Mesa free press., 1900-11-23
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

AnE1QLE0 VI INTERPRETATION
OF the California Bangor Slate Com
pany.
Know all men by these presents,
that we, the undersigned, have formed
and do hereby form and constitute q
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-
poration.
T. 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,
3. @. 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 a gen.
eral 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 general hotel,
boarding and lodging house business;
to acquire. erect, maintain, build, con
struct and operate: a. 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-
graDh and telephone lines and plants.
and electric. compressed air. stesr
and other power plants: to operate.
conduct and maintain lighting works
for lighting cities, towns and horses
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 operate
railroads in the state of California and
elsewhere: to build. own. purchase.
charter, buy and sell ships, steam
boats. sailing vessels and other meane
Of TRANSFORMATION on water: to pur-
chase. acquire, buy. sell and deal in
shares OF the capital stock Of corpora
tons incorrorated under the laws of
the TERRITORY of Arizona or elsewhere;
and eenerallv to grant, sell, lease.
mortgaee. bond. hypothecate or other
wise dispose OF and incumber anv and
all of said property and to do whatev-
er else may be necessary or incident to
the rrrroees aforesaid
TIT. That the amount of the canitnI
stock Of said corroration is five him.
dred thousand dollars f$S0O. 0O0. 00A
divided into five thousand (5000)
shares Of the mar value of one hum
dred dollars $500. O0) each, which is
to be maid in cash or property within
five % years.