In reality the use of 'gate" had to do with entrance or cut off the road that took you to the lease site.
I even wrote a federal regulation once that used the term "gate" to mean that and not a physical item.
The rest of their reportage is probably of equal quality ~ not worth diddly squat.
What that means is that for cold hard facts on this story we have to rely on Ricardo and his baby-daddy, and those diesel dykes at the Post can just go pound sand.
I seem to remember the rock being at the fence...where there is a cattle guard. (Cattle guard is a series of pipes spaced far enough apart that a cow would step through the gap...therefore they won’t cross it.)