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- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…San Pedro and Santa Cruz rivers. Map of the New River in Imperial County, California. Courtesy of California Department of Water Resources. Calexico and New River – March 1890 The next afternoon we bid goodbye to Mr. Allen and the Colorado Valley and drove out 10 miles and camped for the night. The next morning early we were on our way and about afternoon reached the first watering place that Mr. Allen had referred to. After looking at it we deci…
- 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 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/…be like and here we stayed for a week, he providing us with horses. It was good for the man and good for us and during our stay little incidents as well as accidents happened.” Riding a bucking horse in an Empire Ranch corral, ca. 1900. Source: ERF archives A536-045 July 25, 1876 – Hislop’s “Little Accident” Hislop writes (8/7/1876): “The little accident that occurred was I happened to get on a bucking horse and no sooner I was on his back than he…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…hall brand and earmark them. From what I see riding round now, there are a good number. Our band of horses consists of 20 brood mares and 16 horse and mule colts, yearlings, and 9 saddle horses at present. Only 4 this year’s colts but expect to have about 16 to 20 making close on 50 head of horse stock.” Sheep herding on Santa Rosa Island, 1900s. Photo taken by Edward L. Vail. ERF archives: A530-571a Pesky Neighbors – May 1877 Later in May Hislop…
- Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/…sale of the Empire to Gulf American was announced. GAC “… associates from Florida, California and locally have been discussing plans with the county engineers, sanitation and planning and zoning officials. The Tucson engineering firm of Cella Barr have four men currently working at the site. Gulf American plans include an entire city, with a central business district, industrial sites, multiple housing and homes ranging from three to one per acre…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…lide shows at club meetings. “Mrs. Frank Boice will show colored slides of flowers and other flowering plants. Of special Interest will be the cactus flowers showing the flowers in detail.” [Arizona Daily Star, 4/13/1941] “From 1935 to 1946 meetings [of the Tucson Garden Club] were held in the Fiesta Room of the Santa Rita Hotel on Scott Street. Methods of gardening in the desert area have always been a high priority, but during the WWII years the…
- 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/…is, a fellow may as well live comfortably while he can. I have had a jolly good long time of discomfort now. Coal is not known in the territory, so we always burn wood which makes very jolly warm fires, but it is so abominably hard to cut. It is called mesquite and bears large quantities of beans which fatten the cattle very much.” Cottonwoods along the San Pedro River. Courtesy of Bureau of Land Management. Searching for Cattle and More Indian Tr…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…ed as a stage station on a government homestead lying along the trail from Fort Thomas to Fort Grant by George Stevens in the early 1870’s… The old stage station still the Eureka’s main ranch house, was buiIt in stockade fashion, around a central courtyard, as defense against the Apaches who coveted its cool, clear little spring of water which rises nearby…” [Arizona Highways, March, 1945, pp. 31-35]. Initially the ranch was stocked with commercia…
- 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/…ng fish. These are most peculiar things, having gauze wings like a dragon-fly and sometimes fly a long way. I saw one fly 40 yards. It was about 1 1/2 pounds weight. The waters of the Pacific Ocean seem to abound in living things and living wonders to me. I had the pleasure of being seasick again.” Pico House, Los Angeles, CA, 1891 Source: Wikipedia Englishmen Everywhere Hislop writes from the Pico House, Los Angeles (7/3/1876): “On board we met…
- The Trip from Los Angeles to Tucson (July 5-13, 1876)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/the-trip-from-los-angeles-to-tucson-july-5-13-1876/…o. Store in Florence, AZ, built in 1867. Source: Wikimedia July 11, 1876 – Florence, Arizona Territory Hislop writes: “Arrived at Florence at 4:30 a.m. and had breakfast in hotel at 6 a.m. The hotel, like all the other houses, is built of mud, there being no bedrooms, people sleeping out of doors and under trees wrapped in their blankets. We were obliged to stay here a day and a night as we missed the other stage that connected at Florence for Tuc…