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- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…t 800 head of cattle on the ranch, all cows, and Vail has just gone to New Mexico to buy about 40 good blooded bulls which he will bring here as soon as possible. I do not know how many calves we have at present but shall know by November, as then we shall 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 pr…
- 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…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…e. Empire Ranch Foundation. Drought – 1890 Fred Paine, a California cattle buyer, wrote about his cattle buying expedition in the 1890’s when he found the area in the grip of a drought. He arrived at the railway shipping point of Pantano, about twenty miles east of Tucson, and found an ordinary station house and a small wooden shack about a hundred yards away, about 10’ x 12’. These were the “shipping yards” from which most of the Empire cattle we…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…nments worked together to control an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Mexico. A quarantine line was established across the part of Mexico affected by the outbreak and U.S. personnel assisted with the vaccination of cattle to eradicate the disease. Austin Moss, a southern Arizona cowboy, described his work in remote areas of Jalisco. The vaccine had to be kept cold so they used popsicles “… to keep the vaccine cold. And then we’d go to the rea…
- 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/…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/…Railroad Station, 1907. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. A Legendary Cattle Buyer Will C. Barnes shared the following story about Henry S. Boice’s cattle buying expertise. “In February 1891 a stranger dropped off a west-bound Santa Fe train in the little town of Holbrook in Arizona. He was a quiet, gentlemanly chap, dressed in decidedly ‘dude’ clothes for those days. A soft felt hat…most immaculate linen, Oxfords, colored socks marked him at once a…
- 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/…ntry but have not been able to do anything until this morning which was to buy a mule which is just the thing.” Empire Ranch landscape, taken in July 2015 by Sally Reichardt. Source: ERF archives D601-223 July 15, 1876 – From Tucson to Fish’s Ranch Hislop writes: “Started for Fish’s ranch, at 8 a.m., 52 miles from Tucson, one of us riding on horseback and the other in a buggy with the owner, Fish, who had a fine pair of horses. The horse we rode t…
- Empire Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-land-cattle-company-1883-1887/…les – April 1886 In 1886 Geronimo’s warriors were crossing the border from Mexico again. It was to be the last of their raids before Geronimo’s final surrender in September 1886. The Vail’s were in Los Angeles when Mary E. Nickoll wrote to Margaret Vail [4/30/1886] about recent raids: “Dear friend, being as everything is in the greatest excitement over the Indians I will drop you a few lines thinking you and Mr. Vail would like to know that everyt…
- 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/…876, Los Angeles, California Herbert Hislop and Walter Vail purchase stage tickets from Indian Wells (now Indio) California to Tucson Arizona. Hislop describes the celebrating underway on 4th of July eve. “They were letting off fireworks and firing anvils in the streets. The way they fire anvils is this, they bury one anvil in the ground, the bottom side uppermost and fill the little square hole with gunpowder, placing the other anvil on the top…