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- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…embership Support!, Aug 2009, p. 1 You Make a Difference!, May 2009, p.1 Many, Many Thanks!, Feb 2009, p.1 You Are Our Future!, Nov 2008, p.1 Our Members are Key to Our Success!, Aug 2008, p.1 Your Membership Is More Important Than Ever!, May 2008, p. 1 Thank You One and All!, Feb 2008, p. 1 Nothing Would Happen Without YOU!, Nov 2007, p. 1 Members Respond to Empire Ranch Needs, Aug 2007, p. 1 Make Our Second Decade Even Better than the First!, Ma…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…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)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/the-partners-meet-and-prepare-to-travel-to-arizona-june-july-4-1876/…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
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…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…
- 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/…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…
- Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/…water sources such as dirt tanks so that cattle would not have to travel many miles for water. They had a fine and healthy herd of horses that were extremely well cared for. Fred Boice examining grass at Arivaca Ranch, 1959. ERF archives: B203-19 Fred and Ann Boice Move to Arivaca Ranch – 1953 In the summer of 1953 Fred and Ann Boice moved to the Arivaca Ranch to assist in ranch operations. Their first son, Henry Kelley Boice, was born August 5, 1…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…zona, Inc., the seller, bought 27,000 acres in 1969 from the Frank Boice family for $5 million and bought four other contiguous parcels since then. GAC once intended to develop a satellite city of 180,000 residents on the site, about 45 miles south of Tucson, but offered the property for sale a year ago, when, the company began experiencing financial difficulties. Anamax announced Dec. 12 that it had closed the deal with GAC but did not reveal the…
- Vail & Harvey, 1879-1882
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-harvey-1879-1882/…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…
- Empire Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-land-cattle-company-1883-1887/…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…
- Banning Vail, 1909-1929
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/banning-vail-1909-1929/…nted by Vail and Stratton, 1901. ERF archives: A530-614. Trout in Sabino Canyon – 1916 A newspaper account incorrectly credited Banning for providing a supply of trout to stock Sabino River in Sabino Canyon. “… there is a good supply of the fish in the canyon at the present time that have been bred in from the supply placed in the stream by Banning Vail a stock man some time ago but not enough to supply the general demand.” [Tucson Citizen, 7/28/1…