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  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
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    …h of his father, Pancho. Anamax logo, 1970s Anamax Purchases Empire Ranch From GAC – 1974 “The purchase price of the Empire Ranch, sold nearly three weeks ago to the Anamax Mining Corp., was $12,808,000, according to a deed filed this week with the County Recorder’s Office. The ranch, of which 47,000 acres remain intact, dates back to the days of Spanish colonialism. GAC Properties of Arizona, Inc., the seller, bought 27,000 acres in 1969 from the…

  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …chase of the Empire Ranch is Recorded; New Owners Get to Work Transfer of Property from Edward N. Fish and Simon Silverburg to W.L. Vail and H.R.Hislop is recorded in Book 3, pages 551-554 in County of Pima, Recorder’s Office, Territory of Arizona. Sale price: $2,000. Vail writes to his brother Ned (8/23/1876): “I have been busy all day making arrangements about getting supplies out to the ranch which is a pretty big job as we have a good many thi…

  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
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    …ning before.” [Dusty Vail Ingram oral history, 1993] Edward Vail photo of brook trout grown in Sabino Creek, planted by Vail and Stratton, 1901. ERF archives: A530-614. Trout in Sabino Canyon – 1916 A newspaper account incorrectly credited Banning for providing a supply of trout to stock Sabino River in Sabino Canyon. “… there is a good supply of the fish in the canyon at the present time that have been bred in from the supply placed in the stream…

  • The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
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    …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…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …hich was taken with the rest of the stock. I went over to receive and help gather 800 cows which we bought from a Mr. Miller, We followed the track of the Indians the next morning into the mountains but found that they outnumbered us and had every advantage in the world over our party, so we concluded to give up the chase. The Indians after taking our horses from the San Pedro they came right over to this part of the country and took horses from a…

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …oll W. Gates, 1909. ERF 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…

  • Tour the Cienega Watershed
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    …tories 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 features along Hwy. 83 ending (or beginning) in Sonoita. And you don’t even have to drive through the watershed to enjoy the tour! You can download the tour to your computer or tablet, listen to…

  • The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
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    …536-030 July 24, 1876 – Back at Fish’s Ranch Hislop writes (8/7/1876): “We rode round the ranch and helped the man to herd his cattle, as we wanted to see what our work would be like and here we stayed for a week, he providing us with horses. It was good for the man and good for us and during our stay little incidents as well as accidents happened.” Riding a bucking horse in an Empire Ranch corral, ca. 1900. Source: ERF archives A536-045 July 25,…

  • Cowboy Festival
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    …ry, edibles – the list goes on and on. Be a Festival Volunteer More than 200 volunteers are needed during the Cowboy Festival, for a minimum four-hour shift. Proceeds from the Cowboy Festival benefit Empire Ranch preservation and educational programs….

  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
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    …onohie, Bill Bailey, Paul Summers, Bob Haverty, Bob Boice and Bill Matus. Front row: Fred Barnett, Mary Boice, Frank Boice, Jo Bailey, Roberto (Junior) Rodriquez, Henry Boice and Frank (Pancho) Boice. Phi Gamma Delta’s officers: Front row, Bob Boice, house manager; Bob Cooney, corresponding secretary. Back row, Bud Schirmer, president; Joe Mulrein, historian, and Tom Fridena, recording secretary. UA Yearbook, 1950 Bob Boice Wins Essay Contest – 19…