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Agent Comments
"Colston" has a great mixture of soil, timber and pasture types that give it the bio-diversity required for the property to be run as a relatively safe breeder property. Edible top feed makes this property better able to withstand extended drought conditions. "Colston" is improved to participate in most animal industry programs together with a wholly owned gypsum mine on the property offering the discriminating prospective purchaser an excellent diversity of enterprise.
Contact
Tom Brodie - 0428 712 095
Property Details
| Lot Number : | 208 |
| Price: | Private Sale $30 per acre |
| Location: | Approx 66km south of Winton |
| Property Size: | 29494.34ha (72882ac) |
| Tenure: | Lot 1 on FM21 - Lot 2 on AE51 - Lots 4 & 6 on AE130 - Lot 6 FM20. |
| Services: | Rural power, satellite TV, DRCS phone and facsimile. Weekly mail service from Winton. Live weight weighing at Winton saleyards with rail trucking facilities. Shopping, educational and medical facilities at Winton. |
| Country: | This is a property with a very diverse cross section of soil and pasture types. Approx 50% of darker clay soil growing substantial bodies of Mitchell, Flinders, Neverfail and herbages. The balance is a mixture of mainly light sandy red type country timbered mainly with gidyea, mulga, eucalypt, whitewood, bloodwood and vine trees. Cooilbah is the main type of timber, while natual sorghum, nut grass, blue bush and seasonal herbages make up the majority of the pasture along the creek systems. |
| Rainfall: | 355mm annual average |
| Water: | Watered by 10 dams and 7 sub-bores, all equipped with mills and the majority pumping from 45ft with the exception of one which is fitted with solar tracking panels and pump. Many semi-permanent holes in creeks with a large natural lake that has approximately three months holding capacity. |
| Improvements: | Timber high set 5 bedroom homestead with approx 80 squares of living area and with garden and tennis court. There is a six stand fully equipped shearing shed. The shearer's quarters will accomodate 14 people, and is in very good condition, has also been used for tourist accomodation in previous years. 18m x 9m steel machinery shed and numerous other storage sheds. The majority of the boundary fencing is 6ft dog netting with the balance being 4 plain wire and 2 barb in good condition. There are 14 main paddocks and 5 smaller holding paddocks with a 10km laneway. There is approx 25km of new fencing in the last five years. There is a small set of steel yards with the capacity to handle 300 head of cattle complete with walk through cattle crush. There is one set of steel and timber sheep yards that is in good condition. The working area of the sheep race and draft at the woolshed is fully covered. There is water piped to the cattle yards and the sheep yards at the woolshed. |
| Carrying Capacity: | Owner estimates 1500 dry cattle or equilalent in an average season. |
| Plants & Machinery: | Nil |
