100 Years of Boswell

1965 P/M News Letter featuring the Corcoran Feed Yard

finally pumped out, the company was back in full swing, ready for a successful 1972 crop.

The early 1970s were a time of big changes and new opportunities for Boswell. In 1971, the company dipped its toes into the energy world by creating Tulago of Colorado, Inc., and teaming up to explore gas wells in Colorado. Back in Arizona, Boswell sold most of its land to Del Webb’s Devco to help make room for the growing Sun City community. Not long after, Boswell also sold its interest in the Coolidge gins, leaving just the Waddell and Selma gins operating in Arizona.

By the mid-1970s, more land was coming under the Boswell umbrella. Buena Vista Farms lease (acquired in 1959 from

Flooded gins in the Tulare Lake Basin area during 1967 flood

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