Lot 22

What this tract does best is hide you. Cover is the whole story on these 27.94 acres of Brandon Ranch, and cover is why a buyer takes it: heavy live oak and cedar standing shoulder to shoulder, with small grass openings cut into the middle of it like rooms in a house. You can walk 40 yards off one opening and be gone from sight. Ranch land for sale in Schleicher County runs to wide open country more often than not, and this tract in particular went the other way, which is exactly its value. Deer country. A camp you can't see from anywhere else.

Those openings are the thing you'll remember. Bluestem and grama running knee high, gone yellow-gold by late season, each one framed tight by dark cedar on both sides so the evening sun comes in low and lights the grass up like a lamp before the shade takes it. Sit still on the edge of one at last light and you understand what you bought. They are natural shooting lanes, and they are also the only flat, clear, ready-made places to park a camper or pitch a tent without touching a tree.

Underfoot it's honest Edwards Plateau ground. Caliche and broken limestone showing white through the grass, prickly pear low along the rock, tasajillo standing up thin and green where the soil is thinnest. That rock is what keeps the country from turning to mud when it does rain, so a two-track through here holds up better than it has any right to. The cedar carries berries heavy in season, and the birds work it hard. You'll hear them long before you see them.

The land isn't flat. It picks up about 48 ft across the tract, from roughly 2,307 up to about 2,355 ft, and that rise gives you real choices about where a place sits. Build or camp on the high ground and you're up out of the low draws with a breeze most evenings. The oaks up top are the old ones, thick-trunked and lichen-grey, with crowns wide enough to park a truck under and stay cool through an August afternoon. Ground higher than yours may sit beyond the line, so come see for yourself what opens up from the top of this one.

Eldorado and the country around it were built on wool and mohair. By 1930 this county ran close to a quarter million sheep and clipped better than a million and a half pounds of wool in a year, and the mill in town made Eldorado the place the whole region's fleeces came through. Running range like that took room, and the room is still here. Neighbors are a drive away, not a fence away, and the nights out here get genuinely dark.

Tract 22 is surveyed with its own boundaries out of the 1,746-acre Brandon Ranch. Restrictions are light and mostly aimed at keeping commercial operations off the place, so the quiet holds. Owner financing is available with as little as 5% down, and we handle the paperwork ourselves without the runaround. Access, utilities and anything you plan to build are worth going over with us directly, and we'll give you straight answers.

• Heavy Oak And Cedar Cover
• Natural Grass Openings
• 48 Ft Of Elevation Change
• Surveyed Tract, Light Restrictions
• Owner Financing From 5% Down

Come walk it in the last two hours of daylight, when the openings light up and the deer start moving between them. Wear boots with a stiff sole, because the limestone is sharp and the pear doesn't move for anybody. We'll show you the high ground, walk you through the openings, and point out the corners so you know precisely what you're standing on. Texas ranch land, sold the right way.