History of Dumaresq Bros. Ranch

In the spring of 1902 Bud Wilkinson, a cattleman from Roswell, New Mexico, travelled to Medicine Hat in search of a new range for his cattle. There he employed the assistance of Bill Greathouse, a local ranch hand. The two men, with the services of an Indian guide, headed north across the prairie and within a week found themselves in the Neutral Hills. Climbing to the summit of a high hill they first viewed Sounding Lake and a vast plain of grassland reportably waist high on a man. Their guide assured the men that further on was timber and a good spring of running water. Ascending a small rise Bud Wilkinson found his quest, a small spring-fed creek, timber for building, an abundance of prairie wool in the Neutral Hills for pasture and great meadows of grass for hay.

Returning to New Mexico Bud Wilkinson and his partner and brother-in-law, Tom McCord, began the task of gathering their cattle which were spread across the south west corner of Texas and into New Mexico. This roundup was completed in the fall of 1902. In the spring of 1903 a crew of sixteen men began a journey to move 3680 head of cattle, 200 cow horses, work horses and supplies and equipment to Canyon City, Texas where they were loaded on trains, eight in all. Their destination was Billings, Montana which took two weeks. From Billings the cattle were driven to the location Bud Wilkinson had chosen the previous year as an ideal location for a ranch that could meet all his requirements. This is the present location of the Dumaresq Bros. Ranch.

The Wilkinson-McCord Ranch cattle herd grew for the next three years until the winter of 1906-07 when an extremely harsh winter killed thousands. They were left with barely 1000 head. It was decided that Bud Wilkinson and family would return leaving Tom McCord to run the ranch alone. Over the next several years much of the open range the ranch had been using was being fenced and taken over by homesteaders and squatters. The McCord ranch wound up its operation in 1911 and sold the home deeded quarter to William Poynter and sons. The ranch remained in the Poynter family until 1965 when it was sold to Frank Gatty and then to Ron Dumaresq in 1966. This portion of the Dumaresq Ranch is a very important key to the present operation as the water from the springs which attracted Bud Wilkinson so many years ago supplies the feedlot, pipeline water to distant pastures and water for five homes at the home ranch site.

In 1912, Bill Mather and family (daughter Lilly married Perrie Dumaresq) took a homestead at the present home ranch site of Ron Dumaresq. Perrie Dumaresq moved to the Handhills in 1928 to work on the neighbouring Cross Bar Ranch. In 1947, Perrie and Lilly Dumaresq returned to the Neutral Hills and purchased the Mather ranch from Lilly’s family with their sons Charles, Dennis and Ronald. Thus began the Dumaresq Ranching Co. In 1968, Ron and Dennis formed the Dumaresq Bros. Ranch Ltd. when Perrie retired. Ron, his wife Sonya and their family became sole owners of the ranch in1985.

Category: cow /calf & yearling
Grows own feed: yes
Capacity: 1500 cows
Currently: Maintains 450 cows, grazes 2000 yearling and backgrounds 3000 yearlings
Raise all their own feed and historically have 1 year in advance.

Deeded Acres: 9,872
Native: 5,502
Cultivated: 2,170
Tame Hay & Pasture:2,100
Building Sites: 40

Lease Acres: 4,623 all in Special Area’s # 4
AUM’s - 1152
Term - 20 yr

Total Acres: 14,495 +/-

Taxes: $14,255.49

Surface revenue: $306,000 annual contract (2008)

Precipitation 30 yr Average: 15.5 in +/-

Developed water: 2 spring-fed wells on SE 11-37-5-4

Natural water sources: 3 flowing spring fed creeks, 6 flowing springs

Nearest Town: Consort

County: Special Area # 4, M.D. Provost

Improvements:

House # 1:
Style: hillside bungalow c/w walkout basement
Size: 3480 sq ft on each level
Age: 2007
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3 ½
Basement: fully finished with walkout
Garage: triple car attached

House #2:
Style: bungalow
Size: 2200 sq ft
Age: 1981
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3
Basement: undeveloped
Garage: double attached
Swimming pool

House #3:
Style: raised bungalow
Size: 1,200 sq ft
Age: 1968
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2 ½
Basement: partial developed c/w walkout

House #4
Style: bungalow
Size: 1600 sq ft.
Age: 1974
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2 ½
Basement: partial developed
Garage: double attached

House #5
Style: bungalow
Size: 1100 sq ft
Age: remodeled in 1969
Bedrooms: 2
Bathrooms: 1 ½
Basement: partial basement
Garage: 2 car detached
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Shops:
Size: 50’ x 60’ c/w 16’ walls Size: 60’ x 80’ c/w 16’ walls
Const: framed, insulated, heated Const: framed, insulated, heated
Age: 1994 Age: 1999
Floor drain, florescent lighting Floor drain, florescent lighting
220V wiring 220V wiring

Backgrounding Feedlot:
Capacity: 3000 yearlings plus 500 cows

Bunk space: approx. 1 ft + per head

Pens: 16 for yearlings plus large feeding pen for cows which bed in 80 ac
pasture. Mostly all steel. There are 6 sick pens. All but 6 yearling pens
have direct access to the sick pens. Those 6 access the sick pens through
the feed alley..

Handling system: Tub, S alley, palpation cage, hyd. squeeze located indoors,
Steel sorting and holding pens c/w water, cattle can be run across scale.

Certified scale: 16’ x 30’ certified annually, used for cattle, feed wagons, trucks.

Silage pits: 2 – 68’ x 200’ cement c/w cement floors.
1 – 100’ x 100’ cement L c/w dirt floor
2 – dirt pits (5500 +/- tons of silage comes with the ranch)

Grain storage: 6 – 4500 bu hopper bins
50’ x 100’ canvas building

Water system: Separate for feedlot only. There is one submersible pump
and 2 jet pumps on separate systems which can back each
other up. The submersible pump is in a well that is supplemented
by a 3 in. line coming from a spring-fed reservoir.

Hip Roof Barn: 72’ x 90’ used as loafing barn and houses cattle handling
facilities.

Pastures:
• Water stations in pastures pumped from separate spring-fed well at feedlot with a 3 speed centrifugal pump to the following quarters:
SW 34-36-5-4 SE 33-36-5-4 SW 8-37-5-4
NE 6-37-5-4 SW 11-37-5-4 NW 10-37-5-4
• Water pumped from dugout to water station on SE 25-36-5-4, power service to dugout location.
• 3 flowing creeks
• Fencing is all 4 wire except ½ mile of 3 wire.

Home Ranch 10,578 Ac

Czar Pasture 1,692 Ac

South Consort Pasture 1762 Ac

LAND BASE DEEDED:

Sec 4 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 598.26 ac +/-
Sec 8 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 640 ac +/-
Sec 3 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 637 ac +/-
W ½ 6 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 320 ac +/-
W ½ & SE 2 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 478 ac +/-
N ½ 10 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 314.37 ac +/-
S ½ 11 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 320 ac +/-
SW 12 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 160 ac +/-
Sec 33 – 36 – 5 – 4 containing 624.82 +/-
Sec 34 – 36 – 5 – 4 containing 603.18 ac +/-
NW 35 – 36 – 5 – 4 containing 159 ac +/-
W ½ 26 – 36 – 5 – 4 containing 313.75 ac +/-
S ½ 25 – 36 – 5 – 4 containing 311.02 ac +/-
Sec 24 - 34 – 36 – 5 – 4 containing 638 ac +/-
NE 13 – 36 – 5 – 4 containing 159 ac +/-
N ½ 28 – 36 – 5 – 4 containing 318.62 ac +/-
Sec 30 – 32 – 6 – 4 containing 640 ac +/-
N ½ 24 – 32 – 7 – 4 containing 320 ac +/-
SE 25 – 32 – 7 – 4 containing 160 ac +/-
N ½ & SW 34 – 38 – 4 – 4 containing 464.51 ac +/-
Sec 26 – 41 – 6 – 4 containing 621.2 ac +/-
Sec 25 – 41 – 6 – 4 containing 599.44 ac +/-
W ½ 23 – 41 – 6 – 4 containing 311.6 ac +/-
NW 30 – 41 – 5 – 4 containing 160 ac +/-

LAND BASE LEASE:
Sec 5 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 630 ac +/-
E ½ 6 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 320 ac +/-
E ½ 7 & SW 7 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 480 ac +/-
S ½ 10 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 320 ac +/-
N ½ 11 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 320 ac +/-
N ½ & SE 12 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 478.37 ac +/-
NE 2 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 160 ac +/-
N ½ 1 – 37 – 5 – 4 containing 320 ac +/-
NW 13 – 36 – 5 – 4 containing 160 ac +/-
E ½ 26 – 36 – 5 – 4 containing 316 ac +/-
S ½ & NE 35 – 36 – 5 – 4 containing 479 ac +/-
Sec 19 – 32 – 6 – 4 containing 640 ac +/-

Home Ranch Land Base 10,578 ac – 6,596 ac deeded, 3,983 ac grazing lease
South Consort Summer Pasture 1,760 ac – 1,120 ac deeded, 640 ac grazing lease
Czar Summer Pasture 1,692.24 ac – all deeded
Cadogan Cultivated Farm Land 464.51 ac – all deeded

Note!
• Home ranch can be purchased separately from satellite holdings.
• An agreement is in place for 1 test windmill which has yet to be placed; contract expires in 2012.
• An agreement is in place for a pipeline to enter the NE 7, SW 7, E ½ 6 and NW 6 all in 37-5-4 for total easement of 14.64 acres.
• Vendor to retain all surface lease income received prior to acceptance of an offer.
• Vendor would sell ranch corporation with assets listed above at a reduced price.

ASKING PRICE: $13,100,000. all land holdings ($8,733/cow)
$11,100,000. home ranch only

While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information herein, neither the owner nor the agents assume responsibility for any errors or omissions, which may inadvertently, occur. The listing and description of the various lands, buildings and improvements contained herein has been prepared solely for the convenience of prospective buyers and is not warranted to be complete or accurate, and does not form part of the terms and conditions of a sale.