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20,000 acres located approximately 20 miles northeast of Sanderson, seven (7) miles off of U. S. Highway 90 on a firm caliche road in Terrell County, Texas.
This is one of the better ranches in the general area and it is being well maintained. A fine lighted and paved county landing strip is within ten miles of the headquarters house. Approximately ten sections at the west end of the ranch could be sold separately, however, the owners would want a buyer for the balance of the ranch and want the two sales to be consummated at the same time.
There is and easement across this ranch to the neighbor to the west. It is seldom used except for hauling livestock or during livestock working times times and cannot be used for hunters or oil field traffic. This ranch could also be divided into smaller tracts and sold for twice the price. Other lesser ranches in the area have already done this.
This is one of the maintained ranches in west Texas, with super clean neat headquarters, fine caliche plated roads, finely maintained waterings and watering systems, good grass and forage in most pastures, fine mule deer and whitetail deer hunting, good fences and pens.
Carrying Capacity:
Average grazing conditions will allow approximately 450 to 500 A.U. This rates this ranch at approximately 40 acres per animal unit under normal range conditions. It is presently very dry, however, it is now supporting a heavy load and everything on the ranch is fat.
Improvements:
There is a well-improved three bedroom two bath home with a rock fireplace. This is a very nice modern home with good facilities and is in fine condition, nice enough for most anyone.
Near this house is a nice hollow tile bunk house, a five car garage, shop and store rooms, a very large steel barn, pipe roping arena, a two car carport and a steel shearing shed with pens, livestock scales and loading chute.
At the west area of the ranch is a two bedroom stucco house with a fireplace and a steel shearing shed with pens. There is also another steel shearing shed and pens located in about the center of the ranch. Improvements in these two latter locations are in average to good condition.
Minerals:
There are 1,894.7 acres of minerals classified and 510.3294 acres of fee minerals spread over 6,239 acres. These are all of the minerals that the owners have and will convey.
Taxes:
Approximately $3400 per year.
Terms:
1031 Exchange will be considered.
For more information, contact:
Clay Mitchell
(432) 345-2340
cc3m1@direcway.com
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Topography:
Gently rolling hills with some large draws to rugged limestone rimrock hills with some overflow sites.
Elevations run from 2,500 to 3,267 feet above sea level.
This good ranch has a wide variety of terrain, with several large wide draws that overflow at times, are highly productive, and the creek beds produce a multitude of trees and brushes, including hackberrys, mesquites, kidney wood, walnuts,catclaw, persimmons, mescats, and others of lesser nature.
There are some large wide open low ridges in the east part of the ranch that are excellent grass producers and are highly productive in many ways.
There are some broken hills and canyons that range from rugged to moderate, with some heavy sotol, catclaw, guayacan, kidney wood, persimmon and other brushes. The variation is very noticeable, and the forage and growth varies according to the area, slope, soils, and topography.
Vegetation:
Grasses are native and consist mostly of threeawn and gramma grasses.
Trees consist mostly of mesquite, cedar and shinoak. As typical of this country, the many areas with some greasewood.
There is no bitter weed on the ranch.
Approximately 700 acres has been treated with Spike which controls broomweed, catclaw, sage, whitebrush, greasewood, cresote brush, etc. These areas have excellent grass cover and are highly productive in grasses of multitude varieties along with the best native edible brushes.
The draw areas are usually brushy with shin oak trees, cedars, junipers, persimmons, hackberrys, mesquites, and others, gauging into less density on the slopes away from the creeks.
Fences:
The ranch is fenced with net and barbed wire fencing into 20 pastures and seven traps.
Fences are in average to good condition.
There are several miles of new or like new outside/ bound dry fence lines, and there are several miles of new partition fence lines.
Fences are on heart cedar or metal posts, with several stays between each post.
Water:
The ranch is watered by eight wells with 20.25 miles of new pipe line, 18 storage tanks, 18 header tanks and 66 water troughs.
Five of these wells have windmills and submersible. pumps.
They average in depth from approximately 550 to 600 feet with the exception of one well, which is 800-900 feet.
There are two side-by-side electric powered wells at the headquarters with 3 more of the ranch wells powered by electric pumps.
The other 3 wells are powered by 16 foot Aermotor windmills on steel towers.
Water storage on this ranch is outstanding, with large concrete or rock or steel reservoirs at each well and at many places along the many miles of pipe- lines.
The many header tanks are fine waterings, usually furnishing stock water year around in normal rainfall years. Well water on this is good sweet, potable and cold.
Rainfall:
The average rainfall according to the owners is approximately 15-16 inches per year, growing season is approximately 237 days per year, average annual temperatures range from 30 degrees to 90 degrees.
Terrell County has approximately 1600 inhabitants with about 900 living in Sanderson.
Recreation:
Blacktail and whitetail deer hunting is very good.
There are approximately 600 deer on the ranch and this number could be at least doubled if livestock was taken off.
The deer have been managed and fed and there is excellent opportunity to increase this enterprise.
There are also turkey, blue quail, dove, javelina, varmints, and some exotics in place.
Hunting annually brings in about $1,000 to $1,500 per gun.
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