The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-03-03
Articles of Incorporation.

Following are the articles of incor-
poration as prepared for the Farmers
Irrigating Co.:
Know all men by these presents that
we, K. N. Benson, +. f. Bailey, A. G.
Staten, N. G. Evans and E. A. Franz,
citizens and residents of Wasco county,
state of Oregon, desiring to form COR
poration under the general laws of the
state of Oregon for that purpose, do
hereby make and execute in trlplicate
the following articles of Incorporation.
ARTICLE l.
The name assumed by this corpora.
ton, by which it shall he known, is
the Farmers Irrigating Company, and
the duration of said corporation shall
be perpetual.
ARTICLE Ii.
The enterprise, business, pursuit and
occupation In which said corporation
proposes to engage is to buy, acquire,
take over, use and operate all the prop
erty, real and personal, of the Valley
Improvement Company of Hood River,
a corporation heretofore organized and
now existing under the general laws of
the state of Oregon, and heretofore en-
gagged in the business OF supplying
water for general purposes of irrigation
to all persons desiring the same, whose
lands lie adjacent to and within reach
of the ditch aud canal and flume here
tOfore operated by said Valley Improve
ment Company.
To buy, acquire, own and use all the
rights, franchises and easements aud
all water rights and rights to divert
water and to use the same for distribu.
ton through said fiume and ditch for
general purposes of irrigation hereto
fore owned or used by the said Valley
Improvement Company.
To take any and all cOnveyances nee
essary to convey to this corporation all
real property, including the main ditch
aud fiume and all laterals, bitches and
fumes, together with the rights of way
therefor now owned or operated by said
Valley Improvement Company, and
any and ali other con veyances and con-
tracts necessary to convey to this com
pany all of the property, rights and
privileges heretofore and now owned
or used by said Valley Improvement
Company.
To buy, construct, own, maintain
and operate water canal, ditch aud
flume from a point on the stream of
Hood river hereinafter more definitely
described, the said canal, ditch and
fiume running thence in a general
northerly and northeasterly direction
to the terminus thereof hereinafter to
be mole particularly described, all in
WaseO county, state of Oregon.
To buy, acquire and appropriate
water and water rights, or to acquire
the same by condemnation; to divert
the water of said Hood river and to use
the same for general rental, sale and
distribution for the purposes of irriga-
ton and supplying water for house
hold and domestic use and watering
live stock, and to collect rates and COM
pensation for such use of said water.
To furnish water for the purposes
aforesaid to all persons whose lands lie
adjacent to or under the line of the
ditch, canal or fiume In which said
watssis conveyed, without discrimina-
ton other than priority of contract; to
construct, maintain and operate the
canal, ditch and fiume above named
and such other canals, bitches or fumes
as may be necessary to enable the cor.
poration to supply water as aforesaid
for general irrigation purposes, for do.
nestle use and watering live stock, TO
the inhabitants of Hood River valley,
in said Wasco county, Oregon.
To buy, condemn and acquire the
right to divert the said water of Hood
river from its natural channel, and to
buy, condemn and acquire rights of
way for the canals, bitches and fumes
Of said corporation, and TO buy, con-
denim and acquire lands for sites of res
ervoirs for storing water, aud for rights
Of way for feeders carrying water TO
said reservoirs and for bitches or fumes
carrying the same away and for lateral
or distributing bitches and fumes; to
buy, acquire, construct, maintain and
operate bitches, fumes, canals and res
ervoirs for distributing and storing
water.
To appropriate, buy or acquire by