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- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…Margaret’s children, William Banning Vail, was born in Los Angeles on April 13, 1889. He used his middle name, Banning, and was named after Walter Vail’s good friend, William Banning, whose family owned Catalina Island from 1892-1919. Southern Pacific Railroad engine and crew, circa 1910. Courtesy of Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block. Southern Pacific Railroad Announces Rate Increase – 1889 As overstocking increased in the late l880s, Vail a…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…f Range 19S, Township 17E, southeast of the Empire Ranch located in Section 18. USGS 1905 Patagonia Quadrant map. Neighbor Perry M. Hilton – February 1878 Walter identifies the neighbor causing problems: “One of our neighbors [Perry] Hilton who has sheep does everything he can to annoy us. Harvey and Hislop had trouble with him while I was away and he does not leave a stone unturned to annoy us, he pretends to think a great deal of me but I well k…
- Banning Vail, 1909-1929
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/banning-vail-1909-1929/…the call went through.” [Arizona Daily Star, 6/19/1986] Banning Vail at age 17, 1906. ERF archives, A530-45. William Banning Vail Becomes Manager – 1912 Banning Vail took over management of the Empire Ranch around 1912. He was 23 years old. In Los Angeles Banning had attended Throop Polytechnic Institute when the school’s mission was “to train Pasadena’s youth, from elementary school through college, for factory work in an industrial society.” The…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…ire ranching operations after the death of his father, Pancho. Anamax logo, 1970s Anamax Purchases Empire Ranch From GAC – 1974 “The purchase price of the Empire Ranch, sold nearly three weeks ago to the Anamax Mining Corp., was $12,808,000, according to a deed filed this week with the County Recorder’s Office. The ranch, of which 47,000 acres remain intact, dates back to the days of Spanish colonialism. GAC Properties of Arizona, Inc., the seller…
- 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/…Mustang Mountains in the background, 1880s. ERF archives: A530-08 September 1-9, 1876 – Empire Ranch Expansion Begins Hislop writes (9/23/1876): “We have got another ranch now and 620 sheep on it, we bought the man that owned them out. He was ill with fever and got disgusted so let us have them cheap. We gave him 4/-a head, that is cheap enough and they come in very handy to us as meat and when we can get 50 lbs. of meat for 4/-it is not so bad. I…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…hers.’ [Tucson Garden Club website] WWII Draft Concerns – 1942 On September 16, 1940, the United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. By 1942 the draft was beginning to affect ranching operations throughout the west. “Frank Boice, president of the American National Livestock association, said Tuesday as he left for Wyoming to confer with a…
- Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/…nd Miriam Boice’s second child, Robert Grantham Boice, was born on February 10, 1953. He was known as Grant. Pancho and Sherry Boice’s third child, Sherry Bailey Boice, was born on December 15, 1953. Norman Hinman on horseback in California, 1950. ERF archives: B406-105 Norman Hinman – 1953 Norman Hinman worked as a cowhand for the Boice family for four months (May-August) in 1953. He had finished one year of college in California when he decided…
- Explore Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/visit/visiting-policies/…Foundation provides tours on the second and fourth Saturday of the month at 11am; reservations are required. For more information, click here. For large, private group tours, you may need a Bureau of Land Management Special Recreation Permit (SRP). Click “Do I need a Permit?” for details. What are among the visitor activities? Favorite visitor activities include wildlife viewing, picnicking, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, historic site…
- The Empire Ranch House
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/the-empire-ranch-house/…room house (Rooms 1-4 and 6), constructed of hand cast adobe blocks between 1871 and 1874. Around 1878 a rear addition to the original Ranch House was added to provide room for staff and business offices (Rooms 9-18). Starting in 1878 the Victorian Addition for the family began to be constructed. It included six rooms constructed of adobe (Rooms 19-23, 29) and a Children’s Addition constructed of wood frame (Rooms 24-28). Hold cursor over the room…
- Buildings & Structures
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/buildings-and-structures/…ground-level at the south end, following the slope of the land. There is a 12x 10-foot sliding wooden door on the north end and a 7x 8-foot sliding wooden door on the east end. This east end door was likely added after initial construction of the building because the door opening had to be cut into the two-foot high poured concrete skirt at the base of the wall. A three-over-three light double window is in the center of the south gable (currently…