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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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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/…wned them out. He was ill with fever and got disgusted so let us have them cheap. We gave him 4/-a head, that is cheap enough and they come in very handy to us as meat and when we can get 50 lbs. of meat for 4/-it is not so bad. I think we shall sell them soon for 9/-apiece so if we do, it will not be a bad trade. One day when I was baking my bread I had left the kitchen for a moment to do something and when I returned I caught a snake under the s…
- 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/…gether to San Francisco which took us exactly 5 days and 5 nights constant travelling, sleeping all the time on the Pullman sleeping cars. You cannot form any idea what size America is until you begin to run on the railway which takes 7 days and 7 nights from New York to San Francisco.” Lick House, Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Source: Wikimedia Commons 6/23/1876 – San Francisco, California Walter Vail meets Herbert R. Hislop in San Francisco’…
- Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/…he Association. (l-r) Bob and Grant Boice, 1960s. ERF archives: B203-09 American Society of Range Management – 1960 Bob Boice became chairman of the American Society of Range Management, Arizona Section. His involvement with ASRM began in 1958 when became secretary. That same year he was elected secretary of the Gila County Cattlegrowers Association. Google Earth view of the former Empire Ranch Airstrip, 2021. Airstrip at Empire Ranch – 1960s Some…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…culture. Boice cited these figures to prove that cattlemen are doing their best in wartime, but he forecast “dark days” ahead for the United States overall food production program because of what he said was failure of federal bureaucracies to coordinate their efforts. ‘Petty jealousies and inordinate ambitions are found in too many places,’ Boice declared. ‘The political partisan and social reformer are still at work and the old army game of buck…
- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…Ranch Story on Your Newsstands, Aug 2004, p. 4 Empire Ranch Makes the Big Times, Aug 2003, p. 2 Internet Debut for empireranchfoundation.org, Aug 2001, p. 3 Volunteers Thank You Volunteers!, June 2024, p. 3 Volunteers: The Lifeblood of the Foundation, March 2024, p. 1 Outreach and Gift Shop Coordinators Needed, March 2024, p. 3 Eagle Scout Projects, September 2023, p. 3 Volunteers—the Heart of the Foundation, March 2023, p. 2 Our Valued Volunteer…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…y Herald, Amarillo, Texas, 6/26/1908] CCC Headquarters, 1885. Arizona Historical Society and Steven M. Brophy Chiricahua Cattle Company (CCC) – 1908 By 1908 Henry Boice was also managing of the Chiricahua Cattle Company (CCC) which established in the 1870s in the Sulphur Springs Valley of SE Arizona. The CCC had been sold to a group of Texas investors in 1909 by J.V. Vickers and his partners. Henry Boice persuaded the controlling partners to purch…