Not my listing.  Wonder if you can shoot off the back porch?





http://www.chron.com/homes/article/Waggoner-Ranch-among-US-largest-listed-for-sale-5681217.php





http://www.waggonerranch.com/





The estate includes the 510,000-acre ranch spread over six North Texas counties, with two main compounds, hundreds of homes, about 20 cowboy camps, hundreds of quarter-horses, thousands of heads of cattle, 1,200 oil wells and 30,000 acres of cultivated land, according to Dallas-based broker Bernie Uechtritz, who is handling the sale along with broker Sam Middleton of Lubbock.





The estate falls within a "super asset class," akin to selling the "Statue of Liberty" of cowboy culture. The Waggoner Ranch is the largest contiguous ranch in the United States.







 

For the low, low price of $725M

No problem. My monthly payments would be $3,427,907. Will you take a check

Damn, we are just trying to sell 400 ac.

If you had to ask...................



 

Bet that would be a bitch to push mow!

With all the improvements, interests etc it sounds more like a business sale than a land sale haha.

$1400/acre isn't that bad

Anyone got an extra $bill they can give me? I promise to invite you to my Independence Day party.

What . . . exactly . . . would you like to know about the Waggoner?

I'm pretty familiar with it.      

dp

Can I buy it now and defer payments until after I'm dead???

I believe they have already turned down several similar offers . . . mine included . . . .

Local rumor has it that the ranch has already been sold to a buyer out of Wyoming.

It's a fabulous property. So big that, at one time, it actually had its own state Game Warden.

With that many oil wells and that big of cattle & horse business, wouldnt those profits pay for the note? especially if the other 400,000 acres were tapped for oil?

No doubt some wealthy middle easterner will snatch it up.

Vince

 
Who Obama?


 


But seriously, I hope it stays intact, whoever buys it up.

Kinda hoping my church will snatch it up. They own quite a few mega ranches currently.

What could a church have planned for a property of this size?  Serious question.

New ISIS training camp now wouldn't that be a bitch if some rich
Saudi extremist bought it!

Family issues are the worst.  Reading between the lines...  that one appears to be a heck of a family squabble.

Sounds like you'd need a decent-sized corporation just to manage everything.

Big write up lots of pics http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3087774/America-s-biggest-ranch-larger-LONDON-goes-sale-713million-Texas.html

Founded on 1849: Native American Indians on the W.T. Waggoner Estate Ranch

I am seriously thinking about low balling them with an offer for $50,000.00 cash.    They may go for it as it is a forced sell.

Great memories for me.

My father worked for the W.T. Waggoner Estate, in the main headquarters building in downtown Vernon.  As a kid I would walk from school to those marble offices usually on Fridays.  They had computers in the 1970's, mainframes I'm talking about, incredible stuff back then.  Kept track of oil productions, stock, grain harvests, cotton-wheat, quarter horses, etc.  Employees were family, an illness in the family you could most likely get a plane ride to Dallas.  Want a side of beef, head out to the yards, have a cowboy cut out the one you choose and you paid a nominal amount.  Need a vehicle, discounted at dealerships.  We fished on all the lakes, on Kemp we had a lakehouse, Diversion, Electra.  Hunting was verboten, as far as I can remember, and wild game was everywhere.  Things you feared were fires, tornadoes, snakes, grasshoppers, weevils, drought, floods, freezes, lol!  Annual get-togethers, great BBQ's, kids activities, fishing, pitching horseshoes.  The Texas Ranch Roundup Rodeo, where most of the biggest ranches in Texas came to compete each year for braggin rights and charity.  The rodeo parade, wow as a kid that was special, and honestly I remember these events like they were yesterday.  Going to Ft Worth to the Stockyards and rodeo, the best boxes, family treated first class.  Cowboys who had worked 40-50 years, families going back generations, old timers were respected.  Just a ton of history going back to the real Old West, the original ranch had been much closer to Ft Worth, then moved west in later years.

My heroes have always been cowboys, they still are it seems!

Hking

PS edit, and the scale of that map really doesn't show how big that ranch is, one large grain field would take a complete day for a single cottonpicker to circle the outside of the field, as far as the eye could see from as high as you could get.

Group buy?

I am in for $100

Sounds like a really upstanding money making sham..er ...um I mean church, just sayin...

 

Knew this one was on the edge.  It's an important piece of TX though and we call can dream can't we?



 

How would it be a sham?
"We have felt that good farms, over a long period, represent a safe  
investment, where the assets of the church may be preserved and
enhanced,"  Hinckley said, "while at the same time they are available as
an agricultural  resource to feed people, should there come a time of
need."
Most of the land is leased out.  They take good care of the land and keep large tracks intact.
My churches lands are the base for the largest beef production in the world.
No deceit there or sham it's part of the way the church works.  





Some are "for profit" businesses as well.  Others are used for the welfare of the church.  





If you've never been to a bishop's storehouse before it's like a grocery store but for those in need the food is free.  The meat provided is almost all raised on these ranches.





As a youth we were trucked out to help work on these ranches, as an adult I've seen many family helped by the food provided by these ranches, farms, orchards.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/170647/LDS-CHURCH-REAL-ESTATE-HOLDINGS-INCLUDE-FARMS-RANCHES-BUILDINGS.html?pg=all





 

Rifle range?  Think bigger.  How about a tank range?