Location:
92km west of Longreach and 76km from Morella on the Landsborough Highway.

Services:
Rural power, telephone, satellite TV and internet, twice weekly mail service.
Cattle saleyards and rail trucking facilities are located at Longreach
Daily air and bus services from Longreach to Brisbane. Prep to secondary schooling, agricultural college education, medical, sporting and recreational facilities in Longreach.
Marmboo has an 800 metre well maintained airstrip near homestead complex.

Area:
95,276 acres in 6 freehold titles plus approx.2,025 hectares (5,000ac) of stockroute.

Rainfall:
Long term district average for Longreach is 433.5 mm (17.34″). Marmboo rainfall records for the past 14 years averaged 381.7mm (15.26″). Rainfall to date this year has varied from 175mm on the eastern side dropping back to 100mm through the southern and central western sides.

Country:
Excellent mix of country with attractive open pebbly downs, lightly timbered with Whitewood, Boree, Vinetree and Bauhinia blending into wellshaded pebbly Gidgee and False Sandalwood country with areas of Gidgee scrub and stony outcrops. Soil types from heavily grassed grey and brown cracking clays to lighter grassed quick responding pebbly ridges. Lighter country will carry a good cover of edible summer or winter herbages when in season. Grasses are predominantly Mitchell and Flinders with a spread of Buffel the Coolibah Creek systems.

Waters:
Very well watered with 4 sub artesian bores all re-cased since 1976, two equipped with Mono pumps. 15 dams with very good by-washes, most equipped with mills, tanks and troughs. A telemetry water monitoring system covers key watering points.

Yards and Fencing:
24 main paddocks plus numerous holding paddocks. Extensive laneway system linking most areas to the shearing shed and cattle yards. Most fences are in good well maintained condition with a new section of boundary fence completed recently. There are 4 sets of steel sheep yards including the main shearing shed yards. Cattle yards to work 200 head are a mixture of portable panels and fixed panels including the loading ramp.

Carrying Capacity:
Estimated carrying capacity is 18,000 DSE or cattle equivalent. Marmboo was running 18,000 sheep and 500 cattle in January 2013 reduced to 8,000 sheep and 260 cows during the that year. All stock are available to purchaser at valuation.

Homestead Buildings:
Very well maintained 4 bedroom main homestead with 2 bathrooms, sitting room with fireplace, large kitchen with store room, office and verandah set in well shaded garden.
3 bedroom manager’s cottage has large living room, new kitchen installed in 2011, office, telephone and mobile phone aerial.
The older style 5 bedroom homestead has 3 bathrooms, large sitting room with fireplace, cold-room, two verandahs and its own phone line.
All houses have air-con and satellite TV and NBN satellite internet with Wi-Fi installed. Other buildings include school room/governess quarters, jackeroo’s quarters, cooks quarters, meat house and old school room.

Sheds and Outbuildings:
* Shearers quarters – 6 twin share rooms and a single cooks room, kitchen, dining and a breezeway with verandah. Separate block has 2 toilets, 3 showers, wash tubs, hand basins and electric hot water system.
* Very well maintained, good condition 6 stand shearing shed connected to rural power and has cover for up to 1000 head of sheep.
* Hay shed – 7.5m x 17.5 m x 3.4 m high with 4 open and 1 enclosed bay
* 24,400 litre molasses tank on stand
* large fully enclosed machinery shed, sliding doors, vehicle parking area, storage area, hangar and a cemented workshop
* 4 bay open vehicle shed and numerous other sheds including motor bike, saddle and fuel/oil storage shed
* Chemical/auxiliary power shed with large generator that will power the 3 homesteads at times of electricity outage.

Plant and Equipment:
A full list of plant, equipment and materials included in the sale, is available upon request.

Agents Remarks:
Marmboo is a very well improved, functioning property with an excellent mix of country that will run either a sheep or a cattle enterprise or a combination of both. There has been a good start to the season over a large area of the property and is lightly stocked giving immediate access for livestock to several paddocks. Rarely do you get the opportunity to purchase a large freehold property with very well maintained waters, structural improvements and pastures. Marmboo has been in the one family ownership for 68 years, and is set up, ready to go with little expenditure required by the purchaser.

AGENTS IN CONJUNCTION:
Ruralco Property GDL Real Estate
Andrew McCallum 0427 581 889

Brodie Agencies
Tom Brodie 0428 712 095

The details above are those supplied by the vendor and prospective purchasers should satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to the accuracy of these details.