Mohave County miner., 1909-10-23
AMENDED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE MESQUITE IRRIGATION CON-
 PANY hereafter to be known as the Virgin River Irrigation Com
 pdny.


 at a special meeting of the Stockholders of the Mesquite Irrigation Company, . corporation, regularly and legally called and held at the of
 S5 Nevada at o'clock p m the lst day of July, A. D. l9O9, and more than a majority (3-4) of the subscribed and outstand- ing capital stock of said corporation being pres ent and legally represented and voting affirm atively therefor, it was determined to amend the articles or certificate of incorporation of said corporation. which was heretofore, to wit, on the 29th day of Decent Der, A. D. 1906, filed in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Mohave. Territory of Arizona, and the said amended articles, as hereinafter set forth were read, duly considered anc adopted by the said stockholders ot said corporation.
 Now. therefore, these Amended Articles of Incorporation witness:
 FIRST: That the name of said corporation. in lieu of its former name, "MSsQUITE IRRI CATION COMPANY" is and shall hereafter be VIRGIN RIVER IRRIGATION COMPANY
 The principal place of business of said cor poraton is Mesquite, Lincoln County Nevada, but it may have branch offices and hold Direc- tors and Stockholders meetings at other places in Nevada or Arizona.
 SECOND: The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows, to-wit: The acquisition by ap- propriation, purchase, lease or otherwise of water and water rights: the establishment con structon, operation and manufacture of power plants, reservoirs, ditches, fumes, pipe lines and systems, and any and all other means and convenienceS for the diverting and handling of water for irrigation, powe domestic and stock purposes the acquisition by purchase, lease or otherwise of such real estate buildings. ma. chinery, etc as may be necessary for the con- duct of it's business, and to do any and all other things that natural person, or an aSsocia tion ot natural persons would or could law fully do, whether the same be specfically " mentioned herein or not.
 THIRD: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation Gin lieu of it's former capitalization of Ten Thousand dollars (SlO,- 0O00O shall be and is One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars Sl5o,OO0.O0l. divided into Seven Thousand Five Hundred (7.500, shares of the par value of Twenty Dollars (S20 0O) each. This company having based its former issuance of stock upon the basis of one share of stock for each acre of land which it's sub- scrbers had cultivated or irrigated under, or with water from the Mesquite Irrigation Canal, therefor, for each share of said original issue of stock, the owner thereof shall upon surren. dering to this company said stock so subscribed or owned by him, as shown by the books of this company, be entitled to- and have issued to him in lieu thereof a corresponding share of stock as valued under these Amended Articles. provided he has. or does first give to this com pany good and sufficient quit claim deed to all his right. title and interest in and to the Mesquite dam, canal, its lateralS and the wa. ter thereof; the said capital stock in excess of the amount required to redeem said original issue, may be subscribed and pad for in the following manner, to wit.
 Any owner of land now cultivated under either the Bunkerville or Mesquite canals (and for which there is not now stock held in this company under its original iSSue) shall be per mitted to subscribe for as many shares of said capital stock as he has acres of land so culti vated, aud fully pay for the same by giving to this company good and sufficient quit claim deed for all his right. title and interest in and to the Bunkerville and Mesquite dams, canals their laterals and the waters thereof or flowing therein; and for each acre ot land susceptible of cultivation or irrigation under the said Bun kerville and Mesquite canals and not now cul tivated the owners thereof may be permitted | fn ,hsnr 70 pf hQ of this company and pay for the same in such manner and upon such terms as the Board o1 Directors may determine.
 FOURTH: The time when these amended articles of incorporation shall take effect ant become operative shall be the date of the films of certified copy thereof. as by law provided and the termination thereof shall be twenty five years thereafter, with privilege of renewa as provided by law.
 FIFTH: The water now owned by said cor poration by virtue of it's rights. or that 1t may hereafter acquire in aud to the Bunkervillt and Mesquite canals and the waters thereof shall he distributed to it's stockholders in tht following manner: The said company shall pay to the owner of each share of said stock Quan tity of water equal in the aggregate to con | tinuous flow of not less than three-fourths 6 4 miners inch per share
 s xTH: The said waters paid out as dividend. | on each and every share of stock as aforesaid be cumulated and paid periodically as may bt determined by the Board of Directors to be thu | best and most economical method of distribu | tion.
 SEVENTH Sad dividends shall be fully pai( when the waters of which they consist shall bt turned into the private ditches or water way! | of the stockholders at the point where said pri vate dtches or waterways now, or may here after intersect the canals, ditches, or wate ways of said company said points of lntersec ton and distribution to be designated by sai( company.
 EIGHTH: The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by Board of five directors and the following named: Franklin L. Leavitt | Lewis Pulsipher. J. w. Sylvester. Isaac Bur gess Arthur Bunker shall continue as tn, Board Of Directors until their successors ar, elected and qualified
 | The first meeting hereafter for the election | of directors shall be on the second Monday O October, 1909, and thereafter the annual stock holders meeting shall be held on the secont Monday of October of each year.
 Said Board of Directors shall have power tt