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- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…About 50 percent is bred in Arizona and shipped to Southern California as feeders. These feeders, when fattened here, are killed for local consumption. About 25 per cent of the beef consumed in Southern California is born, bred and fattened here. Both in consumption and output Southern California is not much affected by Northern California conditions. [Los Angeles Times, 1/27/1904] Pauba Ranch cowboys by the railroad tracks south of the Murrieta…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…as called about a fire, the whole community would turn out. Ilene [Sam’s wife] says she sure learned how to use a wet gunny sack and a flapper, as did the whole community.” [http://sefd911.org/sam-frazier/] Holdings of the two ranches. Chiricahua Ranches Limited Partnership Dissolved – 1951 On December 31, 1951 the Chiricahua Ranches Limited Partnership was dissolved. Henry and Margaret Boice became the sole owners of the Arivaca Ranch and Frank a…
- Buildings & Structures
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/buildings-and-structures/…Man’s House This single-story, two-room, single-pile, rectangular plan, 40-feet by 14-feet, was constructed in the early 20th century from adobe bricks. The end-gabled roof is covered in corrugated metal. Mariano Ferra lived in the house starting in 1927, with his wife and granddaughter, Eva Ferra Jimenez. Eva recalled that others lived there before her grandparents. The house did not exist in ca. 1885 photographs, but it was there by 1920. Huachu…
- 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…
- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…19, p. 2 Celebrating Empire Vaqueros and Cowboys, May 2014, p. 2 Visit and Learn, Feb 2014, p. 4 Celebrating the Cowboy, Aug 2013, p. 2 Cowboy Exhibit Items Needed, Aug 2013, p. 2 “Cowboy Life” exhibit Awarded Matching Grant, May 2013, p. 2 Heritage Discovery Trail Eagle Scout Projects, September 2023, p. 3 2019 NPLD Accomplishments, Dec 2019, p. 3 Youth in Wilderness Program, Aug 2014, p. 3 Heritage Discovery Trail Enhancements, Nov 2009, p.3 Pro…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…Tucson.” [Tucson Citizen, 9/17/1971] Aerial photo of the new Western Slope Feeders feed lot, 1970s. Courtesy of Grant Boice More Business Expansion – 1971-1973 Pancho and Bob Boice formed a partnership with Bill Laramore, named Laramore and Boice, for feeding cattle, finishing them at the M & M Feedlot (Later K Bar Feedlot) in Greeley, Colo. This replaced the Boice & Boice partnership. Bob and Pancho bought McArthur’s interest in the M & M Feedlot…
- Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/…y Boice created the Empire Ranch Partnership with sons Frank Stephen and wife Sherry and Robert Grantham and wife Miriam. Ann Kelley Boice, 1952. Arizona Daily Star photograph. Fred Boice Graduates and Marries – 1952 Fred Boice graduated from Occidental College in 1952 with a degree in economics. He and Ann Kelley celebrated their engagement in May and were married on December 23, 1952 in the First Congregational Church in Tucson. Ann Kelley first…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…le buying expertise. “In February 1891 a stranger dropped off a west-bound Santa Fe train in the little town of Holbrook in Arizona. He was a quiet, gentlemanly chap, dressed in decidedly ‘dude’ clothes for those days. A soft felt hat…most immaculate linen, Oxfords, colored socks marked him at once as a stranger in a strange land.” After a night’s rest Henry S. told the local barkeeper that he was interested in purchasing two-year-old steers. “…de…
- Special Recreation Permits
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/visit/visiting-policies/special-recreation-permits/…lication interview checklist to use Public Lands (BLM): Are you charging a fee? Do you expect to make money on the event or is the fee to cover expenses? Will there be a competition? Will you advertise? How many people do you expect to attend? Are you an organized group? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may need a permit from the BLM. Please review BLM’s Special Recreation Permits web page and contact BLM/Tucson Field Office, (…
- Empire Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-land-cattle-company-1883-1887/…wood, Barton County. Both counties were close to the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad lines. Shipping costs to Kansas were high, but Vail fared well because the Heart cattle survived the final trip to market in Kansas City with only minor weight losses. Stock certificate for the Whetstone and San Pedro Land and Cattle Company. Whetstone and San Pedro Land and Cattle Company – July 1886 On July 28, 1886, Vail, Rollin R. Richardson, and T. L….