The station occupies an area of 1,600,000 acres (647,497 ha), with the homestead situated alongside the Murchison River.
[2] The area is well vegetated with mulga and salt bush as well as grass that grows in abundance and which was often cut to make hay.
O'Grady constructed a rudimentary hut and shearing shed a few miles from the current homestead.
The party came down with a fever in their first year and a shepherd ended up taking the sick man to Geraldton in a cart for treatment.
[11] The station was briefly owned by Archibald M'Kellar of Geraldton, who had inherited it from his brother-in-law, James Aitken.
M'Kellar, who was described as being "of eccentric disposition" died in 1904 and left a will leaving his estate to a cousin in Scotland and to hospitals in Perth, Fremantle and Geraldton, but neglected to specify the share each would receive.
[12] It was acquired shortly afterwards by the Mulcahy brothers, Daniel and Michael, who were well known hoteliers in Perth, Fremantle and Kalgoorlie in 1905.
[15] Tompkiss' body was found to contain traces of arsenic, used in sheep dip, which it was thought he consumed in a bottle of whiskey.
[18] In 1917 Michael Mulcahy died leaving his brother Daniel to carry on their pastoral and hotel interests.
[19] In 1925 the trustees of the late Daniel Mulcahy purchased the thoroughbred stallion Star Comedy, the third sire bought for the station over the last few years.
Calves had to be separated from their mothers and penned near the homestead where they were fed milk replacement pills.