Dumaresq Bros. Ranch Ltd. CONSORT, ALBERTA in the Neutral Hills

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1 CONSORT, ALBERTA in the Neutral Hills

2 Neutral Hills

3 Ranch History 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 as well as 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 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 a total of eight trains. Their destination was Billings, Montana which took two weeks to reach. 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 cattle herd of the Wilkinson-McCord Ranch grew for the next three years until the winter of when an extremely harsh winter killed thousands of animals. 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 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 three 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 Neutral Hills 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 Sonia and their family became sole owners of the ranch in1985.

4 Dumaresq Bros. Ranch Ltd. 7 V Category: cow /calf & yearling Grows own feed: yes Capacity: 1200 cows Currently: Maintains 450 cows, grazes 2000 yearling and back grounds 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 # 4 AUM s Term - 20 yr Total Acres: 14,495 +/- Taxes: $14, Surface revenue: $400,000 +/- annual contract (2014) Precipitation 30 yr Average: 15.5 in +/- Nearest Town: Consort County: Special Area # 4, M.D. Provost

5 Improvements Dumaresq Bros. Ranch Ltd. House #1: Style: hillside bungalow c/w walkout basement Size: 3480 sq ft 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

6 7 V Shops: Size: 50 x 60 c/w 16 walls Const: framed, insulated, heated Age: 1994 Floor drain, fluorescent lighting 220V wiring Size: 60 x 80 c/w 16 walls Const: framed, insulated, heated Age: 1999 Floor drain, fluorescent lighting 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 x 100 cement L c/w dirt floor 2 dirt pits (5500 +/- tons of silage comes with the ranch)

7 Grain storage: 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 pasture pumped from separate springfed well at feedlot with a 3 speed centrifugal pump to the following quarters: SW SE SW NE SW NW Water pumped from dugout to water station on SE , power service to dugout location. 3 flowing creeks Fencing is all 4 wire except ½ mile of 3 wire.

8 Land Base Deeded: SECTION CONTAINING Sec ac +/- Sec ac +/- Sec ac +/- W ½ ac +/- W ½ & SE ac +/- N ½ ac +/- S ½ ac +/- SW ac +/- Sec /- Sec ac +/- NW ac +/- W ½ ac +/- S ½ ac +/- Sec ac +/- NE ac +/- N ½ ac +/- Sec ac +/- N ½ ac +/- SE ac +/- N ½ & SW ac +/- Sec ac +/- Sec ac +/- W ½ ac +/- NW 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 Land Base Lease: SECTION CONTAINING Sec ac +/- E ½ ac +/- E ½ 7 & SW ac +/- S ½ ac +/- N ½ ac +/- N ½ & SE ac +/- NE ac +/- N ½ ac +/- NW ac +/- E ½ ac +/- S ½ & NE ac +/- Sec ac +/- Czar Summer Pasture 1, ac all deeded Cadogan Cultivated Farm Land ac all deeded

9 Asking Price: $13,100,000. all land holdings ($8,733/cow) $11,100,000. home ranch only Note! Home ranch can be purchased separately from satellite holdings. An agreement is in place for a pipeline to enter the NE 7, SW 7, E ½ 6 and NW 6 all in for total easement of 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. 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.

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12 Maps Czar Pasture South Pasture Home Ranch Contact Greg Cripps Re/Max Real Estate Central AB Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 3W6 Cell Bus Res Fax: For additional photos visit my web photo gallery Website: canadiancattleranches.com Brochure Design by CREATIVE GROUP deepbluecreativegroup.com