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  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …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…

  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
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    …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/…

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …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…

  • The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
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    …located in the Westchester/Inglewood area of Los Angeles, near Los Angeles International Airport. The Round House, Los Angeles, ca. 1890 Source: Wikipedia 4th of July Centennial Walter Vail and Herbert Hislop were in Los Angeles at a significant moment in American history – the centennial of Independence Day, July 4, 1876. Many communities across the country planned 3 day celebrations (July 3-5). In Los Angeles, a grand parade, with four divisions…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …I have had one or two scares and that is quite enough for me. We have about 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 bro…

  • The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
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    …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…

  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
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    …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…

  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
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    …Sonoita, Ariz., association president, reported that United States cattle numbers are now close to the record figure of 76,000,000 head, an increase of 1,000,000 in the last year. Boice said the slaughter increased to 28,000,000 head in 1942. He predicted that marketings this year would surpass the 30,000,000-goal set by the secretary of agriculture. Boice cited these figures to prove that cattlemen are doing their best in wartime, but he forecas…

  • Tour the Cienega Watershed
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    …avelStory and select “Tour the Cienega Watershed” to save the tour on your phone. Once you’ve download the app and the tour, no Internet access is needed. The tour includes 21 podcast-style stories 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 feat…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
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    …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…