CHELSEA
GARAH

Situation: 2 kms East of Garah village, 55km North of Moree via Canarvan Highway.

Area: 1,532.57 hectares (3,785 Acres) freehold

Services: Garah is serviced by a large grain handling facility, primary school, general store, fuel depot and hotel. Moree features a wide range of facilities including grain handling, cotton gins, weekly cattle sales, primary and secondary schools, agricultural supplies and recreational and sporting activities.

Country: Flat open black soil plains with Gil Gil Creek forming the southern and western boundaries of the property. Soils range from grey self cracking clays along the creek to black self mulching type typical of western plains country. Natural timber consists of coolibah, myall, whitewood, belah and box plus several planted shade lines through the property.

Land Use: Arable Country 1,144.3 Ha
Includes 2011 cropping programme 634.8 Ha
Grazing and support land 433 Ha

Water: A feature of Chelsea. Cap and piped bore water from Kiga / Careunga Trust to 10 x 22,500 litre tanks with troughs through the property, water holes along Gil Gil Creek, H/S supply 2 large dams fed by the creek plus 160,000 litres rain water.

Rainfall: 550 mm annual average.

Farming: Subdivided into 16 main paddocks all good stock proof condition, mostly 2 barbs and 4 plain.

Improvements: Fully restored federation homestead built in the early 1900s approximately 450m2, 4 bedrooms, kitchen, breakfast room, lounge, dining, sewing room, office, 2 bathrooms with attached 4 bay carport, laundry and storage room all set in attractive landscaped gardens.

Other Accommodation: 2 bedroom weather-board cottage with garage and store rooms.

Sheds: 80 x 50 steel machinery shed, concrete floor with raised 4 stand shearing board, timber and galvanised iron 2 bay garage and storage rooms.

Yards: Steel sheep yards at shed. Steel cattle yards, hold 600 head, drafting pound curved race undercover crush and loading ramp.

Grain Handling: 4 x 75 tonne silos, 2 x 60 tonne, 1 x 50 tonne, 3 x 17 tonne, 300 tonne grain shed, concrete floor

Remarks: Chelsea presents a good example of a versatile property being offered for sale in a highly commended location with access to local grain handling facilities just 2 kms away. Chelsea is at present being used as fattening and back-grounding enterprise but could just as easily be turned to grain cropping as the main income. With 75% of the property available for cultivation.