The Arizona sentinel., 1891-06-13
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE X gEasEsa Placer 1HSn- laag C0EaaD3HlVs

We, George 0. Glavis, Curtis Coe Bean,
 c. II. Dillingham;, D. K. Allen and J. H. Carpenter, desiring to incorporate ourselves
 under the provisions of the laws of the Ter
 rItory of Arizona, and especially an act of | the Legislative Assembly thereof entitled l "An Act concerning Corporations, ap- 1 proved March & 1887, for the purpose of i engaging in the lawful enterprises. business i pursuit and occupation herein after speci- l fled, do make, subscribe and acknowledge ! according to law in triplicate these Articles of Incorporation and declare:
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 1 The name assumed by this corporation
 and by which 1t shall be known, is the YUMA PLACER MINING COMPANY, and it's principal place of transacting business is the city or town of Yuma and Territory of Arizona; and the time of the commence ment of this corporation shall be the day of the filing of these articles in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Yuma, in the Territory of Arizona. and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 The enterprises, pursuit, business and
 occupation in which this corporation pro-
 poses to engage is that of constructing,
 maintaining, operating dams, acequias,
 canals, dltcheS, Humes, EipeS, cOnduits,
 pumps, hydrants, plugs, reservoirs, aque-
 duets, gates and such other structures and
 appliances as may be necessary and useful
 in turning, conducting, controlling, Ob-
 structing and regulating the flow of water,
 acquiring by location, appropriation, and
 purchase, and Fl any other lawful manner
 whatever water, Water-nghts and fran
 chises, dams, acequiaS, canals, ditches,
 fumes, aqueducts, pipes, conduits, pumps,
 hydrants, plugs, reservoirs, gates and such
 other structures and appliances as may be
 necessary, convenient or useful in turning
 conducting, obStructing, controlling and
 regulating the flow of water, to buy and
 sell water and the Use thereof, for any and
 al purposes, 10 acquire by purchase IOca-
 ton 2ld in any other lawful hammer, real
 estate, lands and ail other kinds of pro,
 perty, real, personal and mixed; to lay out,
 construct, and acquire by purchase, or in
 any other lawful manner, and accept, hold,
 possess, enjoy, operate, use franchises
 from any State 0r Territory of the United
 States, or i'll any county or municipal or private corporations, wagon roads, canals,
 mills, factories, houses, capital stock and
 bonds of corporations, chattels, goods,
 wares and merchandise, chOSeS in action, carrying on the business of banking, in all its branches, receiving money on deposit and paying them out again on the checks and orders of tine depOSit0rs, borrowing and loaning moneys, leasing, buying and sell ing, discounting, holding and dealing in all kinds of negotiable paper, including pro- mlSSOry notes, mortgages, real and personal property, stocks, bonds, city, school, county and TerritoriGI warrants, gold, silver, cop per and lead; and other kinds of bullion and ores, bills of exchange, and all other evidences of debt and bankable paper, and loaning money on good and sufficient security, either personal, collateral or real estate, to be determined by the officers of the this corporation; buying, selling, deal Y, ing in all kinds of property, real, personal and mixed; buying, manufacturing, Oper- ! ating, selling and dealing in electrical ap- | pliances for driving machinery, and as ! motive power Sac propelling any and all [ kinds of mechanical appliances where clec- | tricity is applicable; telephone and teie- ! graph lines, electric lights, transacting any | and all kinds of business which may be | transacted by q natural person; 10 hold, i prove up, use and enjoy the same | and to alienate, sell lease, demise 1 and GispUsG Of the same or any part thereof, as weH as of any other | this corporation possesses, be | seized ofor be entitled to; to borrow money and contract to repay same at such time or times, and with such rate OF rates of inter est as its Board of Directors deem proper and see fit, and to hypOthecate, mortgage or pledge all or any part of the property which this corporation may hereafter ac- quire; to secure payment of such money with interest, or to secure payment Of any ieht of this corporation with such interest thereon as 1t may be legally obligated to pay. il