Aztec Land and Cattle Company, Limited is a land company with a historic presence in Arizona. It was formed in 1884 and incorporated in early 1885 as a cattle ranching operation that purchased 1,000,000 acres in northern Arizona from the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. It then imported approximately 32,000 head of cattle from Texas and commenced ranching operations in Arizona. Because Aztec's brand was a hash knife, a cooking tool used by chuckwagons to prepare beef hash, the company was known more famously as The Hashknife Outfit. The company has been in continuous existence since 1884. Wikipedia