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- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…Strong Response to Year-end Appeal, Feb 2006, p.1 Your Year-End Financial Support, Nov 2005, p. 1 Membership Support Grows, Aug 2005, p. 4 Help Keep Us At the Top, May 2005, p. 1 A Record-Breaking Year, Feb 2005, p. 1 Year End Financial Support Critical, Nov 2004, p. 1 Counting, Counting and Counting [membership response], Aug 2004, p. 1 Membership Counts!, May 2004, p. 1 Remembering Someone Through Your Gift to ERF, May 2004, p. 4 Just Terrific……
- Banning Vail, 1909-1929
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/banning-vail-1909-1929/…vertisement. Courtesy of Chronicling America. Tucson’s First Long Distance Phone Call – 1911 Telephone operator, Gradye Drown, placed Tucson’s first long distance telephone call in June, 1911. It was a call “to Los Angeles, for cattleman Banning Vail. The call took several days to arrange and cost Vail $25. ‘We first called Red Rock, then Casa Grande, then Yuma, then El Centro and so on to Los Angeles,’ Drown said in an interview with The Arizona…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…I have had one or two scares and that is quite enough for me. We have about 800 head of cattle on the ranch, all cows, and Vail has just gone to New Mexico to buy about 40 good blooded bulls which he will bring here as soon as possible. I do not know how many calves we have at present but shall know by November, as then we shall brand and earmark them. From what I see riding round now, there are a good number. Our band of horses consists of 20 bro…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…will contain six rooms and cost several thousand dollars.” The Vail family numbered 8 in 1895: Walter, Margaret, 5 sons and one daughter. Up to that point the children had been home-schooled at the Empire Ranch by various English governesses. “McGuffey’s readers and Hilliard’s readers with their stress on elocution and formal discourse were mastered, and after the Sunday Bible readings given by Margaret Vail. The children were free to ride about t…
- Tour the Cienega Watershed
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/2023/04/tour-the-cienega-watershed/…avelStory and select “Tour the Cienega Watershed” to save the tour on your phone. Once you’ve download the app and the tour, no Internet access is needed. The tour includes 21 podcast-style stories that will automatically play at the appropriate location using your phone’s GPS. The route loop includes the Gabe Zimmerman Trailhead (in Vail), Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, the Empire Ranch Headquarters, wildlife viewing and many other feat…
- Donate Now
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/involved/donate-now/…ings and landscape for generations to come. There are a variety of ways to support to our efforts. Become a Member A strong membership provides important ongoing support and demonstrates that the Empire Ranch is meaningful to the community and worthy of investment. Member donations accounted for 34% of ERF’s income in 2023. Click here to learn more about membership and to join. New Ranch House Fund The Empire Ranch Foundation is undertaking a capi…
- History Overview
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/overview/…a, assumed the Donaldson grazing lease and are ranching on the Empire Ranch today. From the outset, BLM managers were committed to preserving the historic Empire Ranch headquarters buildings and interpreting them for future generations. Necessary studies were undertaken to support and specify appropriate historic preservation. The Empire Ranch Foundation (ERF) was established as a private non-profit organization in 1997 to work with the BLM to dev…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…ce, president of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association and operator of the 800-cow, 60-section Empire Ranch near Sonoita, said he was feeding his cattle a protein supplement. ‘The conditions are real dry and the grazing conditions are poor,’ he said. He said some shallow wells are pumping air part of the time. ‘I don’t know of anyone in our area who is hauling water yet,’ he said. ‘Most of the people depend on windmills. There’s talk among some o…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…a strong fight to put the cattle industry under government controls, price supports and subsidies. His leadership is credited with keeping the industry on an even keel and free from government control. Being a tax expert, in the fullest meaning of the word, he organized the National Live Stock Tax Committee and served as its chairman until his death in 1956. This committee’s efforts are credited with having saved the nation’s cattle growers untold…
- ERF Membership Rate is Reduced!
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/2023/12/are-you-an-erf-member/…bership to only $35.00. Now, honestly, we’d love to receive more financial support from everyone for this important piece of Arizona history, but we are taking a chance on you. We are asking you to encourage your friends and acquaintances to take advantage of this reduced rate. Financial support is the one thing you can do that doesn’t require time or energy. We urge you to help in this campaign. Membership means caring and caring means future gen…