Arizona republican., 1902-12-27
CONTRACTING COMPANY
 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

Know All Men by These Presents, That we, the undersigned, have this day associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Territory or ArI- zona, and we do hereby certify:
 I. That the name of the corporation shall be: NELSON CONTRACTING COMPANY, and its principal place of business shall be Phoenix, Arizona.
 II. That the general nature of the business proposed to be transacted is as follows:
 To purchase, take on lease or other wise acquire, any mines, mining rights. lands,i timber, water rights and mills, and any interest therein; and to ex- plore. work. develop. operate and util- ize the same ito prepare for market. and. sell the products of the same; to buy, sell. manufacture and deal in min erals, plant. machinery, implements, conveniences. provisions and things capable of being used in connection with the mining. timber. water or other operations of the company, or re- quired by workmen and others em- ployed by the company; to construct
 
 or others, any roads, ways, tramways, railroads, bridges. reservoirs, dams, water-courses, ditches, aqueducts. wharves. furnaces. mills. crushing works. hydraulic works, power or lighting plants, and equipment. fac tories, warehouses, stores. dwelling houses and other works which may be necessary or convenient to the carrying nf ha nf hn namely: the carrying on of a general mining, milling, water or timber busi- ness. but the company shall construct and operate no railroads, tramway. turnpike or canal, except such as may lead from its principal works or place of business to some navigable stream or to some existing railroad, turnpike or public highway.
 III. That the amount of capital stock authorized. which shall be fully paid and non-assessable. is five hun dred thousand dollars (s5OO. .OOO). and the number of shares into which it is di- vided is five hundred thousand (50O, ,OOO) of the par value of one dollar ($1OO), each.
 ". That the duration shall be twen- ty-five (25) years.
 V. That the corporation shall be managed by a board of directors, who for the first year shall be:
 William J. Nelson, Los Angeles, Cal ifornia.
 Dan Fellows Platt, Englewood, New Jersey.
 G. Seward Foster, East Orange, New Jersey.
 The annual meeting for the election of directors shall be held on the first Wednesday of December in each year. VI. The company shall not subject itself to an indebtedness of more than s199,OOO. The private property of each stockholder and officer of said corpora | tion is to be exempt from all corporate debts.
 | In witness whereof. we have hereuntc | set our hands and seals this 20th day ol | November. A. D., 1902. WILLIAM J. NELSON. (Seal) DAN FELLOWS PLATT. (Seal.) G. SEWARD FOSTER, (Seal) 1 Signed and sealed in the presence ot
 HENRY SCHOENHERR. | State of New York, County of New York, ss.
 Before me, Henry Schoenherr. a mo- tary public, on this day personally ap- 1 peared WILLIAM J. NELSON, DAN FELLOWS PLATT and G. SEWARL | FOSTER, known to me to be the per sons whose names are subscribed to tn, foregoing instrument, and they sever. ally acknowledged to me that they ex ecuted the same for the purposes and | considerations therein expressed.
 My copmission expires March 20th 1903.
 har n office this goth day of November, A l D., 1902.
 l (Seal) HENRY SCHOENHERR, Notary Public, Kings County. 1 Certificate filed in New York Co. | Territory of Arizona,
 County of Maricopa, ss.
 I. B. F. McFall, county recorder 1T and for the county and territory afore said, hereby certify that I have com pared the foregoing copy with the or iginal Articles of Incorporation of Mel son Contracting Company, filed and re corded in my office on the 26th day O November. 1902, in Book No. 13 of Tn | corporations. at page -, and that tn, same is a full, true and correct cop! of such original, and of the whoI' | thereof
 Witness my hand and seal of office this 26th day of November. 1902. | (Seal0 E. F. McFALL.
 County Recorder.
 By A. s. ARTHUR, Deputy. | Filed and-recerded in the office of tn secretary of the Territory of Arizon, this 26th day of November, A. D., 1902 l at D. m.
 ISAAC T. STODDARD. | Secretary of Arizona