The Arizona sentinel., 1892-10-22
Articles Of incorporation
 or TIE South Gila Improvement Com.
 pany.

Horace e. Damon, Henry D. Underwood and Franh H. woodworth, desiring to incorporate our selves under the provisions of the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and especially Act of the Legislative Assembly thereof, entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations" approved March sth, 1887, for the purpose of engaging in the business and enterprise hereinafter mentioned, do make, subscribe and acknowledge in triplIcase, these Articles of Incorporation, As follows, namsly: l.
 The uame..oi this corporation, and by which 1t shall hereinattcr be known, is the South Gila I'm Provement Company, and the principal place for tral sacting business is the town of Chrystoval, County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona. IT.
 The business and enterprise in which this cor poration proposes to engage, shall be to acquire, own, hold, manage and control by purchase, deed, gift, grant, conveyance lease or location, real estate and rights and interests therein of every kind and nature and also to acquire, own. hold, manage and control personal property, contracts choses in action, and property rights and interests of every kind and nature, and to sell the same or any part thereof for itself, and on its own account or for others, for commission, to borrow and loan money and to carry on the business of banking in all its branches, to give and take mortgages and other security for money borrowed or loaned, to buy and sell goods, and merchandise, and to conduct and carry on general mercantile business in all its branches, to acquire water and water rights and privileges by location, purchase or grant, and sell and lease the for irrigating manufacturing, power, domestic purposes. to construct and maintain dams, canals ditches, pipes and reservoirs for diverting, receiving, con- ductng and distributing water, to construct build ings and warehouses, and to buy sell and lease the same to construct roads and other public i'm provments and to maintain the same, to purchase hold and sell stock in other corporations, to build construct, own and operate telephone and tele graph lines or to lease the same, to purchase, ac quire, own and operate railroads and tramways to be run or operated by steam. electricity or other approved motive power, and to lease the same. H.
 The amount of the capital stock of this Corpor Ation shall be two million i've hundred thousand dollars (t2 5oo, ,oOc( divided into two hundred and fifty thousand (25o oOo) shares of the par value of ten doars (slO) per share, and the same when paid shall be sssessable, and the said capital stock shall be paid in at the time and under the conditions ordered and authorized by the Board of Directors of this Corporation.
 The time of the commencement of this Corpor. ation shall be tre day of the filing of these artice in the oce of the Recorder of the County of Yuma Territory of Arizona, and shall terminate twenty Ave (25l years thereafter.
 V.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability direct contingent, to which this corporation is at any time to be subject Is the sum of one million dollars C$l. 900 ooOo)
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which this Cooperation st any time to subject itselt Is the of million dollars (sl, ,o0O, ,oo0) VII
 The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of Directors, composed of five (b) per who shall be elected annually by the stockhold CTS, and shall hold office for year and until their successors are elected and qualified. The time and manner of said election shall be provided for in the by-laws of said corporation. Said direc shall be subscribers to the capital stock of said corporation, and person shall be eligible to said office unless he be stockholder in the corporation and any person ceasng to be 6 subscriber shall cease to be director, and hereafter if any drec- tor shall cease to be stockholder he shall cease to be director.
 The Board Of Directors of this Corporation shall have power to establish bylaws adopt Corporate Seal and make all rules and regulations necessary for the management of the affairs of this Corpora ton, and the officers thereof. The following named persons who are sub scribers to the capital stock of this Corporation shall constitute its Board of Directors until the first day of March 1893, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, to wit: Horace c. Damon, Henry D. Underwood. Frank H. Wood worth, George ". Cameron and George H. Lewis.
 VIU The stockholders 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 9th day of September, 1892. Executed in triplicate.
 H.G. DAMON, [seal.I
 HENRY D. UNDERWOOD, ISeal.l
 FRANK H. wooDwoRTH [ssalI TERR TORY OF ARIZONA,
 Csun;y of Yuma Before me, O. F. Thornton, Notary Public in | and for the County of Yuma, Territory of AsizOna, personally appeared, Horace G. Damon, Henry D. Underwood and Frank H. Woodworth, known to to be the persons whose names subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and each of them ac- knowledged to me that they executed the same for the purpose and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal of office this 9th day of September, A. D., 1892.
 (sEAL.I o. F. THORNTON,
 Notary Public.
 
 Articles Incorporation South Gila Improvement Co.,, ChryStoval, Yuma Co.," Filled in the office of the Secretary of the Ter ritory of Arizona this day of September. A. D. 1892, at Il a. m. N. A. MORFORD,
 Secretary of Territory. By. Dy..................... Assistant TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, ] Office of Secretary. "' IN. A. Morford Secretary of the Territory of Arizona, do hereby certify that the above and fore going is true and correct copy of the Articles of Incorporation of the South Gila Improvement Company, now file in my office. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal. Done at Phoenix this l7 day of September, 1892
 GsEALI N. A. MORFoRD,
 Secretary of Territory. N0RTON'S STAGE LINEI