ALROY AND EUREKA
The Eureka cottage, quarters and woolshed is located approximately 102 km west of Longreach just off the Silsoe Road and is approximately 120 km from the bitumen Landsborough Highway at Morella. Access for northern livestock transports is available through Winton and Muttaburra via Morella.
Facilities / Services:
There is no rural power connected to Eureka or Alroy. Eureka has telephone service.
Longreach offers prep to secondary schooling, Pastoral College, hospital and medical facilities, rural businesses and personal shopping. Daily air and bus services travel from Longreach to Brisbane. There are the cattle saleyards and rail trucking facilities as well as the airport and government agencies.
Eureka:
8,256.396 Ha or 20,393 acres
L2 M22813 GHPL 29/11208 – Parish: Silsoe
Alroy:
8,245.8746 Ha or 20,367 acres
L3 M22813 GHPL 0/214900 – Parish: Silsoe
Rates: Approx $3,960 Per Half Yearly Rent: Approx $2,687 Quarterly
Local Authority: Longreach Regional Council
Alroy and Eureka have an excellent mix of country with attractive open pebbly downs, lightly timbered with Whitewood, Boree, Vinetree and Bauhinia blending into well shaded pebbly gidgee and false Sandalwood country with areas of Gidgee scrub and stony outcrops.
The soil types range from heavily grassed grey and brown cracking clays to lighter grassed, quick responding pebbly ridges. This lighter country will carry a good cover of edible summer or winter herbages when in season.
The grasses are predominately Mitchell and Flinders grass with a spread of Buffel grass along many of the Coolibah creek systems. Eureka has approximately 1400ha of thick gidgee type country and approximately 720ha of stony outcrops and broken gidgee country. Alroy has approximately 460ha of thicker gidgee type country and approximately 490ha of stony outcrops and broken gidgee country.
Vendor will include if required 150 PTIC cows and 100 weaners at market value.
Vendor will include basic equipment ie: body truck, hi lux, tractor, bike and generator.
Asking price:
$55.00 per acre.
Eureka can be sold separately as one lot or combined and sold with Alroy as a whole. Alroy can only be sold separately if the purchaser owns a property in close proximity.
Alroy and Eurkea has an excellent mixture of pebbly undulating country, is lightly timbered with Whitewood, Boree, Vinetree and Bauhinia running back into lighter gidgee stony outcrops. The country is well grassed following recent summer rains. Both Alroy and Eureka are very low maintenance and cost effective to run. Alroy and Eureka are approved for the Longreach Shire Council exclusion fencing.