Pampa, TX 79065(Roberts County)

The East Division of the Pickens' Mesa Vista Ranch fronts the Canadian River, or has river bottom country along the river for a distance of approximately 10 miles. In some places the bottomland is only about one-half mile wide, but throughout much of the ranch, the river bottom country is a mile or more wide. This fertile sandy bottomland grows an abundance of productive native grasses and massive cottonwood trees are common throughout the river bottom, along with willows, hackberry, chinaberry, and others. Many areas throughout the river bottom country are sub-irrigated and with some management, are suitable for hay production. Currently, several small areas are cut for hay, but much more land is suitable for hay production, if desired.

Indian Creek drains through a portion of the ranch for several miles. Indian Creek drains into the Canadian on the property. This creek is supplemented by live springs and several large, deep natural fishing holes. Cottonwoods are common along Indian Creek and its tributaries.

The river and creek bottom country are both scenic and productive, offering outstanding wildlife habitat.

Immediately to the south of the river bottom, the elevation gradually increases as the property transitions into rolling and undulating mid and tall grass sand hills country. Typical sand hill vegetation includes sumac, sage, wild plum thickets, and groves of hackberry trees.

Further south the terrain becomes more broken as the ranch continues to elevate to hills, ridges, mesa side slopes and upland plateaus. Mesquite is common in this area of the ranch with scattered cedar in the more broken country.

Water:

Several years ago, Mr. Pickens dredged a man-made creek, known as Boone's Creek, which basically parallels the Canadian River. Surging water overflows from a large circular concrete water holding reservoir located along Boone's Creek. This creek flows a distance of 2.5 - 3 miles through the East Division of the property and is located in the Canadian River bottom.

Boone's Creek first flows into two shallow man-made duck/goose ponds, one containing approximately 15 surface acres and the other approximately 20 surface acres. These ponds have perfect tall grass vegetation for water fowl habitat. The creek then continues on, ultimately flowing into a large man-made fishing lake, which contains approximately 20 surface acres. Both the creek and the lake have been stocked with bass.

These exceptional water features are only duplicated on Boone's Headquarters Division of the Mesa Vista Ranch, and to the knowledge of the broker, do not exist on any other ranch in the Texas Panhandle.

Another productive creek bottom area, Indian Creek, drains through a portion of the ranch for several miles. Indian Creek drains into the Canadian on the property. This creek is supplemented by live springs and several large, deep natural fishing holes. Cottonwoods are common along Indian Creek and its tributaries.

Livestock water is available by windmills, solar wells, etc., but very few cattle have been run on the ranch in recent years, as the focus has definitely been on wildlife enhancements.

Access:

Access to the property is by paved highway frontage and a graded county road also accesses the eastern portion of the property. Access into the ranch is provided by a private ranch road at an attractive locked (keypad) entrance gate.

Improvements:

The property is very well improved, with the main headquarter improvements being located in a scenic tree covered setting. These improvements include two comfortable homes, a gun room, large rock faced barn, four bay storage building and an old frame feed house that was restored by Mr. Pickens when he first purchased the nucleus of the ranch in 1971. Towards the eastern portion of the ranch are the original Payne Ranch Headquarters improvements. The Payne Ranch is one of the divisions Boone assembled over the years.

Hunting/Recreation:

Throughout Mr. Pickens' ownership, he has continued to enhance the productivity of the Mesa Vista Ranch, with the primary focus being quail habitat improvement; however, these improvements have been beneficial for all wildlife. Quail feeders are found all over the ranch and waterlines have been run through portions of the property to numerous, protected, quail watering holes. Even during droughts, native quail have access to grain in the feeders and water along the waterline network. As needed, grain is scattered along roadways to supplement the quail. A few food plots are located on the ranch. These cultivated areas are typically planted to wheat and serve as a magnet for deer.

Besides offering outstanding quail hunting, the ranch offers great dove hunting and has an outstanding white tail deer population, impressive mule deer, an abundance of turkey, a few antelope, feral hogs, aoudad and exceptional migratory water fowl. The sportsman will enjoy the bass fishing available in the stocked lake and in Boone's Creek.

As testament to Boone's love for the land and passion to benefit quail habitat and numbers, Boone was awarded the prestigious Park Cities Quail Unlimited "Lifetime Sportsman Award." Their press release stated, "Park Cities Quail Unlimited honored legendary oil entrepreneur, conservationist, and avid sportsman T. Boone Pickens on March 6th as its 2008 Lifetime Sportsman Award winner before 900 guests in the Frontiers of Flight Museum near Dallas Love Field Airport." The release went on to state, "The local chapter, founded in 2005 to develop, preserve, restore and maintain upland game habitat throughout this region and to improve hunting opportunities for area sportsmen, lauds Mr. Pickens' lifelong love of the outdoors, respect for natural resources, and his extraordinary contributions to restoring quail habitat in Roberts County."

Remarks:

The East Division of the Mesa Vista Ranch is, without question, one of the most unique and diverse properties found in the Texas Panhandle.

Price: $1,250 per acre