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- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…cerning the method used by GAC to sell its lots. A position paper from the City of Tucson on the effect on the city’s water supply as a result of the new community. A report on the provisions made by GAC for utilities, treatment of surface runoff, schools and parks, governmental buildings and hospitals.” [Arizona Daily Star, 7/1/1970]. The concern about GAC’s methods for selling lots were prompted by its aggressive marketing efforts including: ”Mi…
- The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/the-partners-meet-and-prepare-to-travel-to-arizona-june-july-4-1876/…( 7/3/1876): “While in San Francisco we visited the Chinese quarter of the city where you might fancy you were in China. They conduct all their business and sell everything that they have in China, getting their goods direct. It is a very amusing part of the city to go through, as they sell such rum things and then do all their transactions so queerly.” Woodward’s Gardens in San Francisco. Photo: San Francisco Memories A Visit to Woodward’s Garden…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…of illness. He entered Into the spirit of the occasion, and while in me Tuesday afternoon was riding rapidly, both cinches of his saddle either broke or slipped in such a manner that the saddle turned and Mr. Vail was thrown violently to the ground. He tried to save himself and his horse becoming frightened, he was dragged a considerable distance before he let go his hold on the horse. Walter G. Martin of Los Angeles, who is also a part owner of t…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…I have had one or two scares and that is quite enough for me. We have about 800 head of cattle on the ranch, all cows, and Vail has just gone to New Mexico to buy about 40 good blooded bulls which he will bring here as soon as possible. I do not know how many calves we have at present but shall know by November, as then we shall brand and earmark them. From what I see riding round now, there are a good number. Our band of horses consists of 20 bro…
- 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…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…In 1905 Henry Boice became the manager 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, th…
- 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…
- Empire Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-land-cattle-company-1883-1887/…85] Rollin R. Richardson. Courtesy of the Patagonia Museum. Trip to Kansas City – October 1885 Walter Vail and R.R. Richardson, owner of the Pennsylvania Ranch near Patagonia, traveled to Kansas City to negotiate rail freight rates for shipping Arizona cattle to Kansas. Later that year Vail, Richardson, and Henry C. Hooker, owner of the Sierra Bonita Ranch in the Sulphur Springs Valley, shipped about 20 carloads of cattle each as an experiment to…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…k Boice, president of the American National Livestock association, said Tuesday as he left for Wyoming to confer with a selective service officials and draft board members there. Boice said cattlemen have been complaining that draft boards, in their patriotic zeal, have been depleting the range of cowboys In Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.” [Tucson Daily Citizen, 5/4/1942] U.S. food rationing poster. Courtesy of SarahSundin.com. Wartime Beef Produc…
- Tour the Cienega Watershed
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/2023/04/tour-the-cienega-watershed/…avelStory and select “Tour the Cienega Watershed” to save the tour on your phone. Once you’ve download the app and the tour, no Internet access is needed. The tour includes 21 podcast-style stories that will automatically play at the appropriate location using your phone’s GPS. The route loop includes the Gabe Zimmerman Trailhead (in Vail), Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, the Empire Ranch Headquarters, wildlife viewing and many other feat…