Arizona republican., 1900-08-12
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.
 of the LAND AND CANAL COM
 PANY.

1 We. J. C. Wa-son, J. Ernest Walker
 and NJ. w. Messinger, residents of
 Maricopa county, Arizona, desiring to ! become incorporated and to incorporate ourselves under the provisions of the , laws of the Territory of Arizona for the purpose of engaging in the business i hereinafter specified. do make. sign and
 acknowledge, according to law, these articles of incorporation.
 ARTICLE l.
 The names of the incorporators of | this corporation are J. c. Wasson, J. Ernest Walker and NJ. w. Messinger.
 ARTICLE IT.
 The name assumed by this corpora ton and by which it shall be known in l all it's transactions is the Buckeye ! Canal and Land Company, and the principal place of transacting its busi-
 ness shall be at the city of Phoe-
 nix in Maricopa County, Ari- zona; provided that said corporation
 may also transact any business and have an office in such other place or places as it's board of directors may by resolution direct or prescribe. The time of the commencement of this cor poration shall be the time of the filing of these articles of incorporation in the office of the county recorder of Mari copa County. Arizona, and the termi- |, nation thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 ARTICLE III.
 The general nature or the busin ss proposed to be transacted by this. cor poration is that of owning lands, ap- propriating waters from natural streams for the purpose of irrigation and domestic purposes, and for the pur- pose of conveying the same to users | thereof for a beneficial purpose. Also constructing, maintaining and operat- ing canals, dams, ditches, reservoirs and aqueducts and such other struc
 lures and appliances as may be nec=s- sary and useful in turning, conducting. controlling, holding and regulating the flow of water for irrigation and any other purpose for which the same may be put to a beneficial use; to acquire by location or purchase, or in any other lawful mann5r whatever, lands and water. water rights, franchises, dams, canals, ditches and conduits, reser- voirs and such other structures and appliances as may be deemed neces- sary convenient or useful for managing and operating of said canals, lands and the water appropriated for the uses herein mentioned: also to sell and con- vey water rights in it's canal or canals used to furnish and deliver to persons owning stock or water rights in this corporation water for any beneficial
 use for which such persons may desire
 the same; also to deal in all kinds of
 real and personal property. including the ownership of stocks in other cor porations; also to hold, cultivate, ac- Quire, prove up from the United States government and use and enjoy real | estate, and sell, lease. demise and dis pose of the same, or any part thereof,
 as well as any other property that this corporation may now CT hereafter own. And said corporation may bor- ! TOW money and contract to pay the same at such time or times and at such rate of interest as it's board of directors deem proper, and may hypothecate. mortgage or pledge all or any part of the property of this | corpora ton, and all or any part of the
 property that this corporation may hereafter acquire, and secure the pay
 ment of any money or moneys, with
 interest, as said board of directors of
 the corporation shall or may from tima
 to time deem advisable to borrow, and may hecure the payment of any
 debt of this corporation by mortga@H or otherwise. and agree to pay such in- terest thereon as the board of directors
 of this corporation may from time ta
 time deem advisable. And said coz
 poration may do any and all acts moi dent to the powers and businesses here
 in mentioned, to the same eXtenT as
 they could or might be done by nat ural person.
 ARTICLE ".
 The amount or the capital stock of
 this corporation shall be $1QQ,Qe0. di-