The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1891-12-05
ARTICLES OF incorporation OF The
YUMA FRUIT COMPANY.

Know We, that we, Edwin A. Wetmore
John I'll. Carpenter and Elisha NJ Sanford
residents of the Territory of Arizona, anc
Earl B. Coe and Fred Z. Coe, residents o.
the State of Colorado, desiring to erect {
corporation under and by virtue of the
laws of the Territory of Arizona, for the
purpose of engaging in the lawful enter
prise, business pursuits and occupation
hereinafter mentioned do hereby make
subscribe and acknowledge these articles Of
incorporation and declare:
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The name assumed by this corporation
and by which 1t shall be known is the
Yuma Fruit Company, and the principal
place of business shall be the County OF
Yuma, Territory of Arizona, with branch
Office at the City of Denver, in the state oil
Colorado.
The enterprises, pursuits and business
occupation in which this corporation pro-
poses to engage is as follows, namely gen.
eral fruit, agricultural, gardening, mer-
chandise and stockraising business; and to
buy sell, lease, let, hold, acquire and con-
vey water, water rights and the use OF
water, land and all other kinds of property,
real, personal, chattels, real and mixed,
convenient and useful for the purposes
aforesaid; and to ALLEVIATE, sell, lease,
mortgage, pledge, hypothecate and dis
pose of the same or any part thereof.
III.
The amount Of the capital stock Of this
corporation shall be FIVE hundred Thousand
dollars $500, OOO), divided into fifty thous.
and &c, OOO) shares Of the par value of ten
($lO) dollars each, and the time when, and
the conditions upon which said capital
stock is to be paid is as follows, to-wit;
The whole thereof Immediately upon max
ing the subscription therefor, and said
stock shall be fully paid before being is
sued and worcestershire thereafter,
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The time of the commencement of this
corporation shall be on the day of the filing
Of these articles of this corporation in the
office of the County Recorder of the county
of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and the
termination of said corporation shall be
twenty-five (25) years thereafter.
V,
The affairs of this corporation are to be
and they shall be conducted by a Board of
Directors consisting of five person who
shall be elected annually by the stock
holders at such time and in such manner as
shall be prescribed by the bylaws of this
corporation and all Of whom shall be sub
scribers to the capital stock thereof. The
following named persons who are SUBJ
scribers to the capital stock of this corpor-
alton, shall constitute the Board of Direc-
tors of this corporation until the third
Monday in October, A. D. 1892, and until
their successors are duly elected and quail
fed, to-wit Edwin A. Wetmore, Earl B.
Coe, Fred Z. Coe, John H. Carpenter and
Elisha M. Sanford.
VI.
The highest amount of Indebtedness di-
rect or contingent to which this corporation
is at any time to be subjected or to subject
itself, is the sum of three hundred thous-
and dollars ($3OO,00Ol.
VII.
The stockholders of this corporation
and their private property, shall be exempt
from the corporate debts of this corporation.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto
set our hands and seals this oath day of
November, A. D. 1891.
EDWIN A. WETMoRE, Seal
JOHN H. CARPENTER. (Seal.)
ELISHA NJ. SANFORD, (SeaL)
EARL B. Coz, iSeal)
FRED Z. Coz. (Seal')
Territory of Arizona,
County of Yuma
Before me, Charles Il. Brinley, Clerk of
the District Court of the Third Judicial
District of the Territory of Arizona, in
and for the County of Yuma, on this day
personally appeared Edwin A. Wetmore,
Earl B. Coe, Fred E. Coe, John II. Carpen-
ter and Elisha M. Sanford, known to me to
be the persons whose names are subscribed
to the foregoing instrument, and they each
duly acknowledged to me that they and
each of them severally executed the same
for the purposes and consideration therein
expressed.
Given under my hand and seal of said
court this oath day of November, A. D.
1891
[SeaLI G. H. BRINLEY,
Clerk Dist. Court, Sd Judicial Dist, Terri
tory Arizona, County of Yuma.
Recorded at the request of ]. II. Car
penter, November oath, 1891, at To- min
utes past o'clock p. m.
J. L. REDONDo, County Recorder.
Territory of Arizona, :.
County of Yuma. S.
l, ]. L. Redondo, County Recorder in
and for theCounty of Yuma, Territory of
Arizona, do hereby certify that the
foregoing is true. full and
complete copy of the articles of
incorporation of the Yuma Fruit Company,
as the same appears of record in Book of
Bonds and Agreements, page 229 ct seq.
Records of Yuma County.
Witness my hand and seal of office
[Seal.l this oath day of November, A.
ID. 1891.
j. L. REDoNDo,
County Recorder.