The Arizona sentinel., 1899-10-14
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OFTHE YUMA COLORADO RIVER GOLD DREDGING COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRES ENTS: That we, the undersigned, T. w Brooks, w. E, Marvin, o. H. Willis, Don- aid Mcintyre, Samuel de Corse, James P, Buck, l.. G. Stanchtield, Frank Avila, ot Yuma, Yuma County, Territory of Ari- zona, have associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under and by virtue of the laws of the ter ritOry of Arizona and of the United States of America, and do hereby adopt the fol lowing articles of incorporation, namely:
 1.-The names of the corporators are T. w. Brooks, w. E. Marvin, o. H. Willis, Donald Mcintyre, Samuel de Corse, James P. Buck, L. G: Stanchfeld, and Frank Avila.
 2-The name of the corporation shall be the "Yuma Colorado River Gold Dredging Company"
 3-The principal place for the transac. ton of the business of the corporation is and shall be Yuma, Yuma County, Terri tory of Arizona.
 1.-The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted is the carving on of placer mining operations on the banks, bars and bed of the Colorado river. | by dredging or other process, and in the turtherance or development of such opera
 tlons the requirement by purchase, lease, location or otherwise, of placer mining or
 other grounds suitable for the purposes of
 thls company; the purchase, manufacture
 and erection of such machinery or i'm proyements as may be deemed necessary
 Tn the carrying on of the business propos-
 ed; the inauguration and maintenance of
 desired transportation facilities, and the dolng of any and all other things necessary
 or incidental to the carrying out of the pur- poses hereinbefore specified; to buy, sell.
 lease, and deal in all kinds of property.
 real, personal and mixed, mines, ores
 electricity, water and water rights, fran
 chl3es, goods, wares, merchandise and
 materials, and all the productions of thi.
 company; to locate, claim, divert, and oth erwlse acquire and improve mineral lands
 water and water rights, refining works anC , mills; to locate, construct. acquire anc } maintain dams, tunnels, pipes, fumes l levees, viaducts, recievers, aquaducts canals, bridges, embankments, and excava
 tlons across, under, and over any wate
 course, lake, river, or stream, waterway
 Or puhlc highway, and to sell lease, gran
 and dispose of mines, electricity, warer an,
 water rights thus secured controlled, O l appropriated.
 0 5-The capital stock of sad corporatio, t shall be five hundred thousand dollar |, ($5OO, ,OOO.OOJ, divided into five thousan, (5OOO) shares of the par value of one hun
 dred dollars C$10O.OO) each. The stock, O
 any portion of it, may be issued at an
 time, by the board of directors, in consider e atlon of property purchased by, for ser .- vices rendered to, or as security for money l. borrowed by this corporation, or when sub e scribed and paid for in cash. In all in r. stances the stock, when issued shall b a fully paid up and nOn-assessable. i' 1.-The corporate existence of said COT : p0ratlon shall commence upon the date ( 7, % the filing of these articles Of incorporatio 70 m the office of the county recorder ( IS Yuma County, Territory of Arizona. an ,f shall terminate twenty-five years there
 after.
 r. 7.-The affairs of said corporation sha d be managed by a board of five director, S- who shall be stockholders in the corpora Y hon; provided that in the event, at an I tune, Ot there not being as many as fiy n stockholders, any other number not les e than three may constitute a board of d
 rectors and transact the affairs of the coj e pOratlOn. These directors shall be electe ot annually by the stockholders of the co1 'f pOration at the regular stockholders mee e ing, which shall be held on the first Mor lS day of August, of each year. in the office '0 the company, i'll Yuma, and shall pertorr V the functions of their Ofhce until their su( o cessOrs shall have been duly elected an d qualified, In the event, at any time, ofth ,t death, resignation or disability of any d. e rector the remaining members of the boar g, may fill the vacancy by the election ( t. some stockhOlder The first board of d e rectors shall consist of T. w. Brooks. w "a E. Marvin, O. H. Willis, Donald McIntyr 'l and James P. Buck, who shall hold thei . offices rom the date of the filing of thes = articles in the office of the county recorde
 until the regular election and qualification
 as above provided for, or of their success
 Ors.
 8-The officers of said corporation shal
 be a president, vice president, secretar and treasurer, and such other officers a = the board of directors may from time t
 time determine They shall be eIecte, annually, by the board of directors, at tn s first meeting after the election of such al d rectors. The president and vice-presiden t shall be members of the board of directors y 9-The highest amount of indebtedness y said corporation shall at any time creat t shall dut exc ed the sum of one hundred l. thousand dollars C$1OO, ,OOOOO).
 10-The private property of stockholder
 of this corporation shall be exempt iron