Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Ranch
In Queensland, the good pastures are basically located in the area east of the Great Dividing Range, that is, in the east and southeast of Queensland, and of course some of the good pastures are in the plains between the north of the Barkley Terrace and the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north.
Precipitation in these areas is much higher than in the northwest, so the aquatic grasses in these areas are very lush, especially suitable for the development of large pastures.
In contrast, these areas in north-west Queensland have much less precipitation because of the blocking of moist air by the Great Dividing Range and the Barkley Terrace, so although there are pastures in this area of north-west Queensland, most of these pastures are built along rivers or lakes.
Like the ranch in the small town of Kajabi, this is basically the case. The town of Kajabi is located next to the Lechhat River, so most of the pastures in the town are located on both sides of the Lechhat River.
Although Hamilton's ranch is also close to the Lechhat River, his family's ranch is still far from Kajabi, almost on the shore of Julius Lake. However, it is precisely because of this that Hamilton's ranch has such a large area, after all, Julius Lake is about 50 kilometers away from the small town of Kajabi, which refers to the distance of the river, and if you take the sandy road, it is about 40 kilometers from Hamilton's ranch to Kajabi.
If you are in China, a distance of 40 kilometers is almost equivalent to the distance from one county town to another, but in Australia, especially in the inland areas of Australia, 40 kilometers is nothing at all, and some pastures are hundreds of kilometers away from the places where the ranchers live.
This is mainly because there are no large carnivores in the Australian outback, so in Australia, the cattle are basically raised in the open pen, and no one needs to take care of them, and the cattle will return to the cowshed of the ranch at night. If you want to herd sheep, you only need to raise a few sheepdogs, and you can basically take care of a large group of sheep.
That's right, this is the way of grazing in Australia, which is very different from the way of grazing in China.
The herders in the small town of Kajabi all adopt this type of stocking, so Tang Feng was only a little surprised by this stocking method at the initial stage, but with Mr. Hamilton's explanation, Tang Feng understood these things thoroughly.
On the evening of the conversation between Tang Feng and Old Jack, Mr. Hamilton came to visit Tang Feng. Mr. Hamilton is an old man in his sixties, but he seems to be in a bad spirit, and it is no wonder that, according to Old Jack, Mr. Hamilton's youngest son is working in finance in Brisbane. Trouble, because of a misjudgment of the market, Hamilton's youngest son lost tens of millions of dollars in the financial markets.
Mr. Hamilton, like Jack Sr., had two sons, but his eldest son had died in a car accident a few years earlier, and now he was left with the younger son. Seeing that such a big thing happened to his younger son, Mr. Hamilton had to find a way to solve this big problem for his younger son. Trouble, but how can the loss of tens of millions of Australian dollars be easily solved? In desperation, Mr. Hamilton decided to sell the ranch.
But it's not so easy to sell ranch, this is the small town of Kajabi, deep in the north-west inland of Queensland, not the pastures of eastern and southeastern Queensland. It is easy to sell pastures with good water and soil, but it is not so easy to sell such semi-arid pastures that go deep into the inland areas - one of the main reasons is that ordinary ranches do not like to go to inland areas.
So even though Mr. Hamilton advertised on the Internet and at the agency, more than a week had passed, and there was not even a single person who asked.
This made Mr. Hamilton very anxious, his youngest son is now squatting in a prison in Brisbane on suspicion of huge fraud, and the lawyer said that if the compensation is not paid within two months, once the court starts in two months, then the sentence of little Hamilton to prison is almost a certainty.
It was at this time that Tang Feng came to Cajabi and came into the sight of Mr. Hamilton Sr., so when Old Hamilton received a call from Old Jack that the young man who had come to town today wanted to buy a ranch, Mr. Hamilton Sr. immediately came to visit Don.
The two of them had a good conversation that night, no, early the next morning, Mr. Hamilton Sr. drove his pickup truck to take Tang Feng to the ranch to have a look.
"Don, ahead is my ranch, and from here all the way to the eastern shore of Lake Julius, this large area belongs to me. I bought it thirty years ago, and I've been with me for half my life, but alas," old Hamilton couldn't say any more, and sighed.
Old Jack, who was sitting in the back seat, gently patted Old Hamilton on the shoulder, the two of them had been together at a very young age, for more than forty years, and naturally knew Old Hamilton's feelings for this ranch. If it were his old Jack, it would probably be very uncomfortable.
For this, Tang Feng couldn't help, and wanted to comfort old Hamilton, but he didn't know what to say.
From the map that Old Hamilton had brought out, the ranch was irregular, mainly because it was next to a mountainous area on the west side, so the ranch was basically along the foot of the mountain, but in this area near the Lechhat River, the grass in it was very abundant.
The three men got out of the car, and the elder Hamilton pointed to the pasture with abundant grass and said: "My ranch is not only for cattle and sheep, but also for pasture in this area next to the riverbank, and the area for cattle and sheep is in the semi-arid area to the south. ”
Tang Feng nodded, combined with the map, and looked at the vast and flat land in front of him. The topography of this land is somewhat similar to a valley in the mountains of the Buckley Plateau, and the surrounding mountains are not very high, similar to hills, and the flat area between two north-south trending hills is not like a valley area.
The old Hamilton's ranch is generally in a north-south direction, because of the mountain, the length of the north and south is about seven kilometers, and the width of the east and west reaches three kilometers at the widest point, which is the area closest to the bank of the Lechhat River.
The topography of the MacArthur Fault Basin is very much in line with the characteristics of the MacArthur Fault Basin, which means that although it is almost 70 kilometers away from Mount Isa, the geological conditions here are no different from those of Mount Isa, but it is not known whether there are any ore layers under the surface here.
For others, if they want to know whether there are mineral resources under the ground here, they need a lot of money to survey, but for Tang Feng, these are not a problem at all. After talking to Old Hamilton and Old Jack, Tang Feng quickly ascended to a high ground on the side of the ranch under the gaze of the two old men.
On the surface, Tang Feng seemed to be climbing up to watch this pasture, but in fact, Tang Feng had secretly activated the star core's survey function and started a detailed scan of this land.