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- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…houses complete; all wagons, harness, etc. The stock has been renewed from time to time by the best animals procurable.” The estimated value of Santa Rosa Island was $273,103. Barcelo & Verdugo letterhead. ERF archives. Personnel Problems – August 1898 A letter from Barcelo & Verdugo, proprietors of a general store in nearby Greaterville, responding to Empire Ranch foreman, Hadden McFadden, provides a glimpse into interactions between the Empire R…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…want to stay in a country and it seems to me nothing but trouble the whole time, how things are going to tum out time alone will prove.” By March he was thinking of leaving: “ I am going to try to sell out, as we are losers by the operation already and our neighbours are very troublesome and about the lowest men I have ever had to do anything with, condescending to do the meanest things that are possible and everything that is likely to injure us,…
- 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…
- 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/…tty comfortably in them. I have also made some blinds for my room and next time I go to Tucson I intend to buy some stuff for curtains, as my maxim 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…
- 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/…es 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 recent p…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…pted by its aggressive marketing efforts including: ”Millions of vacation “tickets” to the Tucson-Nogales area are being distributed 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/…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…as 17, Charley was 10 and I was 19. Father said we’d be there until school time in September. Before he ·left, I overheard a conversation between him and Fred – who had come to buy some cattle. He said to Father, ‘Henry, aren’t you afraid to leave these boys out here in this big open country by themselves all summer? Something might happen to them.’ And Father replied, ‘Yes, Fred, I am somewhat afraid, but it is the only way I know to make men out…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…led: “Sometimes we would rope… I have roped so much on a horse that by noontime he’d just had it. We’d rope sometimes 5 or 6 animals a day, but I’d have to change horses. [We used] that soot medicine (black).. [Gordon Cooper oral history, 1991] A 1938 newspaper article noted: “The screwworm fly, which lays its eggs on wounds of livestock, is starting earlier than ever before and many more are expected as the weather grows warmer. The weather and o…
- Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/…e interested in a similar project in the Sonoita area. ‘We’ve talked about buying that ranch, but there are other firms that are also interested in buying it. Mr. Boice has not made any commitment to us.’” [Tucson Daily Citizen, 10/30/1969] In December the 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…
- 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/…stayed in the New York area for a fortnight seeing the sights and spending time with Nathan and his wife Anna Vail and with Walter’s brother Edward (Ned). From New York City he traveled up the Hudson River to Albany. After visiting Niagara Falls he traveled by train to Chicago where he waited for Nathan Vail. They “…journeyed on together to San Francisco which took us exactly 5 days and 5 nights constant travelling, sleeping all the time on the Pu…