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- BUSINESS, Page 41Business NotesREAL ESTATETed's Home On the Range
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- When cable-TV titan Ted Turner bought a 110,000-acre
- Montana cattle ranch for $22 million earlier this month, his new
- neighbors suspected ulterior motives. They imagined that Turner,
- who earlier had bought 21,000 acres nearby, might carve up the
- scenic Rocky Mountain property for homesites or even sell part
- of it to a New Age cult.
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- But the Atlanta-based businessman denies any such
- intentions. He told a Bozeman town meeting last week that he
- would sell rights to hunt elk on his property and plans to
- replace the ranch's 3,000 head of cattle with buffalo, which
- produce low-cholesterol meat. But Turner refuses to allow
- campers to cross his land. Says he: "I bought the place because
- I wanted to get away from people. We live in an increasingly
- overcrowded world, and I'm becoming a hermit."
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