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RKP5637

(67,112 posts) Wed Jul 22, 2015, 07:57 PM Jul 2015

For $725 Million, You Can Buy a Texas Ranch That's the Size of a Small Nation [View all]

Maybe Ted Cruz can buy this, have his own country, and leave the rest of us the F alone. Maybe the Koch brothers can give it to him as a gift!

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-famous-texas-waggoner-ranch-for-sale/?cmpid=yhoo

Largest ranch in the U.S. within a single fence. Texas fixer-upper with more than 1,000 oil wells; 6,800 head of cattle; 500 quarter horses; 30,000 acres of cropland; tombstones for legendary cowboys, long-dead dogs, and a horse buried standing up. Favorite of Will Rogers and Teddy Roosevelt. Colorful history of drinking and divorce. Fifteen-minute drive to rib-eyes at the Rusty Spur in Vernon. Ideal for Saudi oil sheiks, billionaire hedge funders, and dot-commers who can tell a cow from a steer. Profitable. Zero debt. Property taxes only $800,000 a year. Price: $725 million.

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For $725 Million, You Can Buy a Texas Ranch That's the Size of a Small Nation [View all] RKP5637 Jul 2015 OP

800 square miles! If was square, that is 28 miles on each side, a half hour drive Liberal_in_LA Jul 2015 #1

That's an awful lot of grass to cut! RKP5637 Jul 2015 #3

I'm not sure if its big enough Travis_0004 Jul 2015 #2

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook stock Snobblevitch Jul 2015 #4

Why on dog's green earth hifiguy Jul 2015 #5

If I had that kind of money Texas is the last place in the universe I would want to be. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2015 #6

No shit. hifiguy Jul 2015 #7

Not to mention the area is really sucky Horse with no Name Jul 2015 #13

that is a ridiculously low tax rate dsc Jul 2015 #8

I call it "Petoria". Initech Jul 2015 #9

Yep! RKP5637 Jul 2015 #10

If I had $725 million the last place I'd spend it is Texas. Vinca Jul 2015 #11

The property I grew up on was originally part of the Waggoner Ranch before they downsized it Horse with no Name Jul 2015 #12

interesting! Sometimes in my travels I've come across old gates, grand entrances all grown over RKP5637 Jul 2015 #19

If you ever have been to that area of Texas... Javaman Jul 2015 #14

Great for making old TV westerns. RKP5637 Jul 2015 #16

You know, if I had the money to spare, the Ol' Triple Reverse-D would be nice... Octafish Jul 2015 #15

Thanks for the link, interesting and cool pictures! RKP5637 Jul 2015 #17

If it weren't for those pesky property taxes of $800,000 a year DFW Jul 2015 #18