The Arizona sentinel., 1892-05-07
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE COLORADO RIVER IRRIGATION
 COMPANY.

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, and acknowledge in duplicate, these articles of incorporation, and declare:
 I,
 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 in the county of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, with branch office in the city of Denver, in the State of Colorado.
 IT.
 The enterprises pursuits and occupation, in which this corporation proposes to en- gage, is that of constructing, maintaining and operating, dams, ascequies, canals, dltches, 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 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 ascequies, canals, ::ditches, fumes, acqueducts, 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 convey 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, 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 & h. gals, John H. Carpenter, E. M. Sanford, Earl B. Coe and John A. Muir.
 VI. The highest amount of indebtedness or direct or contingent to which this corporation is at any time to be sub jected, 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 l set our hands and seals, to duplicates l hereof, this, the nineteenth day of March, 1892.
 ELISHA M. SANFORD, [SeaL]
 EDWIN A. WETMoRE, [Seal.]
 JOHN HI CARPENTER TSeal TERRITORY OF ARIZONA County of Yuma.