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By then, the deeded acres had increased to over 145,000 acres (58,000 hectares). Spencer and Ross sold Douglas Lake Ranch to Charles (Chunky) Woodward and John West in 1959. West's ownership continued until his death in 1968 at which time Woodward became the sole owner.
By the end of the 1910s, the ranch operation had reached its peak, containing over 43,000 acres of deeded land, and leased acreage surpassing 200,000. It was one of the largest cattle operations in northern Arizona, and it was the largest combined cattle operation and irrigated farming venture in the state. [2]: 16–17
One of the reasons for creating sections of 640 acres (260 ha) was the ease of dividing into halves and quarters while still maintaining a whole number of acres. A section can be halved seven times in this way, down to a 5-acre (2 ha) parcel, or half of a quarter-quarter-quarter section—an easily surveyed 50-square-chain (2 ha) area. This ...
On July 16, 1946, the GLO was merged with the United States Grazing Service (established in 1934 under the Taylor Grazing Act) to become the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency of the Interior Department responsible for administering the remaining 264,000,000 acres (1,070,000 km 2) of public lands still in federal ownership. [4]
"A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...
Traditional acres were long and narrow due to the difficulty in turning the plough and the value of river front access. An oxgang was the amount of land tillable by one ox in a ploughing season. This could vary from village to village, but was typically around 15 acres. A virgate was the amount of land tillable by two oxen in a ploughing season.
As a result, some individuals posed as settlers to purchase the land at the $2.50 per acre rate and then promptly deeded them back to the railroad, which amassed the smaller plots into larger ones and resold them at a higher price to timber interests. [7] A scheme to circumvent the settler grants altogether soon emerged.
Duncan Ranch Colony is a Hutterite community [3] and census-designated place (CDP) in Wheatland County, Montana, United States.It is in the west-central part of the county, on the south side of U.S. Route 12, 9 miles (14 km) west of Harlowton, the county seat, and 3 miles (5 km) east of Twodot.