The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-04-16
PRELIMINARY PAPERS AND ARTICLES OF INOOR-
 PORATION
 OF THE GLOBE, FLAGSTAFF & CAN TON RAILROAD COMPANY.

We, the undersigned, James A. Fleming. Richard Fleming, Porter w. Fleming, D. A. Abrams, L. H. Chalmers hereby subscribe the amount set opposite our names in the ag. gregate sum of more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars N250.0 .000j of the stock of the proposed railroad company, to De con structed, owned, operated and maintained between the termini. to-wit: Beginning at the town of Globe, in Gila county, Arizona Territory, running thence in thwesterly direction through the counties of Gila and CoconinO to Flagstaff, in the county of Co., coninO, Territory of Arizona; thence through said county of CocOninO in northerly direction to point at or near the Cameron Point, near the Colorado Canyon, the dis tance to be one hundred and eighty-two ,l82) miles, more or lessj also branch to said railroad between the termini, to wit: Begin ming at point on the main line of said rail road, as indicated above, forty-fve t46j miles, more or less, north of Flagstaff, Ioconino county, Arizona Territory. and running in A northeasterly direction sixty five t65) miles, more or less. to Tuba City, in the county Of Coconino, Territory of Arizona, the aggre- gate number of miles in the main line Of said railroad and branches to be two hundred and forty-se l247J miles, more or less. The aggregate amount of said subscription being more than one thousand dollars l&l,vO0) per mile for sad road and branches.
 That the instrument hereto annexed marked Exhibit "A" Is duplicate of the original subscription agreement for said stock so subscribed, and the signatures sub scribed thereto are the genuine signatures of the persons whose names are thereto suD- scribed and herein set forth; that said O. is- inai subscription IS hereby incorporated into and made part of these articles of associa- ton and incorporation, and that all of the facts therein stated ana set forth are true.
 That l.. fl. chalmers, one of the suOscrib- CTS of the aforesaid stock, was heretofore duly appointed to notify said subscribers Dy notice m writing to call a meeting for the purpose of adopting articles of incorpora- ton and electing directors pursuant to the provisions Of Chapter V, 1ilie XII, of the devised statutes of Arizona, by said .suD- scriDers. That the appointment of saId com mittee was in writing and is hereto annexed, marked Exhibit "B," ana made part hereof. mat the said notIce in writing was sent to and received by each of sad subscribers more than i've days before the time fixed m said notice for said meeting; and that pursu- ant to said notice, aL the time and place mem ,ioned tnerein, all of the said subscribers to .ne suOck of the said proposed raIruad were present ana Qid meet for the purpose Of adopting these articles of incorporation and eiecting Ave directors from among their number, and hereDy do incorporate'and or sanize themselves into an association. ana incorporated company, and adopt tue tol- towing arJicies Of incorporation as herein- after set forth, pursuant to the hevised statutes of Arizona aIoresaid; and that there were present at said meeting the following named subscribers, wnO subscribed for the ioiiowIng number Of shares tO-wit;