Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1900-12-14
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF the California Bangor Slate Com
pany.
Know all men by these presents
that we, the undersigned, have formed
and do hereby form aud constitute d
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 ineorv
Iporation.
!. That the name OF said corpora
ton is California Bangor Slate Com
Ipany.
That the names of the incorporators
are the following towit: H H. Todd,
E. c. 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 busi-
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 dispo~e Of mines
and mining properties, mill sites. wa
ter, water rights, slate deposits. GUAR
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 territorv
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: (D mills, plants
and machinery to prepare and mani
facture slate and slate products: q,
mills, reduction and other plants for
reducing, treating or extracting the
precious metals, and 60 mining ma
chinery, reservoirs, water and water
rights, dams, bitches, fumes, tele-
graph and telephone lines and plants,
and electric, compressed air, steam,
and other power plants; to operate,
conduct and maintain lighting works
for lighting cities, towns and houses
for domestic or other illuminating
purposes; to sell or furnish steam,
electricity or compressed air or other
mower for manufacturing, transporta-
tion, 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
heats. sailing vessels and other means
OF TRANSFORMATION on water; to pur-
chase, acquire, buy. sell and deal in
shares of the CAPITAL stock of corpora
lions incnrporated under the laws of
the territorv Of Arizona or elsewhere:
and generally to grant. sell. lease,
mortpe"e bond. hvpothecate or other
wise disn"ee of and incumber any and
all of said nroperty and to do whatev-
or else may be necessary or incident to
the on~ncsee aforesaid
wv. That the amount of the canital
stock Of said cornoration ia five HIM.
dred thousand dollars $500. 00O 00)
divided into five thousand (5 $1,000
shares cf the mar value Of one hur-
dred dollars fs100 n0> each. which is
tn he r"id IN cash or property within
five (5) wears.