The Arizona sentinel., 1892-06-04
ARTICLES OF IHcoSPoaATIoY OF THE COLORADO RIVER IRRIGATION
 COMPANY.

We, Elisha NJ. Sanford, Edwin A. Wetmore and John H. Carpenter, of the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, desiring to incorporate oursel res under tho prov risions of the la Rs of the Territory of Arizona, for the purpose of engaging in the aw ful enterprises, business pursuits and occupation hereinafter specified, do make, subscribe, and acknow ledge in triplicate, these articles of incorporation, and declare: The name assumed by this incorporation. and by which It shall be known, is the Colorado Rirer Irrigation Company, and its principal place of transacting business, is nl 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.of way therefor. and such other appliances and structures, as may be necessary, convenient and useful in tuln- ing, conducting, controlling or regulating the flow of water; acquiring by location appropriation, purchase, or in any other law fml manner whatever water, water rights and franchises, dams ascequies, canals, ditches, flames, acque,lucts, pipes. conduits, hydrants, plugs, reservoirs, gates, and right of way therefor, ani such struct- nres and appliances, as may be necessary, convenient or useful in turning, condnct- ing, obstructing, controlling or regulating the flow of ater, 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 bny, sell and con, ey all kinds of real estate or lands, and to improve the same or other property to aiienate. sell, lease. d-mise, mortgage pledge and despose of the same or any part hereof, as well as any portion of any property this corporation may acquire, or be entitled to.
 III.
 The amount of the capital stock of this corporation shall be the sum of five million d"llars, divided into fifty thousand shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each, and the time " hen and the conditions upon which said capital stock is Co be paid is as follows, tO-wit: The whole thereor, immediately upon making the subscriptions therefor, and said stock shall shall he fully paid hefore being issued, and non-assessable thereafter.
 That the time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of the day of the iling cf these articles of incorporation, in the office of the County Recorder, of the >aid county of Yuma, and the termination If tue said corporation shall be TN enty- i've years thereafter.
 V.
 The affairs of this corporation are to be and they shall be conducted by Board oi Directors, consisting of five persons, and, the following named persons shall con stitute the board of directors of this cor. poratinn until the third Monday in Octo' Ter, 1892, and until their successors arc ,luly elected and qualified Frank S. In gals, John H. Carpenter. F. NJ. Sanford Earl B. Coe and John 4. Muir.
 VI.
 The highest amount of Indebtedness ol liability, direct or contingent {. whici chis corporo ticn is at any time to be sub jetttc, q tt sIl1 yet itself, is the sum ot three million dollars
 VII.
 The stockholders of this corporation and sheir private property shall be exempt from the corporate debts of this corpora tiOn.
 In witness whereof, we have hereuntc ct our hands and seals, to duplicates hereof, this, the nineteenth day of March, 1892.
 ELISHA NJ. SANFnRD, GSeal1
 EDWIN A. WETMoRE, [Sesl
 JOHN II. CARPENTER. [Seal