The Arizona sentinel., 1892-07-02
ARTICLES or 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 triplicate,
these articles of incorporation, and declare:
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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 i'll 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,
bitches, 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, bitches, 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; to acquire by
purchase, location or in any other lawful
manner right of way, real estate lands and
all other kind ofproperty, real, personal or
the purposes aforesaid; to buy, sell and
convey all kinds of real estate or lands,
and to improve the same or other property;
to ALLEVIATE. sell, lease demise, mortgage
pledge and dispose of the same or any part
thereof, as we'll 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 worcestershire
thereafter
That the time'of the commencement, of
this corporation shall be the
date of the day of the
Cling 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 Eve 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. In
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 SUBJ
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
ton.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto
set our hands and seals, to duplicates
hereof, this, the nineteenth day of March,
1892.
ELISHA NJ. SANFORD, [Seal.]
EDWIN A. WETMoRE, [Seal.]
JOHN H. CARPENTER. [Seal.I
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