The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1892-01-09
ARTICLES OF lNc0RPos8!l3N OF THE
YUMA FRUIT COMPANY.

Know ye, that we, Edein A. Wetmore
John II. Carpenter and Elisha NJ Sanford
residents OF the Territory of Arizona, anC
Earl +. Gee and Fred Z. Gee, residents o.
the State Of Colorado, desiring to erect &
corporation under and by virtue of the
laws Of the Territory Of Arizona, for the
! purpose of engaging in the lawful enter.
| prise, business pursuits and occupation
! hereinafter mentioned do hereby make,
subscribe and acknowledge these articles OF
! incorporation and declare:
The name assumed by this corporation
and by which 1t shall be known is tile
Yu na Fruit Company, and the principal
place of business shall be the County OF
Hums, Tcrritory OF Arizona, with a branch
Office atthe City Of Denver, in the state OF
Colorado.
II.
The enterprises, pursuits and business
occupation in which this corporation pro-
poses TO engage is as follows, namely gen
eral fruit, agricultural, gardening, iner-
chandise and stockraising business; and to
buy, sell, lease, let, hold, acquire and con-
vey water, water rights and the use of
water, land and all other kinds of property,
real, personal, chattels, real and mixed,
convenient and useful for the purposes
aforesaid; aud to ALLEVIATE, sell, lease,
mortgage, pledge, hypothecate and dis
peso Of the same or any part thereof.
III.
The amount OF the capital stock of this
corporation shall be five hundred thousand
dollars (55o0, 900, divided into fifty thous.
and 80 ,0j1) shares of the par value of ten
{$l0) 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 MAX
ing the subscription therefor, and said
stock shall be fully paid before being is
sued and non-assessable thereafter,
".
Tho time of the commencement of this
corporation SHALL he on the day of the filing
os these articles of this corporation in. the
Office of the County Recorder of the county
Of Yuma, Territory Of Arizona, and the
termination of said corporation shall be
twenty-five (25j years thereafter.
V.
The aG+irs Of this corporation are TO be
and they shall be conducted by Board of
Directors consisting Of 1--WE person who
shall be elected annually by the stock
holders at such time and il such manner as
shall DC prescribed by The bylaws of this
corporation and all Of whom shall be sub
scribers to the capital stock thereof. The
following named persons who are sub
scrbers 10 the capital stock of this corpor-
alton, shall constitute the Board Of Direc-
tors of 5his corporation until the third
Monday in October. a. ID. 1892, and until
their successors are daily elected and quail
fed, to-wit Edwin A, Wetmore, Earl B.
Coe, Fred Z. Coe, john Ii. Carpenter and
Elisha NJ Sanford.
VI
The highest amount of indebtedness di-
rect or contingent to which this corporation
is at any time to be subjected or to subject
itself, is the sum of three hundred thous-
and dollars 1890, 000l.
VII.
The stockholders of this corporation
and their private property, shall be exempt
from the corporate debts of this corporation. |
La witness whereof, we have hereunto
set our hands and seals this Gath day OF |
November, A. d. 1891.
EDWIN a. WBrMoRE, [Seall