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- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…had begun shipping more yearlings and two-year-olds to Warner’s Ranch near San Diego. In fall of 1889, just before the larger ranchers commenced their annual shipments of stock to winter pastures outside Arizona, the Southern Pacific raised its rates to various points in California. Company officials in San Francisco believed Arizona cattle growers could afford a twenty-five percent increase and would have no alternative but to accept it. Men who…
- 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/…took steamer to Los Angeles which took us 3 days and 2 nights touching at Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo and Santa Monica for Los Angeles.” They probably traveled on a Pacific Coast Steamship Company vessel. Pink wing flying fish. Source: Wikipedia Aboard a Pacific Coast Steamship Hislop writes about the voyage to Los Angeles: “While at sea we saw seals and sea lions, a school of whales, some about 75 feet long which came pretty close to the s…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…tors. [The Geuda Springs Herald, 9/25/1903]. The ranch was sold in 1907 to Santa Fe Land Improvement Company, a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railroad. Hutchinson News headline, 1905. Boice Cattle Company Indicted for Illegal Fencing – 1905 In the early 1900s ranchers were adversely affected by increased homesteading activity and some began to install fences on the public lands they used for grazing. In 1905 the federal government decided to act on c…
- 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/…edle-guns constantly with them.” “Mr. Sam Hughes came in from the Sonoita, San Rafael and Santa Cruz settlements on Wednesday, and reports that within six weeks over one hundred head of 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 settle…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…he will find he has got hold of the wrong kind to try that on. Don Alonzo Sanford, 1870s. Courtesy of Pat Garber Neighboring Rancher – May 1877 A neighbor who concerned Walter Vail was Don Alonzo Sanford who owned the Stock Valley Ranch about 5 miles north of the Empire Ranch. Walter did not trust or like the man, as he wrote to Maggie (March 7, 1877): “Our next neighbor Mr. Sanford is married to a Washington girl, we all like her very much and f…
- The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/the-search-for-the-right-ranch-july-14-august-22-1876/…arm in Tucson now it is over a hundred most every day. Last night we had a sandstorm which lasted about forty minutes. There was so much sand and dust in the air that everyone had to retreat to their houses and keep the windows and doors shut while it lasted.” The Happy Valley Ranch was located on the east side of the Rincon Mountains. Image source: An Englishman’s Arizona, 1965 August 7, 1876 – Setting Out for the Happy Valley Ranch Vail writes (…
- 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…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…lots on its Empire ranch property received another setback this week — The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Monday denied a request by GAC to rezone 1,100 acres of holdings in Santa Cruz for residential use. The property is part of GAC’s vast 60,000-acre Empire-Sonoita Area Plan which lies in Santa Cruz and Pima counties. The supervisors are asking assurance that there is sufficient water in the area to support a community the size GAC envis…
- Empire Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-land-cattle-company-1883-1887/…ity with only minor weight losses. Stock certificate for the Whetstone and San Pedro Land and Cattle Company. Whetstone and San Pedro Land and Cattle Company – July 1886 On July 28, 1886, Vail, Rollin R. Richardson, and T. L. Stiles incorporated the Whetstone and San Pedro Land and Cattle Company with 640 patented acres of range previously held by Richardson south of Benson on the San Pedro River. The following year, Richardson sold his interest t…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…- 1943 The San-Pima Cattlemen’s Association, consisting of cattlemen from Santa Cruz and Pima counties, met at the Santa Rita Hotel. Boice family members played key roles at this meeting. “Frank Boice, president of the American National Livestock Association, will be the principal speaker on the program and is expected to bring before the cattlemen many of the new problems which face the cattle industry due to war time demands and curtailments. H…