The Arizona sentinel., 1891-06-27
Articles of Incorporation
 -OF THE Y aaERaa Placer Min iEAS COEslDanV.

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 We, George o. Glavis, Curtis Coe Bean | c. H. Dillingham;, D. K. Allen and J. H i Carpenter, desiring to incorporate ourselves
 under the provisions of the laws of the Ter.
 ritory of Arizona, and especially an act ol the Legislative Assembly thereof entitled | tAn Act concerning Corporations" ap- proved March 8, 1887, for the purpose ot engaging in the lawful enterprises. business pursuit and occupation hereinafter speci 1 fled, do make, subscribe and acknowledge | according to law in triplicate these Articles of Incorporation and declare:
 The name assumed by this corporation and by which it shall be known, is the YUMA PLACER MINING COMPANY, and its
 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, ditches, fumes, pipes, cOnduits, pumps, hydrants, plugs, reservoirs, aque- ducts, gates and such other structures and appliances as may be necessary and useful in turning, conducting controlling, ob- structing and regulating the tiOy of water, acquiring by location, appropriation, and purchase and in any other lawful manner whatever water, water-rights 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 all purposes, to acquire by purchase, loca- tiOn and in any other lawful manner, real estate, lands and all 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 or Territory of the United States, or in 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, carving on the business of banking, in all it's branches, receiving money on deposit and paying them out again on the checks and orders of the depOsitOrs, borrowing and loaning moneys, leasing, buying and sell ing, discounting, holding and dealing in all kinds of negotiable paper, including pro missory notes, mortgages, real and personal property, stocks, bonds, city, school, county and Territorial 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 ing in all kinds of property, real, personal and mixed; buying, manufacturing, oper- ating, selling and dealing in electrical 3D. pliances for driving machinery, and as motive power for propelling any and all kinds of mechanical appliances where cleo tricity is applicable; telephone and tele- graph lines, electric lights, transacting any and all kinds of business which may be transacted by natural person; to hold, cultivate, prove up, use and enjoy the same and to alienate, sell, lease, demise and dispose of the same or any part thereof, as well as of any other property 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 or rates of inter est as it's 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 or any debt of this corporation with such interest thereon as it may be legally obligated to pay.