The Arizona sentinel., 1905-09-06
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE Arizona Contracting Company.

ArlZOnd COnUfdCGlilS OOll pdHy' We. Charles B. Caldwell. Dick Wick Hall and Charles H. Pratt. of Salome, Yuma County, Territory of Arizona, whose names are hereto subscribed do hereby associate ourselves to- gether for the purpose of forming corporation under the provisions of the laws of the Terri tory af Arizona, and for such purposes do here by declare.
 First: That the names and residences of the incorporators are as above stated.
 Second: That the name of the corporation shall be Arizona Contracting Company
 Third: That the principal place for trans acting the business of this corporation shall be at Salome, Yuma County, Territory Of Arizona, and at such other place or places as the Board of Directors may by resolution specify.
 Fourth: That the purposes for which this corporation is formed are,
 To contract for and perform development work on mines mining claims, and other real estate erect buildings, power plants, mining works. reclaim lands, construct wells, canals reservoirs, dams, railroads. street car lines, highways, and private roads; to buy. hold, Seli all kinds of real estate and personal property to lease and rent the same; to sublet and con tract construction work to take and enter into bonds for faithful performance of construction work to assign said contracts; to buy, hold, deal in stocks? bonds of other corporations, both domestic and foreign.
 Fifth: That the authorized amount of the capital stock of this corporation is twenty-five thousand dollars (S25,OOO00) divided into twenty-five thousand shares at the par value of one dollar per share and said stock when issued sl1all be fully paid and non-assessable. Sixth: The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these articles in the office of the county re- corder of Yuma County Territory of Arizona, and with the auditor of the Territory of Ari- Zona and this corporation shall continue for the period of twenty five years thereafter.
 Seventh: The affairs of the corporation shall be conducted bya board of three directors, who shall be stockholders of the corporation. 1 Eighth: That the first board of directors of this corporation shall be the undersigned in corporators who shall serve until their sue cessors are elected and qualified, and the officers of this corporation shall be a president, vice president secretary, treasurer and manager, who shall be stockholders of this corporation, and any one officer may hold two offices as the board of directors may by resolution, or by D. ing of the stockholders, and until his successor is appointed by the board of directors and qualified William w Weiss shall be President, Frank c. Goodwin, Vice-President, Ernest R. Hall Secretary and Manager, respectively.
 Ninth: The highest amount of indebtedness or liability direct or contingent, to which this corporation shall at any time be subject shall be fifteen thousand dollars (Sl5,O00,0O
 II and stockholders of this corporation shall be forever exempt from liability for it's corporate debtS
 Eleventh: The Board of directors of this corporation may adopt such bylaws fixing the times and places for holding annual and special meetings of stockholders and of the board Ot directors, and for governing the same, and con | cerning the manner of carrying on and trans l acting the business of this corporation, and | fixing the compensation of it's officials, as said board may deem eXpedient
 Twelfth: These articles of incorporation may be amended at any annual meeting Of the stockholders thereof. or at any special meeting of said stockholders called for that purpose by | the affirmative vote of majority Of the stock actually issued and outstanding
 In witness whereof. we have hereunto set oul hands and seals this tenth day of April, A. D 1905.
 Dick Wick Hall, (ScaD
 Charles H. Pratt, (SeaD Territory of Arizona, s
 County of Maricopa,
 On this day personally appeared before me J. E. Woodward, notary public in and fol the County of MaricOpa, Territory of Arizona Charles B. Caldwell Dick Wick Hall and Charles II. Pratt. known to me to be the persons who subscribed their names to the foregoing articles of incorporation and eacf acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein eX pressed
 Given under my hand and seal of office this 10th day of April, 1905
 TSCali J. B. Woodward,
 Notary Public.
 My commission expires April 23rd 1907 Territory of Arizona, : ce
 County of Yuma,
 l. l. M. PolhamuS County Recorder in anC for the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona do hereby certify that the foregoing is true full and correct copy of the Articles of Incor poration of the Arizona Contracting Company as filed for record in my office on the 18th da! 1 of May A. D.. 1905 and as appears of record il Book of Articles of incorporation Page 645 e sea- Records of Yuma County aforesaid. In witness whereof. have hereunt0 set m, hand and affixed my seal of office this 18th da, of May, A. D., 1905.
 LSeall J. M; FolhamuS,
 County Recorder, Yuma County j First publication May 6l, 1905,