The Arizona sentinel., 1905-09-13
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 a 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 ncorporators 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, 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 (S25,O00.OO) 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.
 rr1-z 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 board of directors may by resolution, or by 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 be fifteen thousand dollars (S15 0O0,00).
 Tenth The private property of the members and stockholders of this corporation shall be forever exempt from liability for its 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 of directors, and for governing the same and con cerning the manner of carrying on and trans acting the business of this corporation, and fixing the compensation of its 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 a majority of the stock actually issued and outstanding
 In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this tenth day of April, A. D. l905
 Charles B. Caldwell, (SeaD
 Dick Wick Hall. (SeaD
 Charles H. Pratt, (SeaD Territory of Arizona, -I County of Maricopa, " On this day personally appeared before me, J. B. Woodward, a notary public in and for the County of Maricopa Territory of Arizona, Charles B. Caldwell, Dick Wick Hall and Charles H. Pratt, known to me to he the persons who subscribed their names to the foregoing articles of incorporation and each 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. ESealI J. B. Woodward,
 Notary Public. My commission expires April 2Srd, l9o7 Territory of Arizona, ss County of Yuma, I, J. M. 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 Incor poration of the Arizona Contracting Company, as filed for record in my office on the 18th day of May, A. D., 1905, and as appears of record in Book of Articles of Incorporation Page 645 ct sea-, Records of Yuma County aforesaid In witness whereof, have hereunt0 set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 18th day of May, A. D., 1905 [Seall J. M: Polhamus,
 County Recorder. Yuma County, First publication May 3l, 1905,