The Arizona sentinel., 1892-05-14

Wetmore and John H. Carpenter, of the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, desiring to incorporate ourselves under the provisions of the laws of the Territory of Arizona, for the purpose of engaging in the lawful enterprises, business pursuits and occupation hereinafter specified, do make. subscribe, aud acknowledge in duplicate, these articles of incorporation, and declare: l.
 The name assumed by this incorporation. and by which It shall be known, is the Colorado River Irrigation Company, and its principal place of transacting business, is bl the county of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, with branch office in the city of Denver, in the State of Colorado.
 II.
 The enterprises pursuits and occupation, in which this corporation proposes to en. gage, is that of constructing, maintaining and operating, dams, ascequies, canals, ditches, fumes, conduits, pumps, hyd- rants, plugs, reservoirs, acqueducts, gates and right-o therefor, and such other appliances and structures, as may be necessary, convenient and useful in turn ing, conducting, controlling or regulating the flow of water; acquiring by location appropriation, purchase, or in any other lawful manner whatever water, water rights and franchises, dams asceuuies, canals, ditches, fumes, acque,lucts, pipes. conduits, hydrants, plugs, reservoirs, gates, and right of way therefor, and such struct- ures and appliances, as may be necessary, convenient or useful in turning, conduct ing, obstructing, controlling or regulating the flow of water, to buy and sell water and the use and right to the use thereof. for any and all purposes; te acquire by purchase, location or in any other lawful manner right of way, real estate lands and all other kind ofproperty, real, personal or mixed, necessary, convenient or useful for the purposes aforesaid; to buy, sell and cons ey all kinds of real estate or lands, and te improve the same or other property; to alienate, sell, lease. demise, mortgage pledge and despose of the same or any part thereof, as well as any portion of any property this corporation may acquire, or be entitled to.
 The amount of the capital stock of this corporation shall be the sum of five million dollars, divided into fifty thousand shares of the par value of one hundred 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 making the subscription therefor, and said stock shall shall be fully paid before being issued, and non -assessable thereafter.
 That the time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of the day of the filing of these articles of incorporation, in the office of the County Recorder, of the said county of Yuma, and the termination of the said corporation shall be Twenty five years thereafter.
 V.
 The affairs of this corporation are to be and they shall be conducted by Board of Directors, consisting of five persons. and. the following named persons shall con- stitute the board of directors of this cor poration until the third Monday in Octo- Der, 1892, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, Frank S. h. gals, John H. Carpenter. E. NJ. Sanford, Earl B. Coe and John A. Muir.
 VI.
 > The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent to which this corporation is at any time to be sub- iected, or to subject itself, is the sum of three million dollars.
 VII.
 The stockholders of this corporation and their private property shall be exempt from the corporate debts of this corpora tion.
 In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, to duplicates hereof, this, the nineteenth day of March, 1892.
 ELISHA M. SANFORD, [Seal]
 EDWIN A. WETMORE, [Seal.]
 JOHN H. CARPENTER. [Seall TERRITORY OF ARIZONA
 County of Yuma.
 Before me, J. l.. Redondo, as County Recorder, of the said county and Territory, on this day personally appeared Elisha M. Sanford, Edwin A. Wetmore and John H. Carpenter, known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the forego- ing instrument and they each duly ac- knowledged to me, that they executed the same for the purposes and considerations therein expressed.
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