Property Profile:
This cattle and hunting ranch lies about 15 miles northeast of Van Horn on a paved road. This is valley overflow land has about 5 miles of Wildhorse Draw meandering through the ranch. This can create an oasis of water and highly productive grassland for wildlife and livestock. The ranch is covered in native brush. The soils range from clay loam to sandy loam. There are 4 water wells. These are equipped with two solar powered submersible pumps, one windmill and one 3 hp submersible pump in an irrigation well, 5 large storage reservoirs, and 15 miles of pipe to 20 water troughs around the ranch. Irrigation water is from 175' to 300' deep and irrigation wells on neighbors in the immediate area tested 2,500 to 4,000 gpm of excellent water. There are both mineral classified land and fee minerals, all unleased. Improvements include perimeter fencing, cross fencing, a comfortable 1,913 sq ft.3Br2B foreman's home, 50’ X 50’ barn and two sets of working corrals. Wildlife includes mule deer, antelope, quail and dove. Mule deer bucks scoring 189 B&C in 2008 and 220 B&C in 2009 were taken on the ranch. The 2008 buck won third place Texas Non-Typical Mule Deer. With the minerals offered, underground water and excellent pasture for both livestock and wildlife, this ranch has great potential.
Terrain:
The ranch lies in a wide valley known as Wild Horse Valley in between the
towering Beach Mountains and Baylor Mountains on the west and the Apache Mountains to the east. The ranch is traversed by the meandering Wild Horse Draw for about 5 miles draining south to north.
Location:
This ranch lies about 15 miles north east of Van Horn with about 2.25 miles of frontage on the north side of Texas F.M. 2185. There is also access by gravel County Road 134 to the west part of the ranch via F.M. 2809. From Van Horn, El Paso is about 119 miles to the northwest on I-10 and Odessa is about 164 miles to the northeast on I-20. The ranch is about 10 miles northeast of the Culberson County Airport.
Closest City:
Van Horn
Trees:
The ranch is covered with brush ranging from waist high to 12 feet in
the lower areas. The brush includes mesquite.
Cover:
The brush includes mesquite, huisache, fourwing saltbrush, greasewood, catclaw, skunkbrush, senisa, lotebush, whitebrush,
tar brush, retama, and agarito. The cacti consists of Spanish dagger, ococtillo, prickly pear, yucca, tasajillo, choya cactus and prickly pear.
Wildlife:
With all of the overflow land, the lower areas of the ranch are a great habitat for mule deer and pronghorn antelope. The playa lakes attract ducks, geese, sandhill cranes, dove and other water birds. There are mostly blue quail with a few Gamble’s quail. Additionally there are bobcats, coyote, raccoons, fox, coyote and an occasional mountain lion.
Hunting:
The ranch has been hunted in recent years. The third place Texas Non-Typical Mule Deer which
scored 189 Boone and Crockett was killed on the ranch in 2008. Another trophy Mule Deer grossing 220 B &C was killed on the ranch in 2009. There have been only 3 bucks taken in the last three years. Two are mentioned above and one more cull buck taken in 2008. The ranch has been feeding
protein to the deer year-round. This probably averages about 1,000 pounds per month; however, the deer consume much of the protein feed in the winter months than in the summer months when they visit the neighbor’s alfalfa and chili pepper fields.
Utilities:
Power is to the headquarters supplied by Rio Grande Electric
Co-operative. Telephone is serviced by Windstream Telephone Co. The
ranch house has a propane tank and septic tank.
Fencing:
The ranch is perimeter fenced and cross-fenced into nine pastures and traps which appear to be in good to average condition.
Water:
There are 4 water wells, 3 which are with smaller casings averaging 200-300 feet deep. The fourth well located west of the headquarters is a 16” irrigation
well thought to be 477 feet deep. The two wells north of the headquarters are equipped with solar powered submersible pumps and the well located in the
northwest part is equipped with a windmill. Each of these three have 30,000 gallon storage tanks. West of the headquarters, the larger well is equipped with a high capacity 3 HP submersible pump and a 50,000 gallon storage tank.
From the well located west of the headquarters water is pumped to the headquarters and to the two storage tanks to the north as back-up water for the solar pumps.
Improvements:
The foreman's home is constructed of plastered burnt adobe brick with about 1,913 sq. ft. which includes 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, kitchen living-dining room, fireplace, 198 sq.ft. covered porch and a 2 car carport. There is a 50’ X 50’ metal storage barn with a 48’X8.5’ tack room, a 3 compartment range cube overhead storage bin and two sets of working corrals. Ranch roads in good condition give access to most parts of the ranch.
Minerals:
According to a title search on minerals completed in 2005, there are 9,789.8 acres of mineral classified lands under this ranch. Mineral Classified Lands are lands under which the mineral estate is owned by the state of Texas. The surface owner acts as agent for the state and has the right to
negotiate a mineral lease, receives one-half of the lease bonus, one-half of the delay rental and one-half of the royalty to be produced from the land. In
addition to the mineral classified land, a 2005 title opinion shows the owner to own 100% of the minerals under 1,561 acres. All minerals owned by the seller will be conveyed to a new buyer. The property is not leased for oil and
gas exploration.
Grasses:
Grasses include blue grama, black grama, sideoats grama, hairy grama, tabossa grass, curly mesquite, plains bristle grass, chino grama, cottontop, green sprangletop, vine mesquite, burro grass, cane bluestem, buffalo grass
and alkali sacaton. Forbs include, tallow weed, filarie, loco weed, dalea, skeletonleaf golden eye, and broomweed.
Easements:
There are flood control easements given to Culberson County to build
and maintain the levee for flood water control and utility company easements.
Taxes:
The assessed value for tax purposes is based on agricultural value of $12.84 per acre. The 2009 ad valorem taxes totaled about $7,956.42, or $.336
per acre. The ranch lies in the Culberson County-Allamoore Independent School District.
Soil:
For the most part the soils are mostly Monahans fine sandy loam, Wink loamy fine sand undulating), Redona clay loam and Verhalen silty clay with some Bissett very gravelly loam (1 to 8 percent slopes) in a relatively small area along the western boundary in the foothills of the Beach and Baylor Mountains and in the northeast corner.
Financing/Terms:
cash to seller
Special Note:
SHOWN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.
Price:
$6,969,758
Price Per acre:
$295
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Property Presented By:
Childress Ranch Investments
Frank Childress - Broker
Office: 830-964-4600
Home: 830-964-2497
Cell: 210-872-7788
14812 S Access Rd
Canyon Lake, Texas, 78133
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