Posted on 07/17/2007 9:11:48 PM PDT by george76
The 100-year tenure of the McMurtrey Family at a pioneer ranch in Cherry County ended June 26 with a public referee auction at Valentine.
R.E. "Ted" Turner purchased the property by offering the highest bid. Turner bought the 26,332 deeded acres for nearly $10 million...
The opening bid was $290 per acre.
It was the largest ranch land auction ever held in Cherry County, according to Eric Scott, Cherry county attorney.
The auction was ordered by the Cherry County District Court.
Erba "Hub" McMurtrey built his ranch starting with Kinkaid homesteads with three McMurtrey Brothers in 1908. Ranch acreage increased with multiple buys from settlers and neighboring ranchers.
"My father was a pioneer of the country," said Mary Alice McMurtrey ...
Media mogul Ted Turner is the largest individual landowner in North America.
Turner, the founder of CNN, now owns more than 2 million acres and 16 ranches in seven states – Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota and Oklahoma.
Combined, the acreage Turner owns is an area bigger than Delaware.
(Excerpt) Read more at nebraska.statepaper.com ...
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Two million acres and 16 ranches and he doesn’t produce anything except socialist propaganda. What a man.
No matter what he does, in the back corner of his mind, he sees himself as uppity White Trash.
He wants to institute the “Buffalo commons”. That’s why he’s buying up all the land.
He then makes money selling ‘sanctuary.’
He needs all that land to raise buffalo for his restaurants, preserve wildlife habitat, and...oh, yeah...”curb population growth”.
http://www.tedsmontanagrill.com/about_turner.html
Last I heard, the nutcase was buying water rights.
“Turner is the largest individual landowner in North America.”
I guess that makes him King....
or in this country a capitalist.
Did Ted ever pay the promised $ One Billion to the United Nations ?
If he figures out how to take it with him let me know. .
“The checks in the mail”
c’mon man, you know how the post office is—we use to be cool—it’ll be there—count on it...what happened dude...you’ve changed.
All that land and he’ll be dead soon. That’s gotta suck.
The choice of wording is interesting. The largest private landowner in the United States is International Paper. I wonder how many people are gainfully employed by Turner in the productive use of his land? Or does he just use it himself for hunting and fishing? Socialists always reveal their true colors whether they want to or not.
Apparently, Ted bought a ‘farm’ in Georgia that was also the local fishing stream.
First, he put up a fence and No Tresspassing signs. It was then closed.
The locals were not pleased.
Isn’t it just terrible when people who own private property get to do what they want with it?
Vermejo was/is also known for elk hunting. Ted charges 22 grand for a guaranteed trophy bull.
Thanks.
Apparently, this was an old Spanish Land Grant were the locals had legal rights to cross this ranch to access trees to build and heat their homes, to hunt and fish to put food on their table, etc.
The public lands in the hills were recently deemed ‘wilderness’ , then the public access closed unless one paid Ted first.
http://www.vermejoparkranch.com/
That was the Maxwell Land Grant from the Mexican Governer. There was a lot of colorful history associated with it. The original Spanish grant to Cabeza de Vaca was in the same area.
We enjoy the history of this area. It is a back water now : compared to the Kit Carson, Santa Fe Trail, Bent Days...
The earlier Spanish and Pueblo histories are always interesting too.
Do you have any good history links or stories ?
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