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- Buildings & Structures
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/buildings-and-structures/…wall on the south side. The stone wall has gate that swings outward to the south. The west end of corral abuts east wall of children’s addition. The gabled roof structure is made of partially peeled logs, and sheathed in corrugated iron sheeting, on one-by-three or one-by-six battens. Around 1915 this area was used to house the stallion. By 1928, this area was not used for horses; it was a woodshed, where firewood was cut and stored. The concrete…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…s more we reached Yuma and camped on the Colorado River, about three miles southwest of the town. The river was rather high owing to an unusual amount of water flowing into it from the Gila which joins it on the north side of the town. The next day we let all of our cowboys go to town to buy some clothing, which some of them needed badly and we gave them free rein to enjoy themselves as they pleased. Of course they did not go all at one time as so…
- 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…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…insect-pest outbreak – favor the rapid development of the screwworm in the southwest, as well as its spread to the north and northeast. The only practical way to protect livestock from screwworms, Dr. Pistor points out is to examine animals frequently so that wounds may be treated before becoming infested, or to doctor infested animals before the maggots have had time to cause serious injury.” [Casa Grande Dispatch, 7/15/1938] The “soot medicine”…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…Boice – 1971 “Approximately 3000 acres of the Arivaca Ranch about 60 miles south of Tucson have been sold to Morton Freedman of Chicago one of the developers of 1900-acre Diamond Bell Ranch 23 miles west of Tucson. In addition Freedman has options to buy another 1900 acres of the ranch from Boice’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry G Boice of Tucson.” [Tucson Citizen, 9/17/1971] Aerial photo of the new Western Slope Feeders feed lot, 1970s. Courtesy of G…
- 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/…Mr. Fish to look at a ranch which belongs to Mr. F. and is about 50 miles south of Tucson, which brings it in the middle of a splendid grazing country which is covered with grass the whole season. Mr. Fish’s title only covers 160 acres but as he has all that water in his section of the country there is very little danger of anyone settling near there… When Mr. Fish took up the ranch four years ago he expected to make it his home but was forced on…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…as 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 all the…
- 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…
- Preservation
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/preservation/…ng Room and Kitchen (2007) Phase 1 emergency repairs to Victorian Addition west gable & wall (2006) Phase 1 & 2 stabilization and roof repairs to South Barn (2006) Maintenance and repairs of Empire Ranch House doors (2006) Repair screened porch screening and paint (2005) Paint Victorian Addition front porch and living room window sills (2005) Phase 3 emergency repairs to Adobe Haybarn NE corner (2004) BLM final approval of adaptive reuse plan for…
- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…e Empire 100 Art Show Empire 100, Nov 2015, p. 2 Fifteen Years of Glorious Western Art, May 2015, p. 1 “Empire 100” Western Art Sale Opens March 29, Feb 2015, p. 1 Empire 100 Art Show & Sale Welcomes Art Lovers at Inviting New Venue, Feb 2014, p. 1 Empire 100 Western Art Show Continues Its Successful Tradition, May 2013, p. 2 Empire Art Show Starts Big!, Feb 2013, p. 1 Empire 100–Great Artworks Spur Great Sales, May 2012, p. 3 Empire 100 Show Open…