Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-05
WINES AND LIoUoRs-wAoLEsALE.
INCORPORATION,
Articles Of incorporation.
ARTICLE I.

The name of this corporal on shall be The Lake
Superior and Red River Valley Railroad Company
and its object and the general nature of its business
is the surveying locating building and construction
of single double track railroad, from the State
line between the State of Minnesota and the State OF
Wisconsin, at some feasible point in township No
148 of range Is, west OF the fourth principal NERD
ian, in general northwestwardly direction, by the
most feasible route by way OF the mouth OF the
Cloguet river in st. Louis county, Lake Whine
goghish, Cass lake and Leach lake, in Cass and
Itasca counties, and Red Lake Falls and Crookstor
in Polk county, to Red River of the North, in neal
township No. 14) of range 40, in said county of Polk
Minnesota; and all such side-tracks, turn-outs, depot
grounds, depots, warehouses, elevators, machine
shops and car manufactures and other appendages
as it may deem suitable and convenient for the use
and operation of said railroad, and the operation
thereof in receiving, storing and shipping freight
and in the transportation of passengers and freigh;
over said railroad.
ARTICLE II.
The time of commencement of said corporation
shall be the hrteth day Of December 1879, and the
period for the continuance of the same shall be fifty
years.
The principal pace of transactng tho business of
said corporation shall DO the city of Crookston, i'll
the county of Polk, in the State of Minnesota.
ARTICLE ".
The amount of capital stock of said corporation
shall be five million dollars, which shall be paid i'll
such installments the board of directors shall
from time to time determine, no installment to ex-
coed ten per centum, shall assessments therefor
be made oftener than once in thirty days.
ARTICLE v.
The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to
which said corporation shall at any time be subject
is three million dollars.
ARTICLE VI.
The names and places Of residence of the persons
forming such association for incorporation. are
Morris r. Brown, Thomas G. Shapleigh, Frank
Ives, John Frederick, Arthur Yoernault, George
Croker, E. B. Ellsworth and William NJ. Ross of
Polk county. Minnesota, James Barden and Irwin
w. Gates of the county of Douglass in the State of
Wisconsin, and Isaiah Gervais of Red Lake Falls,
Polk county, Minnesota.
ARTICLE VII.
The names of the first board of directors of said
CORPORATION are Morris Il. Brown, Thomas q. Shap-
leigh. Frank Ives, John Frederick, Arthur Yoer-
nault, George Crocker, E. Il. Ellsworth, William M.
Ross and Isaiah Gervas of Polk county, Minnesota
and James Parden and Irwin W. Gates OF the
county of Douglass, in the State of Wisconsin.
The government Of this corporation and the man.
ageent of its affairs shall be YES ed in the board OF
directors, to consist of not less than nine nor more
than eleven in humble and VINO shail DC elected by
ballot by the stockholders annually, on the first
Tuesday in June in each year and president, vice
president, secretary and treasurer shall be elected
annually by the board of directors, provided that
for the purpose of tho first organization Of such
board said officers shall be elected by the present
board of directors the 30th day of December 1879
ARTICLE VIII.
The number and amount of the shares in the
capital stock of said corporation shall be one hum
bred thousand shares of fifty dollars each.
In witness whereof we have hereunte set
hands and seals this 9th day of December, 1879.
Signed and sealed in presence of
JOHN MCLEAN,
HENRY ZIMMERMANN.