The Arizona sentinel., 1906-02-07
Articles of Incorporation
 ;DF THE Moneta Avenue Water and Lighting Company.

Know all men by these presents, that we, the undersigned, Vim. H Fuller, J. M. Mcleod and Paul Wiuton, all Of the County of Los Angeles State of California, have this day associated ourselves together for the pur- pose of forming @ corporation under the laws fthe Territory of Arizona, and hereby adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:
 ARTICLEI, The name Of the corporation shall be "Moneta Avenue Water 6 Lighting Company" and-the principal place within business of said corporation is to be transact ed is Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, and said corporation may establish offices within or without the Territory of Arizona where meetings may be held, and said corpo- ration shall have an office in the City Of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of Cali fornia. where meetings of the stock and meetings of the Board of Directors may be held, and the business of the cor poration carried on in accordance with the laws of the Territory of Arizona, with the same effect as if held, done or performed at Yuma, Arizona.
 ARTICLE 2. The general nature of the buSi- ness to be transacted Is: to purchase, lease. lond, locate or otherwise acquire, own, eX- change, hold, sell, or otherwise dispose of, pledge. mortgage, hypothecate, and deal in real estate and all kinds of personal property; to build, construct, operate, maintain, hold and sell water. water rights, water works, dams, dam and reservoir sites, ditches, con duits, tanks, pumps and pipe lines; to manu- fracture iron, wooden and cement pipe, and all other kinds of pipe for conducting and distributing water, and develop cement beds, and manufacture, hold and sell commercial cement; to acquire by appropriation, condem- nation, purchase or otherwise the ownership of water, water rights and water privileges and franchises, and to hold, use, sell or lease the same or any part thereof for domestic,
 irrigation or other benef1 cial uses; to appro- priate, sell, hold, rent, distribute and supply water, water rights and privileges to the pulp ufactured ice; to purchase and construct ma- chinery and mechanical structures for the purpose of generating electrical power and to sell or lease power so furnished by electri- cal machinery; to manufacture. sell and
 lease artificial light generated by electricity; to manufacture, purchase or sell gas, and to build, operate, hold and sell electric light and power plants, and purchase, hold and sell pdCenGS, paIenC flgnCS, anu licenses thereto appertaining; to manufacture, buy and sell all kinds of merchandise; to borrow money; toiSsue and sell it's bonds secured by mortgage or trust deed on any or all of it's corporate property; to purchase, acquire; own, preempt and sell its own stock and bonds and the stock and bonds of other private or public corporations, and to do and perform all things necessary to transact the affairs and business of the corporation, within and with out the Territory of Arizona, requisite and proper for the purpose of carrying on any or all of the business herein specified.
 ARTICLE 8. The amount of capital stock of said corporation shall be one million dollars. to be divided into 100000 shares ofthe par value of ,O0 each. Six hundred thousand shares shall be common stock and four hundred thousand shares shall be pre- ferred stock. The preferred stock shall be entitled to cumulative dividends at the rate Of six per cent per anuum, payable semi annually ont of the earnings of the corpora ton; before any dividend Is paid upon the common stock. Such preferred stock shall not entitle the holder thereof to any voice in the management Of the corporation, nor to