowboy values, now outline in the ranchs Constitution. Call Clint Robinson at (806) 786-3730 for a private showing. This vast landscape includes the former Gray Ranch, a spectacular 321,000 acres hosting more than 700 species of plants, 75 mammals, 50 reptiles and amphibians and 170+ types of breeding birds. $1,500,000.00. You can see what theyve been able to accomplish with the Navajo Nation here. 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. He proposes to construct a parking lot at the boundary to allow public access into the forest. [1][2], The ranch headquarters is an L-shaped building constructed of 2 feet (0.61m) thick walls. Consisting of 725,000 acres spanning 75 miles from north to south. An article published nationally in 1885, ``Land Stealing in New Mexico,'' caused a sensation. Description The Diamond A Ranch is a 500-square-mile gem nestled in the boot heel of New Mexico. Thatcher of Pueblo, CO, as a subsidiary operation to the Bloom Land and Cattle Company. 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. The ranch is comprised of 1,579.94 acres and boasts excellent cattle grazing, an outstanding wildlife habitat and wide-open scenic views. In addition to restoring the Jacobean library, PPA added a new connecting bar with studded leather panels and rebuilt the pool pavilion in the Greek Revival style. Here, tall mountain rangesnorthern extensions of Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidentalrise high above the grasslands of the Chihuahuan Desert. Leslie & Linda Davis, Cimmaron NM 125,000 acres, 10. Born in 1867 in Illinois, Cap Mossman had arrived in New Mexico with his family in 1882. Daily Press Staff In addition, there are 5 dirt tanks constructed on the ranch, and 4 constant level ponds fed by well water. Claims are paid. Parks Creek is a seasonal creek that traverses the ranch from North to South for almost 3 miles and contains a variety of vegetation and cover. The courtyards vary in scale and character that range from small totally paved spaces with water rills and a quiet fountain to shaded cool lawns that focus on a single existing mature tree. Temperatures stretch from subzero cold in the high canyons to a low broil on the summer flats. CLN: Is there anything youd like to add that you think our audience should know about the Diamond A Ranch? The approach to the house was carefully arranged to blend seamlessly with the surrounding rural [] 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. 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