Situation and Services:
86 km. North West of Bourke, 18 km. from Fords Bridge. Rural power, telephone, satellite T.V., broadband internet. U.H.F. set and aerial. Mail twice weekly. Mobile service from car kit.
Area:
17,651 ha. (43,616 acres) Western Lands Perpetual title holding. Western Lands Rental $839.94. Bourke Shire Rates $2512.50. L.H.P.A. Rates $756.80. Wild Dog tax $794.30.
Country:
The Warrego River fed Kerribree Creek transverses the property N.E. to S.W. Coonbilly Creek runs through the N.W. portion.
Stony Mulga Ridge with Heather Bush in the lesser portion of the north, down to the lower rises and Mulga flats, with some pushed Mulga country. Good balance of high and low Mulga running down to good expanses of well grassed flooded creek flats.
Undulating semi open, soft sandy loam and red soils with moderate to heavy woody shrubs and edible timber. Box swamps and low lying flats fed by local watercourses.
Timber comprises Mulga, Bimble Box, River Box, Belah, Pine, Ironwood, Rosewood, Leopardwood, Beefwood and Supplejack.
Pastures include Button Grass, Woollybutt, Wire Grass, Silver Grass, Spear Grass and Copperburr with Warrego Summer grass and Nardoo in the flood country.
Improvements:
Partly renovated house, new kitchen with walk in pantry, open plan living, new bathroom and laundry. One of the 3 bedrooms fully renovated. Colorbond iron trim. Whole house has been rewired and replumbed.
40' x 20' steel framed garage/workshop with one concrete bay, timber workbench.
Old, 5 stand bush timber framed woolshed with 3 individual electric overhead shearing stands.
Substantial large set all steel goat/sheep yards with bugle style, 3 way draft. Serviced by 3 holding paddocks and a laneway. Water laid on.
Fencing:
5 grazing paddocks, 5 holding paddocks and laneway. All steel fencing with hingedjoint.
27 km. electrified, cleared fence lines.
Water:
4 bores: 1 dribbler flowing bore at homestead, with 4" submersible pump, 1 dribbler flowing bore which is windmill equipped, 1 dribbler flowing bore which is free flowing, 1 windmill equipped sub artesian.
2 shared Darling L.H.P.A. owner bores.
4 ground tanks, 2 of which are enclosed. 2 recently desilted.
Kerribree and Coonbilly Creeks. Kerribree has a licenced dam.
A Property Vegetation Plan is in place across the entire property. 3 in 15 years cultivation permit on 5000 acres.
Carrying Capacity:
Currently running 2,500 Dorpers, 100 Cows and 1000 Nannies.