LOCATION:
The Durfee Canyon Ranch is located 22 miles southwest of Magdalena in the San Mateo Mountains. It is adjacent to the Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories and was featured in the 1997 movie Contact.

Access is by county road off of state highway 60. Magdalena is the school seat and has grocery shopping and hardware supplies. Socorro, about 45 minutes from the ranch is a larger town and is the location of the New Mexico Mining and Technology, the state's premier scientific university. More extensive shopping and supplies are available there. The ranch is a two hour drive from Albuquerque and about two and one half hours from Las Cruces.

Magdalena has a small craft airport and Socorro has a paved 5,800 foot runway for larger aircraft.

SIZE AND LAND TENURE:
The ranch includes 690 acres deeded with a 145 head year round grazing allotment on the Cibola National Forest. The headquarters' parcel consists of 360 acres with the home and main cattle working facilities. Five other deeded tracts are scattered within the Forest Service and control the water sources for the grazing allotment. In all, the ranch encompasses over 30,000 acres and is divided into five pastures. Small fenced traps are in strategic locations to help manage the cattle operation.

GEOGRAPHY:
Elevation ranges from 7,500 feet at the headquarters to 8,800 feet in the summer pastures. The northern portion of the ranch is open rolling country with some pinon and juniper cover. The higher mountains have Ponderosa Pines. This is a very scenic ranch with 10,120 foot Mt. Withington on the sky line to the south.

WILDLIFE:
The ranch has several game species including Rocky Mountain Elk, Mule Deer, Pronghorn Antelope, Black Bear, Mountain Lion and Bobcats. The owner receives one bull elk landowner tag from the New Mexico Game and Fish Department annually.

IMPROVEMENTS:
The ranch house is a very nice 2,500 square foot modular home with a sunroom. A Pro-panel roof covers the house and extends over the ten foot redwood deck on three sides of the house. This provides a very nice covered porch on three sides of the home. The deck is uncovered on the south side to allow for passive solar heating in the sunroom. The interior has tile and carpeted flooring. It contains a master suite, three other bedrooms and two and ½ baths.

The original ranch home has been partially restored and provides a rustic appeal to the corrals and storage buildings. The shipping pens are located south of the home and contain a tub alleyway into the chutes. Double overhead cake bins are included.

WATER:
Water for the headquarters and lower pastures is supplied by a well in the Bolander pasture through a pipeline. Two other wells, springs and dirt tanks provide water in other pastures. The ranch has approximately 120,000 gallons of water supply storage on the various pipelines.

LIVESTOCK:
The Forest Service allotment is rated for 145 head year round.

UTILITIES:
Power for the headquarters is furnished by a solar system with a back up Kohler generator. Electrical power lines are located less than 4 miles from the house. Telephone service is on the ranch and a local propane company delivers to the property.

COMMENTS: This is great opportunity for a part time rancher. The ranch is inexpensive to operate and not too far from the Albuquerque metro area. With five private land inholdings in the Cibola National Forest, the opportunity exists to sell some of the deeded land and not hurt the carrying capacity or operability of the ranch.

PRICE:
$1,500,000.00