Two years later Butcher sold the station to Dr James William Hope and his future father-in-law John Henry Monger.
Hope operated the station with a sequence of partners, initially Alexander Crawford, later William Dalgety Moore, until 1891.
[2][3][4] In 1886 the property occupied an area of 1,100,000 acres (445,154 ha), watered by two major rivers, several clay pans and numerous shallow wells.
[5][6] In 1884 the Murchison flooded out to a distance of 6 miles (10 km) from the river bank and the main homestead was washed away with about 3,000 ewes and lambs.
One shepherd spent five days stuck up a tree before being rescued by a passerby who swam his horse two miles to reach him.