Word: ranching
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...beef ranch in the world is not the King Ranch in Texas. It is the Deseret Cattle & Citrus Ranch outside Orlando, Fla. It covers 312,000 acres; its value as real estate alone is estimated at $858 million. It is owned entirely by the Mormons. The largest producer of nuts in America, AgReserves, Inc., in Salt Lake City, is Mormon-owned. So are the Bonneville International Corp., the country's 14th largest radio chain, and the Beneficial Life Insurance Co., with assets of $1.6 billion. There are richer churches than the one based in Salt Lake City: Roman Catholic holdings...
...November 1993 when he dodged hit men from a rival drug clan who were shooting at him in a restaurant in the nation's capital. Last January, Carrillo was in the news again when he disappeared, propitiously, from his sister Aurora's wedding at the family's Guamuchilito ranch, just before law enforcers arrived to crash the event. It later emerged that Mexico's drug czar at the time, General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, had been on Carrillo's payroll. DEA agents believe Carrillo had been on the run since Gutierrez Rebollo's arrest in February...
DIED. WILLIAM TURNBULL JR., 62, iconoclastic architect whose abstract structures complemented their rugged West Coast environments; of undisclosed causes; in Sausalito, Calif. Turnbull's noted Sea Ranch condominium, with its barnlike simplicity, was designed for the rigors of the California coast...
They could use the money. Their ranch has been profitable in only two of the past 10 years, and Donna, a vivacious 61-year-old, is sick of scraping by. She wants to enjoy retirement with Duane, a soulful, laconic man of 67 who in the past two years has survived four operations and two broken limbs. But Duane is stubborn. His family has been ranching here for more than a century. "I know how I want to die," he says. "Just fall over in my field. That's the best way." Yet he also knows that when his time...
...field beside the brick house his father built sits a huge pile of stones, polished smooth by 100 winters, bleached white by 100 years of high-country sun. It was created by Trampe's grandfather, clearing this land for farming and cattle. When Trampe took over the ranch after his father's death 30 years ago, little had changed in the valley. As late as 1990, Trampe could use the road to Crested Butte to drive his herd home from the high pastures. Along the way, the cows rested in midvalley meadows he calls "crucial stepping-stones up the valley...