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- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…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
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…in Tucson on November 30, 1890. Mahlon was the only Vail child not born in New Jersey or Los Angeles. Maybe Margaret wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving at the Empire Ranch and did not make it to Los Angeles in time for the birth. The family now consisted of four boys and one girl. Two white horses holding down a roped cow. This Image was used for the Vail & Gates letterhead. ERF archives: A530-505 Good Horses – February 1891 Good horses played a cri…
- 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/…s Lick House Hotel. Writing (6/23/1876) to his fiancée Margaret Russell in New Jersey Walter provides his first impressions of his new partner: “Hislop seems like a very pleasant fellow, he is decidedly English… it won’t take long to naturalize him I think.” Hislop’s impression of Walter was also positive: “I met Walter Vail my partner who is a very nice fellow and seems to be very sharp and quick, knowing what he is about and I think we shall get…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…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….
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…own that I would have been here as long as this I would have gone home [to New Jersey] for a short visit.” A round up of wild horses corralled, 1900. Photo taken by Empire Ranch foreman, Harry Heffner. ERF archives: A536-114 The Empire Herd – May 1877 Back at the Empire Hislop continued to be concerned about the Apaches and reported on the ranching operations (5/6/1877): “They [Apaches] have visited us again and killed two and four more men. Thank…
- Empire Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-land-cattle-company-1883-1887/…General George Crook. Courtesy of Library of Congress. Walter Returns from New Jersey – April 1883 Walter returned from New Jersey in early April to find “that Indian scare is about over with here but so far there have been no steps taken by the Government to stop the trouble there are about 1400 soldiers stationed along the Railroad between Deming and Benson who are drinking up all the whiskey they can get and I suppose are waiting for the Indian…
- 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/…as the English Boys Outfit, despite the fact that Walter Vail hailed from New Jersey. Hislop and Vail only mention this new partner in passing in their letters. Hislop writes (10/22/1876): “At the time I am writing there is a company of soldiers on our ranch camping, in search of Indians. They are about 200 yds. from the house and I am all alone again, as my other two partners have gone to look at some corn fodder which we want for our horses dur…
- Vail & Harvey, 1879-1882
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-harvey-1879-1882/…ep an eye on activities while John Harvey was in England and Walter was in New Jersey. “Everything is going on smooth at the mine. I think the East-drift will be in far enough this week, from what Shaw says to think upon it, it is now running due north. The tunnel is extended 30 ft., and I think within ten days we will strike the load, as the rock is now much more broken up & less difficult to take out. The track iron & cars should be here this we…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…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…
- 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…