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  • Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
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    …Sep 2019, p. 2 A Grand Milestone, A Grand Celebration, June 2019, p. 1 YES! 2018, Sep 2018, p. 2 Mormon Trek Experience, June 2018, p. 2 YES! 2017, Sep 2017, p. 2 Christmas Snow Blankets the Empire Ranch, Mar 2017, p.1 Spring Education Activities for Kids, Sep 2016, p. 2 YES! 2016, Sep 2016, p. 2 1880’s to Steampunk Event a Big Success, Mar 2016, p. 1 From 1880’s to Steampunk, Nov 2015, p. 3 YES! 2015 Program Studies NCA Grasses, Aug 2015, p. 2 Yo…

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …n California Libraries and California Historical Society. Chino Ranch Co., CaliforniaJanuary 1895 In 1895 the Chino Ranch Company was incorporated. Vail and Gates along with three other California investors were the incorporators. Walter Vail had been working with Richard Gird, an Arizona pioneer and one of the founders of Tombstone, who had purchased the forty-seven thousand-acre Rancho del Chino, east of Los Angeles. Gird established the Chin…

  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
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    …Steer. 1927. Courtesy of MakSiccar on Pinterest. Empire Ranch to be Sold – January 1928 On January 19, 1928 Banning Vail and his brother Russell visited Frederic Winn, Forest Supervisor, at his Tucson office. They informed Mr. Winn that “…they have a deal on with Mr. Henry G. Boice of the Chiricahua Ranches Company of Phoenix, AZ, under the terms of which the Chiricahua Ranches Company are to take over all ranch property both on and off the Forest…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
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    …sale of the Empire to Gulf American was announced. GAC “… associates from Florida, California and locally have been discussing plans with the county engineers, sanitation and planning and zoning officials. The Tucson engineering firm of Cella Barr have four men currently working at the site. Gulf American plans include an entire city, with a central business district, industrial sites, multiple housing and homes ranging from three to one per acre…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …rizona Weekly Citizen, December 9, 1876 Cattle at Last and No More Sheep – January 1877 In January the partners are finally able to secure some cattle, despite a brush with a group of Apaches who had been raiding in southeastern Arizona since early December. Vail writes (1/20/1877): “I expect you will see by the papers that we have been having pretty hot times with the Apaches, I was on the San Pedro river when they first broke out they came up wi…

  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
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    …g a few years off to serve in the Navy during WWII. Jack was from southern California and was a fullback on the UA football team. After a honeymoon in Mexico the couple moved to California where Jack worked for the State Exploration Oil Company. Outdoor scenes from The Furies, 1950. The Furies – 1949 The Furies, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey and Walter Huston, was filmed in several Tucson locations, including the Empire Ranch. “About 75…

  • Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
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    …a. 1926. Courtesy of Martha Madani. Frank and Mary Move to the Onyx Ranch, California – 1924 In 1924 Frank and Mary Boice moved to California to run the leased Onyx Ranch in Kern County. “The ranch was stocked with yearlings coming off the Indian [San Carlos & Apache] reservations. They were pastured for a year and sold as grass-fed two-year olds into the Los Angeles market.” [Robert G. (Bob) Boice and Family by Miriam Boice, ca. 2000] Margaret an…

  • The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
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    …876, Los Angeles, California Herbert Hislop and Walter Vail purchase stage tickets from Indian Wells (now Indio) California to Tucson Arizona. Hislop describes the celebrating underway on 4th of July eve. “They were letting off fireworks and firing anvils in the streets. The way they fire anvils is this, they bury one anvil in the ground, the bottom side uppermost and fill the little square hole with gunpowder, placing the other anvil on the top…

  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …horses and mules have been stolen by Apaches, from the people, and quite a number of cattle killed. The Apaches kill a beef when they are in want of beef, and take what they need at the time and let the balance remain to spoil or be eaten by wild beasts. The settlers to the number of twenty-five, recently followed the trail of the stock and thieves, thinking first it might lead to San Carlos, but it led directly to New Mexico, and they followed it…

  • The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
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    …for years past. Placer miners are takin out as much gold as at any time. A number of stockmen are exploring the mountains for the best localities for water and grass and intend to soon decide upon places and engage regularly and permanently in growing cattle in Pima county the best by all odds in the Territory for the business.” Southeastern Arizona’s summer rains (monsoons) result in spectacular vegetation growth, as show in this recent photo at…