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- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…nd it is believed he also sustained internal injuries. Upon arrival at the springs a telephone message was sent to Mrs. Vail at Los Angeles, and she replied that she would leave at once on a special train accompanied by the family physician. The train was run to Temecula and from there it was necessary for her to take a forty-mile drive.” [Arizona Daily Star, 10/6/1905] Entrance to Agricultural Park. Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library Los Ange…
- Buildings & Structures
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/buildings-and-structures/…show a small rectangular adobe dwelling with a door on the west end of the north facade. This is likely the northeast room with chimney in the current house plan. The northwest room was likely added next. The three southern rooms to the rear were another addition, likely added at the same time as the porch and current stucco coating. A front gabled roof covered in corrugated metal was added at some point in time over the original flat earthen roof…
- 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…
- 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/…ell you and were suffering from thirst and found a place called Davidson’s Springs at 11 a.m. where we had a breakfast of eggs and bread and milk. I never felt so pleased before. It seems rather strange to have to go 50 miles before you see a house but here you have to do it and very often the whole distance without getting water for your horses. From Davidson’s Springs we started for Fish’s ranch and reached it at 9 p.m. having had quite enough r…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…large strip of land in Colorado. The run of cattle on the ranch this year numbers over 20,000 head and this was the first shipment made. The ranch is well equipped with modern improvements, such as windmills and water tanks on all parts of the immense track of land, which is all under fence. There are also erected on the ranch sheds and other storm protectors. [The Geuda Springs Herald, 9/25/1903]. The ranch was sold in 1907 to Santa Fe Land Impr…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…the partners. The Empire Gulch, a tributary of the Cienega Creek, is just north of the ranch headquarters. The Cienega Creek runs south to north to the east of ranch headquarters. Gaining control of land adjacent to Cienega Creek would prove to be essential to the success of the Empire Ranch. Courtesy of Dave Tuggle. The Need for More Land – August 1877 Hislop also noted the importance of increasing the land holdings of the Empire Ranch: “I am ce…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…by GAC Properties of Arizona as part of a new sales promotion program… the tickets offer an opportunity for visitors to see the company’s Rio Rico development north of Nogales as well as its new project at Empire Ranch when it opens for land sales in early 1971.” [Arizona Daily Star, 6/5/1970] In September the P&Z Commission “The Pima County Planning and Zoning Commission yesterday approved the GAC Properties, Inc., Empire Ranch area plan but adde…
- 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/…wned 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 think we shall sell them soon for 9/-apiece so if we do, it will not be a bad trade. One day when I was baking my bread I had left the kitchen for a moment to do something and when I returned I caught a snake under the s…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…evelopment of the screwworm in the southwest, as well as its spread to the north and northeast. The only practical way to protect livestock from screwworms, Dr. Pistor points out is to examine animals frequently so that wounds may be treated before becoming infested, or to doctor infested animals before the maggots have had time to cause serious injury.” [Casa Grande Dispatch, 7/15/1938] The “soot medicine” mentioned by Gordon Cooper was “Smear 62…
- The Trip from Los Angeles to Tucson (July 5-13, 1876)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/the-trip-from-los-angeles-to-tucson-july-5-13-1876/…30 a.m., not getting breakfast till 12:30 p.m. Then changed again at Canon Springs [Canyon Springs] still on the Desert where we had an accident which might have been very serious. We had 6 horses that were half broken and when the driver wanted them to start they began bucking… and bolted away, the reins breaking. I never heard any man swear like the driver did. I really thought he had gone mad as he kept it up so long.” Ferry Boat Crossing the C…