From: meepmeep@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article <40170CC8.4060705@texas.net>, firstinitiallastname@texas.net says...   
      
      
   >I thought of the King Ranch   
      
   I thought of that too before writing the   
   more general description of large ranch   
   influences on local politics. I can't   
   now recall the name of the ranch operation   
   in the lower SW corner of New Mexico - and   
   maybe it laps over into AZ, but it has a   
   much rougher reputation (historically and   
   contemporarily) than does the King Ranch.   
   Not sure, but it may be known today   
   as the Gray Ranch.   
      
   I don't recall the King Ranch being all that   
   controversial in its operations. The one   
   in NM was supposed to have been a hotbed   
   of "outlaws" on the run who were employed   
   there from time to time. Today it is in the   
   news because of its strategic location   
   along the border, and the virtual invasion   
   by drug and human smuggling operations,   
   to say nothing of those simply immigrating   
   illegally through border ranch properties.   
      
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