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- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…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., Empire Ranch area plan but adde…
- 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/…ranch which I am sorry to say is very soon answered as we haven’t bought any stock yet of any account we have a small band of between 600 & 700 sheep and about 50 head of horses & colts, but we are trying to buy cattle which we expect to stock the place with them & don’t intend to do much in the horses or sheep business.” Herbert Hislop probably used Room 1 or Room 3 as his quarters. Walter Vail occupied the other room of the original four-room s…
- 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…
- 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/…is place for just what the improvements cost which is $3800 which would be cheap for the place if anyone was prepared to put 300 good Texas improved cows on it which would cost about $16 per head. If McCartney had stayed with me in the cattle business we might have taken up enough land on water to feed 10,000 head of cattle… I think it will be better for me to go back to Virginia City where I can make a living…” Note that Fish was offering to sell…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…ou why we are hard up just at the present time. but I don’t think we have any reason to complain of our losses as there have been so many that have met with heavy losses on account of the heavy rains we have had of late but we ought not to complain as it has given us grass for a year.” Ad for Tracy Bolman’s dry good store. Netawaka Reporter, 9/15/1899 Hoping Ned Will Join the Partnership – August 1878 Walter also expresses his hope that his brothe…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…oll Gates, took over as general manager of the Empire Land and Cattle Company, the Pauba Ranch Company, and other miscellaneous investments previously held in partnership with Vail, until its ownership under Walter’s estate could be settled. [Gregory Dowell, History of the Empire Ranch, 1978] Margaret Vail, ca. 1910. Margaret always wore black after Walter’s death. ERF archives: A530-77a Margaret and the Children Regroup – 1907 “Dusty” Vail Ingram…
- Tour the Cienega Watershed
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/2023/04/tour-the-cienega-watershed/…tories 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 features along Hwy. 83 ending (or beginning) in Sonoita. And you don’t even have to drive through the watershed to enjoy the tour! You can download the tour to your computer or tablet, listen to…
- 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/…rices than 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 recen…
- Cowboy Festival
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/ranch-events/cowboy-festival/…gift certificates for hotel stays or golf play; restaurant gift certificates; instruments; weekend getaways; time spent with well-known artist; baskets filled with goodies; handcrafted items; books; children’s toys; vacation home for a week; professional services, tickets to an entertainment or sporting event; jewelry, edibles – the list goes on and on. Be a Festival Volunteer More than 200 volunteers are needed during the Cowboy Festival, for a m…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…Ranch. “About 75 Tucson men and women were hired as extras during the company’s stay here. An equal number of construction workers were hired to help build three sets used.” [Tucson Citizen, 11/21/1949] The movie was released in 1950. Around the campfire at Rosemont, 1940s. ERF archives: (B350-93) Corporate Changes and Land Sales – 1950 In May 1950 the Chiricahua Ranches Limited Partnership was reformed once more. Henry G. and Frank S. Boice were…