"Diamond A" Sold
JOHN F. MECK '33, Vice President and Treasurer of the College, recently announced the sale of the historic Diamond A Ranch near Wagon Mound, Mora County, New Mexico. Dartmouth had acquired the 91,000-acre ranch by bequest of the late Leon E. Williams '15, who died May 26, 1958.
No figure was announced in connection with the sale of the ranch to Robert O. Anderson, president of Hondo Oil and Gas Company, Roswell, N. M. More than 2600 head of cattle were included in the sale. The ranch was one of the properties of the old Diamond A Cattle Company, headed by Burton C. Mossman, a famous frontier figure who was founder of the Arizona Rangers and a member of the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma.
Leon Williams, who left the ranch to Dartmouth, was a tax authority with accounting offices in Denver, New York and Washington at various times. He owned ranches in South Dakota and Nebraska as well as New Mexico, and from 1944 on he devoted himself entirely to ranching and banking interests. He was president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Great Divide in 1930-31.
