Situation & Services:
175km North West of Bourke. Rural power, STD phone, UHF radio. Mail twice weekly.
Area:
16,153 ha (39,914 .93 acres) Western Lands Perpetual lease. Shire rates $2,167.50, Western Lands Rental $820.60, W.D.D.B. rates $726.89, L.H.P.A. rates $580.00
Country:
Mulga and Mulga watercourse country consisting of the Windy Weather Creek and 35 Mile Creek systems. Higher stony country to the north forms the system which provides beneficial flooding into Mulga watercourses and some box flats and swamps. Other timber consists of beefwood, corkwood and ironwood.
The country is well grassed with good stands of neverfail, woolly butt, Mulga Mitchell, Mulga Oats, kerosene grass, and speargrass. Some heather bush, turkey bush and odd hopbush in places. The country grows good stands of crowsfoot and winter herbages in season.
Improvements:
Four bedroom home with built-ins, main with ensuite and walk-in wardrobe. Open plan lounge/dining room. Nice timber kitchen, sunroom and new bathroom. Ducted air-conditioning and two slow combustion heaters. Bore water connected to the house.
13.8m x 10m enclosed garage/workshop. Four well built dog enclosures with raised kennels and cement pads.
Steel framed, four-stand, long board woolshed equipped with Lister overhead gear and Southern Cross diesel motor and generator. Large wool room, wooltable and eight steel wool bins. All steel sheep yards with bugle draft capable of working 2,000-3,000 sheep.
Twelve person shearers' quarters, fully equipped for nine people; with verandahs, washroom and ablution block.
Steel panel cattleyards with the capacity to handle 300 head with central round yard. RPM custom cattle crush, calf race and Morrisey cradle.
800 metre air strip.
Water:
One bore equipped with Grunphos solar pump servicing; 1 x 2,000 gallon tank and trough, 3 x 3,000 gallon tanks and troughs and 3 x 5,000 gallon tanks and troughs. One well, equipped with a ten foot Southern Cross windmill, 5,000 gallon tank and trough. Eight ground tanks.
Fencing:
Subdivided into four grazing paddocks, three holding paddocks and three mustering enclosures. Approximately 60% near new steel suspension fencing and 40% wooden plain wire and or netting in good to fair condition. Twenty-three kilometres of new boundary fencing completed in the last five years.
Carrying Capacity:
Current operation has been running 300 cows, selling calves as weaners.
Carbon:
C.A.C.: Carbon Abatement Contract in place under the Emissions Reduction Fund with 72068 Kyoto A.C.C.U.s contracted over the next nine years, yielding a significant income stream.
*Prospective purchasers should seek independent, professional advice regarding the Project and their potential rights and obligations under the C.A.C.*
For more information from the Clean Energy Regulator visit: http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/
Remarks:
This property is equally suited to a sheep or cattle operation with good improvements and infrastructure to support both enterprises with opportunity for seasonal harvest of goats, with the added benefit of an income stream from carbon.
