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- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…urces, May 2007, p. 4 The Empire Ranch Makes Great Reading, Feb 2007, p. 3 New: Index to Newsletters, Nov 2005, p. 4 Natural Resources Tour LCNCA and the Cienega Watershed, June 2023, p. 3 Celebrating 20 Years of Shared Conservation Stewardship, December 2020, p. 1 Healing Rains, Sep 2017, p. 3 Sawmill Fire Scorches Las Cienegas Area, June 2017, p. 1 Christmas Snow Blankets the Empire Ranch, Mar 2017, p.1 Cottonwoods, more than just a backdrop, Ju…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…archives: A540-009 Carroll W. Gates (1860-1920) Carroll Gates was born in New York in 1860 and moved at an early age with his family to California. Educated in the San Jose area he first worked for David Jack’s Pacific Grove Resort at Monterey from 1880 to 1887. In 1887 he moved to Los Angeles to deal in real estate with A. E. Pomeroy. He knew nothing about ranching, but his strong business and investment background proved extremely helpful to Wa…
- 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/…o partner with Walter in a ranching venture in Arizona. Herbert arrived in New York on May 23, 1876 aboard the ship “The Queen.” In a letter (6/16/1876) to his sister Amy, he stated that he went “…through the custom house satisfactorily, though they stopped my gun and rifle and made me swear a lot of stuff about my having used it, etc.” He stayed in the New York area for a fortnight seeing the sights and spending time with Nathan and his wife Anna…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…to help you I will willingly do.” By June Hislop had embarked by ship from New York to London. Walter wrote: “I have been so busy for the past 10 days that I have not had time to do anything outside of the cattle, but I am glad to say that we are through with the hardest of the work. We have been counting the cattle and branding the young calves of which there are about 200 head which is an increase since we branded last fall. Hislop will probably…
- 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/…s afternoon fore I only had to pay $75. I don’t know what it would cost in New York but I suppose $25 would be a big price.” There is to be a grand feast in Tucson which will commence the 28th of this month and will last ten days. It is a Catholic feast which is gotten up by the Mexicans, there are thousands here every year from Mexico who come on purpose to attend the feast and gamble. I am in hopes we will get away from this place before the fea…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…ted 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, 6/5/1970] In September the P&Z Commission “The Pima County Planning and Zoning Commission yesterday approved the GAC Properties, Inc….
- Vail & Harvey, 1879-1882
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-harvey-1879-1882/…81 married 26-year-old Alice Maud Annand. The newlyweds arrived by ship in New York on May 12, 1881, and probably arrived in Arizona by train. Total Wreck Mine scaffolding & car for ore transport, ca. 1890. Nathan Vail Visits the Total Wreck and Empire Ranch – April 1881 Walter Vail’s uncle Nathan was in Arizona in April and wrote to Walter about progress at the Total Wreck and on the Empire Ranch. Nathan most likely made the trip to keep an eye o…
- Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/…t neither lean nor limpy, Kirk Douglas. Anything but a typical saddle bum, New York born Douglas rose through Broadway to tough dramatic roles, now heads his own movie company. His co-star is Oscar-winning Anthony Quinn, a man able and willing to say more than “they went thataway” at the drop of a sombrero.” [Arizona Daily Star, 4/4/1958] The photo illustrating this post resulted when Mary Boice suggested to Mary and Bob Bowman, who had been brand…
- 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 Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-land-cattle-company-1883-1887/…General George Crook. Courtesy of Library of Congress. Walter Returns from New Jersey – April 1883 Walter returned from New Jersey in early April to find “that Indian scare is about over with here but so far there have been no steps taken by the Government to stop the trouble there are about 1400 soldiers stationed along the Railroad between Deming and Benson who are drinking up all the whiskey they can get and I suppose are waiting for the Indian…