Tickalara Station most commonly known as Tickalara is a
pastoral lease that operates as a
cattle station
In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm (station is equivalent to the American ranch), the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle. The owner of a cattle station is called a ''grazier''. The largest cattle statio ...
in south west
Queensland
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.
It is situated about north of
Tibooburra
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and south east of
Innamincka.
The Fitzgerald brothers owned the station from 1887 to 1897 and lost about £100,000 over those 10 years.
History
Tickalara received of rain over a few days in 1890 and the surrounding country was submerged for miles around.
The property was stocked with about 50,000 sheep in 1894.
Sackville and
Sidney Kidman
Sir Sidney Kidman (9 May 18572 September 1935), known as Sid Kidman and popularly named "the Cattle King", was an Australian pastoralist and entrepreneur who owned or co-owned large areas of land in Australia in his lifetime.
Early life
Sidne ...
acquired Tickalara in late 1897 for £10,000 from the Fitzgerald brothers. The Kidmans also acquired many other stations in the channel country at about the same time including
Annandale
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United Kingdom
*Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway, a strath in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Australia
*Annandale, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
*Annandale, Queensland, a suburb of ...
and
Alton Downs Station
Alton Downs Station, most commonly known simply as Alton Downs, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in north east South Australia.
The property is situated approximately south west of Birdsville and
north west of Innaminc ...
. At this time the station occupied an area of and was stocked with 22,000 sheep, 600 cattle and 600 horses.
Following a drought in
Western Australia
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and
South Australia
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in 1914, Kidman offered farmers
agistment
Agistment originally referred specifically to the proceeds of pasturage in the king's forests. To agist is, in English law, to take cattle to graze, in exchange for payment (derived from the Old English ''giste'', ''gite'', a "lying place").
...
for their horses at Tickalara for 500 head until conditions improved.
See also
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List of ranches and stations
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
West Africa
*Obudu Cattle Ranch
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References
{{Stations of Sidney Kidman
Stations (Australian agriculture)
Pastoral leases in Queensland