The Arizona sentinel., 1888-12-22
Articles of incorporation of the nohawk Ranch
 Company.

ourselves under the provisions of the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and especially of an act of the Leg islative Assembly thereof entitled An Act Concerning Corporations, approved March 8. 1887, for the purpose of engaging in the business and enterprise hereinafter do make, subscribe and sc. knowledge in triplicate these Articles of Incorporation.
 ARTICLEI.
 The name of this incorporation and by which it shall be hereafter known is the "Mohawk Ranch Company" and its principal place for transacting bus mess is Mohawk Ranch, pear Mohawk section house, on the Southern Pacific Rail road, in the County, of Yuma. Territory of Arizona.
 ARTICLE II.
 The business and enterprise which this Corporation purposes to engage in sEall be to acquire by purchase, location, or in any other lawful manner, real estate, lands and all other kinds of property, real, personal or mixed, and to improve and sell the same; to borrow or loan money and receive mort gages upon lands, and to carry on the busi- ness of banking in all its branches; to buy and sell merchandise, andconduct and carry on mercantile business in all it's branches; to acquire water by location or purchase, and to construct and maintain dams, canals, ditches, pipes and reservoirs for conducting, and distributing the same; to buildings and warehouses, and held, occapy, buy and sell the same; to con- struct roads and maintain the same; to erect, operate and maintain telegraph and telephone lines; to mortgage, hypothecate or pledge any of the property of this corpo- ration; to do and transact any and all kinds of business which may be transacted by 8 natural person.
 ARTICLE III.
 The amount of the capital stock of this shall be Three Hundred Thous- md Dollars, (s3OO, ,OOO) divided into Sixty Thousand (60, ,0OO) shares, of the par value ,f Five (5) Dollars share, and the same shall be non .assessable, and the said capital 'tock shall be paid iR at the time and under .he conditions ordered and authorized by the Board of Directors of this corporation.
 ARTICLE ".
 The time of the commencement of this shall be the day of the filing of ,hese Articles in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Yuma, Territory ,f Arizona, and shall terminate (56) Fifty years thereafter.
 ARTICLE V.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent, to which ,his corporation is at any time to be subject s the sum of One Hundred and Fifty (l5O, ,OOO) Dollars.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which this corporation is at any time to subject itself is the sum of Que Hun fred and Fifty Thousand (l50, ,0O0) Dollars.
 ARTICLE VII. The affairs of this corporation shall be con- iucted by Board of Directors com posed of not more than five (5) persons nor ess than three (3) persons, who shall be elected annually by the stockholders and ,hall hold office for one year and until their Iuccessors are elected and qualified. The lime and manner of said election shall be provided for in the By Laws of said Corpo- .atien.
 Said Directors shall be subscribers to he capital stock of said corporation, and 10 person shall be eligible to said office Inless he be stockholder in the Corpora 'ion, and any person ceaseing to be sub- 'criber shall cease to be Director, and hereafter if any Director shall cease to be a he shall cease to be Director. The Board of Directors of this corpora ,ion shall have power to establish By avs and make all rules and regulations necessary for the management of the affairs ,f this corporation and the officers thereof. The following named persons, who are subscribers to the capital stock of this shall constitute it's Board of Directors for the first three months follow ng and immediately after the day of the fling of these Articles in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and until their sue ,essors are duly elected and qualified, to- wit: Samuel Knox, w. K. Mcfarland md Samuel Purdy.
 ARTICLE VIII.
 The stockholders and their private prop. ,rty shall be exempt from the corporate lebts of this corporation.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have lereunto set our hands and seals this 18th lay of December. A. D. 1888. Executed n triplicate.
 W. K. MCFARLAND. [sEAL]
 JOHN GANDoLFo, [sEALl
 SAMUEL PURDY. sEAL]
 TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
 County of Yuma, '0' Before me, E. B. Wagy, Notary Public n and for the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, this day personally appeared W. X. Mcfarland, John Gandolfo and Samuel ourdy known to me to he the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing and each of them acknowledged