The Arizona sentinel., 1904-06-29
Articles of Incorporation

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 Know all men by these presents: That we the undersigned, whose hands are hereunto affixed do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the general laws and the amendments thereof of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end we certify as follows:
 l. The names 1.-the incorporators are: stephen w. Dorsey, George NJ, Chartier and George C. Heldeman, citizens of the United States.
 The name of the said corporation shall be The Western Contracting Company and the principal place of business shall be in the town of Yuma, Yuma county, Territory of Arizona, where the annual meeting shall be held.
 The directors may meet and do business in the city of Los Angeles, California, or such other placc in the United States or any other country as they may from time to time de- termine.
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation shall be as follows, to-wit:
 To make contracts for the construction and equipment of railroads, bridges, station houses, warehouses, telegraph and telephone lines, the owning and operating of stores for the purchase and sale of goods of all kinds. to own, buy, lease and sell real estate, erect buildings for it's own use or under contract or for sale, to enter into contracts with other corporations to build railroads. cOnals, i'm prove streets, or do other and any sort of con- tract work for corporators, municipalities or individuals; to build clectrs light plants gas, works, water works and to furnish power to others and to do any and all things that would come within the scope ofa general con- tracing business, and may accept in pay Inent for work done under saeh contracts the stock and bonds of other corporations and buy or sell the same. In the conduct of its business this corporation shall have power to issue and negotiate it's own stock, bonds, notes, Of other evidence ot indebtedness by sale or hypothecation, and to deal in She stock and Gonds of other corporations. ". The authorized amount Of capital stock of this corporation shall be five thousand 0,00O shares of a par value of ten dollars tSlG.00) each.
 fSaiO CIDlG3f SJOfk SfIdil fliu III liliS CUT poration in cash or it may be issued in pay nient for contracts; options, or for services rendered, or for lands, buildings, supplies, oi for patents, machinery and other things val uable to the corporation. All stock so issued shall become fully paid up and norf-assessable and the judgment of the directors as to the | value of the property or other things pur chased and paid for in the stock Of this corpo ration shall be final and conclusive, 1 The time of the commencement of this COT poration shall be the date 1.-the filing of these articles of incorporation in the office of the County Recorder of Yuma county. Arizona and the termination thereof shall be twenty | five years.
 | The affairs or tine corporation shall be con ducted by board of three directors, who shal | hold office until their successors are duly elected and qualified as the hy-,;tws may pro vide, and the directors for the first year shal be as follows:
 NAME RESIDENCE
 stephen ". Dorsey Los Angeles. California George M Chartfer Los Angeles California George c. Haldeman Los Angeles, California | The board of directors may by resolution increase it's number to five members at any 1 time.
 Thc highest amount of indebtedness aside 1 from the current expense accounts shall no exceed Thirty Thousand (s3O,OO0) dollars. 1 TX. The private property of the stockholders O | this corporation shall be exempt from corpo fate debts of any kind whatsoever. l Tn testimony whereof the ineorporators 1 have hereunto set their hands and seals al Los Angeles, California, on this 3lst day O. May, l904.
 | Stephen w. Dorsey. George NJ. Chartier. George C. Hafdeman | STATE OF CALIFORNIA, l County of Los Angeles. '' ! On this 3lst day of May, fgOi. before me | Charles D. Kimball, Notary Public in and 1 for said los Angeles County, residing therein | duly commissioned and sworn, personally ap | peared Stephen w. Dorsey, George NJ. Char tier and George c. Hatdeman, known to me tc | be the persons whose names are subscribed te | to the within instrument and acknowledged | to me that they executed the same. | In witness whereof, have hereunto set my | hand and affixed my official seal at los An geles in said county, the day and year in this | certificate first above written.
 Charles D. kmbail, Notary Public in and for Los Angeles County, State of California. | Recorded at request Of Stephen ". Dorsey ! at a. nl., June 1, F9W. l C. P. GROWN,