Murgoo Station

Murgoo Station is a pastoral lease and sheep station located in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

Situated approximately 112 kilometres (70 mi) to the north of Yalgoo and 146 kilometres (91 mi) to the west of Cue, the station has an area of 402,960 acres (163,072 ha) consisting of saltbush plains and mulga country. with an elevation of approximately 800 feet (244 m) above sea level.

The station was established in 1873 by Edward and Frank Wittenoom and possibly owned for a time in 1875 by the Mungarra Squatting Company that was run by A. Brown and J. H. Monger.

In 1880 the Wittenooms established the homestead at the current site. In 1891 the Wittenooms sold the property to Messrs Richard Holmes and H. Maloney. Holmes later sold his share to Maloney who ran the station until his death in 1903.

Th station was on the market in 1905 and had a flock of 19,000 sheep, 500 cattle and 55 horses. There were many shallow wells and 23 windmills. Divided into 15 large sheep paddocks, one large cattle paddock and ten smaller paddocks for horses or other stock, the station was sold later that same year to agents of Mr Charles Atkins for the sum of £23,200.

The Aitken's imported Merino rams to the station from Victoria in 1908.

In 1918, the Aitken's sold off 298 rams from the property.

From 1919 the station was being managed by R. W. Fremlin, who steadily improved the properties situation. The property contained between 60-70 windmills by 1928 and had 423 miles (681 km) of five and six strand fencing erected. Fremlin retired from managing Murgoo and other Atkins Brothers holding including Mount Narryer and Tibradden Station in the 1930s and moved to Mullewa where he died in 1954 aged 80. The combined properties run by Fremlin ran over 40,000 sheep and routinely produced 1200–1400 bales of wool per year.

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