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  • Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
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    …b 2002, p. 5 Preservation & Restoration CLICK HERE to browse entries. Publicity New “Rack Card” to Promote Empire Ranch, September 2022, p. 2 Awards Galore, Aug 2012, p. 3 Empire Ranch Named to Arizona List of Significant Endangered Historic Places, Feb 2008, p. 3 The Empire Ranch Makes Great Reading, Feb 2007, p. 3 Empire Ranch Story on Your Newsstands, Aug 2004, p. 4 Empire Ranch Makes the Big Times, Aug 2003, p. 2 Internet Debut for empireranch…

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …archives: A540-009 Carroll W. Gates (1860-1920) Carroll Gates was born in New York in 1860 and moved at an early age with his family to California. Educated in the San Jose area he first worked for David Jack’s Pacific Grove Resort at Monterey from 1880 to 1887. In 1887 he moved to Los Angeles to deal in real estate with A. E. Pomeroy. He knew nothing about ranching, but his strong business and investment background proved extremely helpful to Wa…

  • The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
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    …o partner with Walter in a ranching venture in Arizona. Herbert arrived in New York on May 23, 1876 aboard the ship “The Queen.” In a letter (6/16/1876) to his sister Amy, he stated that he went “…through the custom house satisfactorily, though they stopped my gun and rifle and made me swear a lot of stuff about my having used it, etc.” He stayed in the New York area for a fortnight seeing the sights and spending time with Nathan and his wife Anna…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …to help you I will willingly do.” By June Hislop had embarked by ship from New York to London. Walter wrote: “I have been so busy for the past 10 days that I have not had time to do anything outside of the cattle, but I am glad to say that we are through with the hardest of the work. We have been counting the cattle and branding the young calves of which there are about 200 head which is an increase since we branded last fall. Hislop will probably…

  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
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    …ted throughout the United States 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 is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …s afternoon fore I only had to pay $75. I don’t know what it would cost in New York but I suppose $25 would be a big price.” There is to be a grand feast in Tucson which will commence the 28th of this month and will last ten days. It is a Catholic feast which is gotten up by the Mexicans, there are thousands here every year from Mexico who come on purpose to attend the feast and gamble. I am in hopes we will get away from this place before the fea…

  • Empire Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
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    …ise about $2,500 to buy cattle for my ranch. Can’t you manage it for me in New York on my note? Will give for security property here or T.W. stock as collateral, but the latter of course would only wish to place in the hands of some friend.” By March he had managed to purchase some cattle. The VR stood for Vail & Risley. Eugene W. Risley, was a courthouse reporter and clerk of the Pima County Board of Supervisors, who invested in the ranch. Genera…

  • Vail & Harvey, 1879-1882
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    …ttract investors. Nathan Vail was instrumental in the incorporation in the New York State of the Total Wreck Mining and Milling Company. They were successful in obtaining investors for a little less than 50% of the stock. The Vails maintained majority ownership of the stock. Marriage Record for John Noble Harvey. John Harvey Marries Alice Maud Annand – April 1881 In 1881 Walter and John Harvey decided to marry. Harvey traveled to England and on Ap…

  • Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
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    …r of the famed XIT Ranch in Channing, TX, and the Boice family left Kansas City for Channing. The XIT was established in 1879 when the Texas Legislature appropriated three million acres of land to finance a new state Capitol building. The land was to be sold over time to finance the Capitol building and the ranch was established to use the land until it was sold. In 1905, when Henry Boice became the manager, the land holdings were being sold in sm…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
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    …t neither lean nor limpy, Kirk Douglas. Anything but a typical saddle bum, New York born Douglas rose through Broadway to tough dramatic roles, now heads his own movie company. His co-star is Oscar-winning Anthony Quinn, a man able and willing to say more than “they went thataway” at the drop of a sombrero.” [Arizona Daily Star, 4/4/1958] The photo illustrating this post resulted when Mary Boice suggested to Mary and Bob Bowman, who had been brand…