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- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…urces, May 2007, p. 4 The Empire Ranch Makes Great Reading, Feb 2007, p. 3 New: Index to Newsletters, Nov 2005, p. 4 Natural Resources Tour LCNCA and the Cienega Watershed, June 2023, p. 3 Celebrating 20 Years of Shared Conservation Stewardship, December 2020, p. 1 Healing Rains, Sep 2017, p. 3 Sawmill Fire Scorches Las Cienegas Area, June 2017, p. 1 Christmas Snow Blankets the Empire Ranch, Mar 2017, p.1 Cottonwoods, more than just a backdrop, Ju…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…Gird. Charlotte Worthington Newhall. Courtesy of Jeffrey Costa. Charlotte Newhall and Sinclair Oliver Marry – March 1895 On March 20, 1895 Margaret Vail’s sister, Charlotte Newhall married Sinclair Oliver in Los Angeles. The ceremony was held at the home of Margaret and Charlotte’s mother, Mary Jane Newhall. Margaret had wanted her mother to move West from New Jersey and sometime in the early 1890s Mary Jane along with Margaret’s two brothers, Is…
- 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…
- The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/the-partners-meet-and-prepare-to-travel-to-arizona-june-july-4-1876/…om Los Angeles. He introduced us to another Englishman, Freeman by name of Freeman…” Mr. Freeman was most likely Daniel Freeman who actually hailed from Ontario, Canada. He became wealthy farming barley, lemons, olives and almonds on his Southern California ranch. Centinela Adobe, 1890 Source: Wikipedia Wolf Hunt Near Los Angeles Vail writes: “Last Saturday (July 1st) Hislop and I were invited out in the country to a wolf hunt which was gotten up…
- Banning Vail, 1909-1929
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/banning-vail-1909-1929/…of the Frank Hereford home. Courtesy of Mrs. John Carroll. The Tucson Open Air School – 1922 Dusty Vail recalls: “Bill and I started school together. We attended the “Open Air School” which was held in the Hereford gardens. When the time came to go to school, we lived with our grandparents, and would spend vacations at the ranch. So mother became the visiting mother, you might say, when she came to Tucson. Nana was in charge in no uncertain terms….
- Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/…ip. Pancho frequently flew to the Slash S ranch in Globe which also had an airstrip. The airstrip was decommissioned in the 2000s and is today designated a group camping site on Las Cienegas National Conservation Area. US Census of Agriculture, 1959. Arizona. US Dept. of Commerce Empire Cattle Co. Incorporated as Boice & Company – 1961 In 1961 Pancho and Bob Boice incorporated the Empire Cattle Co. as Boice & Company. As the new decade began Arizo…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…nado National Forest. That year the US Forest Service began to institute a new policy that would limit the number of cattle grazed on Forest Service allotments to 1,200 head. Since the four CRC ranches (Arivaca, Empire, Eureka, and Rail X) were considered one entity this regulatory change would have a drastic effect on their economic viability. The Empire Ranch leased over 44,000 acres in the Coronado National Forest, primarily in the Santa Rita M…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…the Arivaca Ranch about 60 miles south of Tucson have been sold to Morton Freedman of Chicago one of the developers of 1900-acre Diamond Bell Ranch 23 miles west of Tucson. In addition Freedman has options to buy another 1900 acres of the ranch from Boice’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry G Boice of Tucson.” [Tucson Citizen, 9/17/1971] Aerial photo of the new Western Slope Feeders feed lot, 1970s. Courtesy of Grant Boice More Business Expansion – 1971…
- Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-ranch-is-purchased-and-the-hard-work-begins-august-december-1876/…as the English Boys Outfit, despite the fact that Walter Vail hailed from New Jersey. Hislop and Vail only mention this new partner in passing in their letters. Hislop writes (10/22/1876): “At the time I am writing there is a company of soldiers on our ranch camping, in search of Indians. They are about 200 yds. from the house and I am all alone again, as my other two partners have gone to look at some corn fodder which we want for our horses dur…
- The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/the-search-for-the-right-ranch-july-14-august-22-1876/…getting into the civilized world. Walter Vail’s fiancée, Margaret Russell Newhall, ca 1884. Source: ERF archives, A530-80 July 18, 1876 – Vail’s Impression of Fish’s Ranch Vail writes to his fiancée Maggie (7/18/1876): I have just returned from a ranch fifty miles south of Tucson which is called the Fish ranch as it belongs to a Mr. Fish, it is quite a pretty place it consists mostly of rolling hills which reminds me very much of the Iowa prairie…