Summary:

• Historic working ranch, continuous operation since 1869
• 63,000+/- acres deeded land
• 350,000+/- acres of land including grazing leases and deeded land
• 5,800+/- acres with water rights
• Excellent improvements including airport
• In full view of Steens mountain
• Complete privacy, only one neighbor within 15 miles
• South Eastern Oregon high desert

Acreage:

• Total deeded land 63,000+/- acres
• Total acreage with water rights 5,800 +/- acres
• Total acreage of gazing permits 285,000+/- acres

Improvements:

• Main ranch house 2,458 square ft
• Foreman’s house 1,322 square ft
• 3 additional homes for labor housing
• Guest house and office, knotty pine and rock
• Barn 42′ by 100′ rock construction and 32′ by 100′ frame construction, excellent condition
• machine shop 40′ by 120′ metal
• cook house
• 9 room bunkhouse
• 1880’s blacksmith shop
• 3 sets of corrals
• 50,000 lb livestock scales
• rock cow camp cabin
• additional buildings normal for this size of operation
• 70+ miles of fence on deeded land
• 35+/- miles of gravel road, 100+ miles of secondary road

The improvements are in good condition and adequate for an operation of this size. Fence and building maintenance is current. Some farming and irrigation work may need to be done depending on the type of operation desired.

Water Rights:

5,790 acres of land with a primary water right

1,997 acres of land with a secondary ground water right

Primary 1883 rights certificate numbers:
64224
64222
64221

Supplemental rights certificate numbers:
64223
64225
64226
64227
64228

The Whitehorse Ranch holds the only irrigation water rights on Whitehorse and Willow creeks. The water is placed in both concrete and dirt ditches to flood or sub-irrigate both alfalfa and wild hay. Even during drought years the ranch can produce a hay crop and provide late summer and fall feed.

Grazing Permits:

There are two Bureau of Land Management gazing permits that belong to the ranch. The Whitehorse Butte Allotment (1206) which consist of 10 pastures and is used from March 16 to September 31, and the Coyote Lake Allotment (10804) which is in two pastures and used from October 1 to January 31. The summer permit has 22,000+ acres of crested wheat grass pasture on the lower elevation and has an 8,000 foot elevation at the top. There is a small portion of private land in the summer permit and a large portion in the winter permit which provide exchange of use AUMs. The break-down of the AUMs is as follows:

• Whitehorse Butte
  1,670 Cattle 3/16 to 8/31 9,279 AUMs
• Exchange of use
  68 Cattle 3/16 to 8/31 378 AUMs
• Total summer use
  1,738 Cattle 9,657 AUMs
• Coyote Lake
  745 Cattle 10/01 to 1/31 3,013 AUMs
• Exchange of use
  493 Cattle 10/01 to 1/31 1,945 AUMs
• Total winter use
  1,238 Cattle 4,958 AUMs