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The Maytag Estate
Elizabeth Harris
08/01/06
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For ranch resident Jim
Johnson, the head of a construction company in Colorado Springs that has built
structures around the state, ranching without responsibility was appealing. “All
3,000 acres isn’t ours, but there’s somebody there taking care of the cattle,
there’s somebody else looking after the horses,” Johnson says. “So I don’t get
the call at midnight that the cows are across the highway.”
Maytag is happy
with his progress. Sharing his land with even carefully chosen strangers could
have been disastrous, but it has worked out well so far. “We’ve gotten to know
some really neat people,” he says. “We’re all kind of like-minded.” Maytag’s
father now owns only one of the ranches he once had—the rest were sold years
ago—so he watches his son’s project with interest and is considering backing a
second Maytag ranch owners’ association.
Portrait by Larry Pierce/Illustration by Allan B
urch.
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