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Byline: Fritz Thompson Journal Staff Writer
Diamond Bar's cattle move is culmination of long, bitter battle over water rights and grazing on federal land in the Gila high country
ON THE DIAMOND BAR -- A Brangus bull is grazing the green grass of the creek bottom, up the road and through the gate to the isolated Diamond Bar ranch house. Kit Laney is in the kitchen, still wearing spurs with small rowels and brewing a pot of his "high test" coffee.
He's talking cattle.
He says the bull and a smattering of nearby cows -- the last of his livestock -- will be driven off the ranch in the coming days, in keeping with a court order. It will be ...