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- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…ds, water rights, desert land claims, improvements, machinery, etc., range rights controlling 800,000 acres of government lands – $150,000 27,000 stock cattle in Arizona ($15) – $405,000 8,688 shares of Chiricahua Cattle Company stock ($30) – $260,640 5163 head of steer on Panhandle ranch ($25) – $129,075 Santa Rosa Islands cliffs and seashore, ca. 1901. ERF archives: A530-578a Vail & Vickers Purchase Santa Rosa Island – June 1901 “The majority of…
- 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/…lls and natural bridges which had been formed by water and time. This went right between two high mountains and was about 20 ft. wide. It was the most picturesque and romantic place I think I ever saw. We returned to the ranch at about 4:30 p.m. and partook of another sumptuous meal of dried venison and baked flour and water, and then the same programme as the night before.” Historical note – though Hislop and Vail did not purchase the Happy Valle…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…cross that we could only work around them on horseback. One cow chased me right through the kitchen window, and another one chased one of our men and your old boy right through the house, but I am glad to say that the worst of the work is over with now and I hope to have more time to write to my friends.” Map of Arizona and New Mexico Territories. Wikimedia. Who Will Go for the Bulls – March 1877 By the end of March the “Indian troubles” had sett…
- 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/…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
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/…
- 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…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…it is the only way I know to make men out of them.’” “And we got along all right. The worst thing that happened was when Frank broke his hand and had to ride 40 miles to get it put in a cast. On his way back he intended to stay with one of the Indian Agents, at his camp overnight but when he got there the man was gone and left no grub cooked; so Frank had to cook his supper – with one hand. He even had to make bread and he told me about it afterwa…
- Hours, Map & Directions
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/visit/hours-map-directions/…eft. Directions from Sonoita Go north on Route 83 for 6.6 miles, to the paved road on your right between milepost 39 and 40. Watch for brown Historic Empire Ranch sign on the right side of the highway. Turn east (right) onto paved road and follow for 3 miles to the Empire Ranch House on your left….
- Map & Directions
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/contact/directions/…ur left. From Sonoita Go north on Route 83 for 6.6 miles, to the paved gravel road on your right between milepost 39 and 40. Watch for brown Historic Empire Ranch sign on the right side of the highway. Turn east (right) onto paved road and follow for 3 miles to the Empire Ranch House on your left….