Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1900-11-30
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

secretary OF Arizona.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF the California Bangor Slate Com
pany.
Know all men by these presents,
that WEI the undersigned, have formed
and do hereby form and constitute 1,
corporation under the laws of the ter
iritory Of Arizona, and we do hereby
certify and declare and do hereby
adopt the following articles Of incor-
paration.
/. That the name of said corpora
ton is California Bangor Slate Com
pany
That the names Of the incorporators
are the following towit: H. H. Todd,
e. G.. Robinson, Fred Sandelin, James
B. Merritt and Thos. M. Robinson.
The principal place of business shall
be and is Phoenix, Maricopa county, in
said territory Of Arizona; but the
corporation proposes to carry on bust
ness in the United States OF America,
and elsewhere, with general office in
the city and county of San Francisco,
state Of California, and at such other
places as the business transacted by
said corporation may make necessary
or desirable.
II. That the general nature of the
business to be transacted by said COR
poration is as follows: In the terri
tory Of Arizona, and elsewhere In
United States Of America, to acquire
by purchase or any other lawful man
ner, own and lease, and to sell, let and
otherwise deal in and dispose Of mines
and mining properties, mill sites, wa
ter, water rights. slate deposits. quar-
ries, beds or properties. and slate and
slate products and town sites; to
subdivide the townsites into lots and
blocks. and to build, construct and
erect buildings, houses and other i'm.
provements thereon, and buy and sell
the same: to construct and lay wa
ter, gas and other mains in the streets
thereof, and supply the inhabitants
with water for domestic and other
purposes, and with gas for lighting
and other purposes; to erect and
maintain wires for the transmission
and supplying of electricity for light
ing and domestic purposes; to do all
manner of street work, or to cause the
same to be done by contract or other
wise; to carry on and conduct gen.
era1 transportation, mercantile and
commercial business in the territory
|of Arizona. and in the state Of Cali
fornia and elsewhere; to carry on,
conduct and manage q general hotel.
boarding and lodging house business:
to acquire. erect maintain, build con-
struct and operate: (1) mills, plants
and machinery to prepare and manu-
facture slate and slate products: e.,
mills, reduction and other plants for
reducing, treating or extracting the
precious metals, and (3) mining ma
chinery, reservoirs, water and water
rights, dams, bitches. fumes, tele-
graph and telephone lines and plants.
land electric, compressed air, steam.
and other power plants: to operate.
conduct and maintain lighting works
for lighting cities, towns md houses
for domestic or other illuminating
purposes; to sell or furnish steam,
electricity or compressed air or other
power for manufacturing, transporta-
ton. lighting and other purposes: to
build. construct, maintain and onerate
railroads in the state Of California and
elsewhere: to build own. purchase.
charter, buy and sell ships, steam
boats. sailing vessels and other mems
Of transportation on water: to pur-
chase. acquire, buy, sell and deal in
shares Of the cspital stock of cornora
tfons Incorporated under the laws of
the TERRITORY Of Arizona or elsewhere:
and generally to grant, sell. lease.
mortgage, bond. hypothecate or other
wise dispose of and incumher any and
all OF said property and to do whatev-
er else may be necessary or incident to
The ru~noses aforesaid.
Ut. That the amount OF the carital
stock Of said cornoration is Ave hum
dred thousand dollars ($500. 600 00)
divided into five thousand (5.000l
shares Of the mar value at one hum
dred dollars (s1oO.0o) each, which is
to be Maid in cash or property within
FIVE 81 years