Description
Lodge: This remarkable ranch has an equally impressive headquarters. The hunter’s lodge is 10,000 square feet and consists of 10 fully furnished bedrooms and 10 ½ bathrooms. For entertaining, there are 2 huge common rooms with flagstone floors and high timber-framed ceilings, and they are fully furnished with leather furniture, African game mounts, big screen TV, card tables, pool tables, juke box, 2 full bars, and 3 stone fireplaces. There are 2 laundry rooms, one located on each floor. There’s also an exercise room with an indoor hot tub and sauna. The house has 8 stone fireplaces and individual A/C/Heat in each bedroom. Outside, there’s a magnificent porch overlooking Sloan Springs Canyon, complete with a swimming pool, hot tub, and skeet range.
Other improvements located at the ranch headquarters include several barns, including a party barn used for dancing and entertainment complete with a commercial kitchen and wrap-around windows overlooking Sloan Springs Canyon. There’s also a cleaning and storing facility for game complete with walk-in cooler and cleaning racks, dog kennels, horse stalls, fuel tanks, and 3 nice trailer homes. Included in the sale are 2 fire trucks and some hunting vehicles. Other ranching equipment may also be available for purchase.
• Beautiful 10,000 Sq Ft Lodge
• Other First-Class Improvements
• 20 Lakes, Great Bass Fishing
• Live Springs & Live Creeks
• All Minerals Owned Convey
• Duck, Quail, Dove, & Turkey
• Whitetail & Mule Deer
• Hwy 70 Frtg, 200 Miles from Ft. Worth
Topography
This unique ranch has a good balance of high country with beautiful bluffs and plateaus, and bottomlands with productive creek bottoms and mesquite flats. Sloan Springs Canyon is located on the ranch, as well as several creek systems, giving the ranch many drainages and water sheds for creating potential lake sites. There is good cover all over the ranch, consisting mainly of cedar, mesquite, and native grasses. The ranch has a carrying capacity of about 400 cattle. There are 4 large wheat fields on the property, one of them about 150 acres in size, which attract all kinds of game.
Minerals
The owner will convey all minerals owned. An exact amount will be determined at closing. There is one producing oil well on the ranch.
Wildlife
The hunting diversity on this ranch is wonderful! There are whitetail deer, mule deer, hogs, turkey, quail, dove, and ducks. Coyotes, bobcats, and mountain lions can also be found. The great cover and topography on this ranch provide whitetail and mule deer with excellent habitat, so that hunters can usually see large numbers when they sit in a blind. Trophy whitetail and mule deer have been harvested here. Also, for the waterfowl hunter, there’s a fantastic variety of duck species including: widgeon, mallards, pintail, gadwall, and teal. With the tanks, wheat fields, creeks, and roosting timber that this ranch has to offer, it also sustains a large number of wild turkey. Great dove hunting can be had at any of the tanks or wheat fields. Fishing is available in 4 of the larger lakes, with species including hybrid black bass, small mouth bass, channel catfish, crappie, and bluegill.
Water
For a part of Texas with not much annual rainfall (24 inches), there is an unusual amount of surface water on this ranch, with approximately 20 nice-sized tanks, some of them as big as 3-4 acres. Four of the bigger lakes have good bass fishing. There’s also several live springs on the ranch, including Sloan Springs. The owner has had plans to build a dam in Sloan Springs Canyon for several years and create a huge spring-fed lake. There are several live spring-fed creek systems that traverse the ranch, many with low-water crossings. The ranch is supplied with city water from Crowell that is pumped into 2 large storage tanks. One of the tanks supplies the ranch headquarters, and the other is piped to water troughs throughout the ranch for the cattle.
Access
Property is primarily accessed by Hwy 70, but could also be accessed by FM 2566.