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  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
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    …otments in the Crook and Coronado 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,…

  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
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    …917. Banning registered on that date and did not claim any exemptions from service on his application. In September he was ordered to report for service. In February 1918 the Tucson Citizen reported: ‘Banning Vail manager of the Empire Ranch has been given a total exemption from service on the ground that be is the essential head of an agricultural industry necessary to the military establishment. Mr. Vail was called in the first draft, claimed ex…

  • Special Recreation Permits
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    …ts to make a profit, receive money, amortize equipment, or obtain goods or services, as compensation from participants in recreational activities occurring on public lands led, sponsored, or organized by that person, group, or organization. An activity, service, or use is commercial if anyone collects a fee or receives other compensation that is not strictly a sharing of, or exceeds, actual expenses incurred for the purposes of the activity, servi…

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …was a soldier who had served in Arizona and elected to stay there when his service was finished. Paine left this establishment for the Empire Ranch to meet with Tom Turner, the foreman, whom he knew. The road led through a gap in a small mountain range, and then down a gently sloping and rolling country, past several deserted houses, and to the ranch house which was about twenty miles from the railroad. From the ranch house, Paine left for the rou…

  • Recognition & Awards
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    …’s Heritage Preservation Honor Award – Adobe Haybarn Project National Park Service – 2016 Historic American Landscape Survey Challenge 2013 U.S. Department of Interior – Partners in Conservation Award 2012 Arizona Governor’s Archaeology Advisory Committee – Award in Public Archaeology for a Non-Profit Entity Arizona Centennial Commission – Official Event 2008 Bureau of Land Management – Excellence in Public Lands Partnership 2007 Arizona Preservat…

  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
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    …about the project quite rightly plagues the supervisors. That is the sewer service. They take exception to GAC’s plan to use septic tanks as a sewerage system because the land is red clay and will not absorb sewage.” [Tucson Citizen, 3/18/1971] The SCC Board eventually approved the proposal in October, with some reductions in the scope of the project. Artistic rendering of the Empire Ranch development. ERF archives: C500-012 GAC Ready to Start – 1…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
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    …Ranch, 1969. Monte Walsh Filmed at Empire Ranch – 1969 In May 1969 Cinema Center Films began construction of a set for the “Slash Y” ranch for the filming of Monte Walsh, starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance. The “Slash Y” was located on Empire Ranch property, south of ranch headquarters. The Tucson Citizen reported that Pancho Boice “…looked over the layout and said the bunkhouse was too close to the main ranch house. So 30 or 40 wor…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …nly found in the southern part of the state. Courtesy of the National Park Service. Another Christmas Dinner – December 1877 Hislop wrote of his Christmas dinner plans: “Next week we have to go on the hunt for our Xmas dinner. We intend to go into the mountains to shoot turkey, ducks we have plenty near the house, so you see we intend to have as good a time as possible. Our dinner is to consist of suckling pig, turkey ( if possible), ducks, quail…

  • Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/

    …Boice moved to Pearce, “…where the CCC’s off-reservation operations still centered and began an active part in the management, along with his brother, Henry.” The company headquarters were in the West Wells area, east of Pearce. [Richard Schaus, Hereford Tradition of Arizona’s Boices, 1959] Mary Grantham, 1920s. Courtesy of Martha Madani Mary Grantham – 1922 In Pearce Frank Boice met Mary Grantham whose parents, Robert and Musette, were farming i…

  • Anamax Ownership, 1975-1988
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    Empire Ranch windmill being serviced by the pump department of Ronstadt’s Hardware, 1970s. ERF archives: C520-121 Anamax Plans for the Empire Ranch – 1975 Anamax was a partnership of Anaconda and Amax mining companies. Their primary interest in the Empire Ranch property was its water supply. “If Anamax develops the East Helvetia property, it will use water from the Empire to run the mine. Stott explained as he drove along a ranch road, ‘We drille…