a ranch or farm having more gophers than cattle; a place that produces more gophers than anything else.
- 1905  [Well, I am happy to inform you that I now have no fewer than 1800 head of gophers on my place.]
- 1905  (1951)  [title given to article] THE GOPHER RANCH.
- 1922  "Well, how goes it on the gopher ranch?"