The Arizona sentinel., 1905-08-23
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE

Arizona Contracting Company.
 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 1 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,
 l 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, daTns railroads. street car lines l highways and private roads; to buy, hold, self 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 (S25000.O0) divided into | twenty-five thousand shares at the par value of one dollar per share and said stock when issued skall 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 by a board of three directors, who shall be stockholders of the corporation.
 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 president, vice president secretary, treasurer and manager, who shall be stockholders of this corporation, and any one officer may hold two offices as the
 
 laws provide and until the first annual meet 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 h 1 1o1l, fGt. nON
 Tenth: The private property of the members 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 tEo
 times and places for holding annual and special meetings Of stockholders and of the beard of directors and for governing the same. and con- cerGing the manner of carrying on and trans acting the business of this corporation, and | fixing the compensation of it's officials, said board may deem eXpedient.
 |. Twelfth: These articles of Incorporation | may be amended at any annual meeting of the stockholders thereof, 0r at any special meeting of said stockholders called for that purpose, by | the affirmative vote of a majority oI the stock l actually issued and outstanding. In witness whereof. we have hereunto set our
 hands and seals this tenth day of April 4. D. | l9G5.
 Dick Wick Hall tSeaD Charles II. Pratt, (Scal(
 Territory of Arizona ss 1 County Of MarcOpa, " | On this day personally appeared before mo,
 l. B. Woodward, notary public in and for
 the County of Maricopa, Territory of Arizona, | Charles B. Caldwell, Dick Wick Hall and i Charles II. Pratt, known to me to be the persons who subscribed their names to the l foregoing articles of incorporation and each l acknowledged to me that he executed the same
 for the purposes and consideration therein eX- l pressed
 Given under my hand and seal of office this 1 10th day of April, 1905.
 | ISCall J. B. Woodward. | Notary Public
 My commission expires April 23rd, 1907.
 Territory of Arizona, ss
 County of Yuma,
 | J. NJ. PolhamuS County Recorder in and
 for the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona,
 do hereby certify that the foregoing is true full and correct copy of the Articles of lncor- poration of the Arizona Contracting Company, ! as filed for recoj q in my office on the 18th day 1 of May, A. D.. 1865, and aS appears of record in 1 Book 1 of Articles of Incorporation Page 645 ct | seq. Records of Yuma County aforesaid. | In witness whereof, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 18th day of May. A. D., 1905.
 | Seal J. M PolhamuS, County Recorder, Yuma County. First plIblira atiun May 3ls iEl5,