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

PANY.
 We. J. C. Wasson, J. Ernest Walker
 and M. 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
 acknowledge. according to law, these
 articles of incorporation.
 l ARTICLE I.
 The names of the incorporators of
 this corporation are J. c. Wasson, J.
 Ernest Walker and M. w Messinger. ARTICLE II.
 l The name assumed by this corpora ton and by which it shall be known in all it's transactions is the Buckeye
 Canal and Land Company, and the ! principal place of transacting it's 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 its board of directors may by 1 resolution direct or prescribe. The time of the commencement of this cor poratfon shall be the time of the filing : or 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 of the business proposed to be transacted by this cor poration IS that of owning lands, ap- pro9riating waters from natural streams for the purpose of irrigation and domestic purposes, and for the pul- 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 neces- 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 manner whatever, lands and water, water rights, franchises, dams, canals, dftcheS 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 or hereafter own. And said corporation may bor- row money and contract to pay the same at such time or times and at such rate of interest as its board of directors deem proper. and may hypothecate, mortgage or pledge all or any part of the property of this anu all DT any part OI IHe 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 time to time dsem advisable to borrow, and | may hecure the payment of any | debt of this corporation by mortgag> | or otherwise, and agree to pay such in | terest thereon as the board of directors | of this corporation may from time to time deem advisable. And said cor | 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 a nat ural person.
 ARTICLE ".
 The amount of the capital stock of l this corporation shall be $100000, di- vidsd into 400 shares of the par value of $25O per share; and the times when and the conditions upon which sail capital stock shall be paid in are as follows: Upon making subscription therefor, or within thirty days there after the whole amount of the stock which shall be subscribed shall be paid sither in cash or in property. Any per son making a subscription for stock in this corporation, who neglects, upon