Goodwater Ranch Description

The tenure of Goodwater Ranch is in a long narrow strip of rangeland being between two and four miles wide (north to south) and twelve miles long (east to west) with Arizona State and BLM lands being mixed with large areas of open range for use as adverse grazing. These are private lands owned by numerous different landowners, some with scattered houses on the property. The range is considered open range or adverse grazing as the properties are available for grazing use while not fenced. The northern boundary of the ranch is I-40 and the south boundary is the Santa Fe Railroad. The dominating topographic feature is the Puerco River lying adjacent to the railroad. The ranch is mainly rolling grassy hills with wide sweeping draws falling southward to the river bottom. Elevation ranges from 5,300′ to 5,800′, and the Headquarters situated at 5,400′. Topography is sloping to rolling to mesas. Vegetation is Plains & Desert Grassland.

There are 347 acres of private land on the ranch with the majority being located in one contiguous block around the headquarters of the ranch near the center of the grazing area and directly adjacent to the railroad. The headquarters site includes approximately 100 acres of fallow farmland which was historically watered by two irrigation wells. The farm has been fallow for over thirty years and the condition of the well equipment is unknown. Headquarter building improvements include:

• 2,128 sq. ft. doublewide mobile home affixed, four bedroom, two bath, two car garage, with a 340 sq. ft. built-on porch.
• 1,200 sq. ft. site built single family home, four bedroom, one bathroom, of cinder block construction with concrete foundation and floors, asphalt shingle roof and a 200 sq. ft. porch.
• 400 sq. ft. meat house with cutting counter tops and an 8? x 12? walk in freezer. Building is of wood frame construction with wood flooring, wood siding and a shingle roof.
• 180 sq. ft. storage building with wood frame, wood siding, metal tin roof and dirt floors.
• 704 sq. ft. shop/barn building of wood frame, wood floor, wood siding and a metal roof.
• 880 sq. ft. livestock barn with built in horse stalls attached to outside runs, a 1,375 sq. ft. equipment shed is attached to the back side of the livestock barn and is all inclusive under one roof.
• 184 sq. ft. livestock shed with three walls, wood frame, metal roof and dirt floor.
• Additional livestock improvements include a large set of working corrals mostly of steel pipe construction with numerous holding pens, loading chute, working alleys and a five ton scale. Corrals and horse pens have water piped to numerous locations throughout the headquarters site.