Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-23
Legal Advertisements
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELE. PHONE AND TELEGRAPH
 COMPANY.

PRESENTS, That, WHEREAS, pur- suant to the provisions of the stat utes of Colorado relating to the consolidation Of corporations, the d. rectors of The Colorado Telephone Company and The Tri-State Tele- phone and Telegraph Company. both being corporations organized under the laws Of the State of Colorado, did, at meetings held respectively on the 3Ist day of May. 4. D. 1911 aud the 2sth day of May. A D. 1911, call a meeting Of the stockholders of their said respectiye corporations to De held on the l7th day of July, A. D. 1911, for the purpose of considering a proposition to consolidate the said companies; and
 WHEREAS, at said meetings the stockholders of said companies re- spectively did, on said last mentioned date, by a vote of more than three fourths Of the stock of each com pany, respectively and seyeraliy. ap- prove of the written proposition Of consolidation Of The Colorado Tele- prone Company and The Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company by uniting the properties and con cerns. of said corporations; and
 WHEREAS, the directors of the Colorado Telephone Company did. on tho 17th day of July, A. D. 1911, elect E. B. Field, F. M. Burgess, Philip >Feldhauser, Edwin s. Kass- Ter, Crawford Hill, ". L. Graham and A V. Hunter, as it's proportion Of the directors to manage the affairs Of the consolidated company; and
 WHEREAS. the directors or The Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company did. on the 17th day of July, A D. 1911, elect Edw. B. Field. Jr.. Philip Hamlin, and J. E. Mac donald as its proportion of the di- rectors to manage the affairs of the. consolidated company; and
 WHEREAS, ar a joint meeting of the directors so elected as afore said, the said directors did. on the 17th day Of July, A. D, 1911, elect l.. C. PEipps. Jr.. as a director O. the said consolidated company, aii directors so elected to coBtsitute a board of directors for said con soIidated company; and
 WHEREAS, at said joint meeting of said directors as aforesaid the following persons were elected as officers and to i'll the office set .op- posite their respective names, tO-wit: President ........-. F. 5. Field, list Vice-President Edw. E. Field ,Ir Secretary ........J. '. Macdonald, Assistant Secretary Roderiok Reid, Treasurer .. Edw. B. Field, Jr-, Assistant Treasurer ... ". P, Allen, General Manager ...E. N. Burgess, General Auditor fsoderick Reid;
 WHEREAS. the directors at said joint meeting as aforesaid designated F. B. Field, E. M. Burgess and Rod erlck Reid as the three stockholders of The Colorado Telephone Company and Edw B. Field, Jr., Philip Hamlin and J. F. Macdonald as the three stockholders Of The Tri-State Teia- pkone and Telegraph Company TO sign and acknowledge the certifi- cate of, incorporation for said COR solidated company. prepared and ap- proved by said directors: and
 WHEREAS, by the terms Of said written proposition and agreement Of consolidation approved as afore- said by the stockholders of said companies, the consolidated company is to be known as The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, NOW THEREFORE;
 We, E. B. Field, E. M Burgess. Roderick Reid, Edw. R. Field, IT,, Philip Hanlin aud J. L. Macdonald, an of the city and county Of Den yer and stte of Colorado, do. pur- suant to the statutes in such cases made and provided, and in accord anee with the action taken by the directors and stockholders of The Colorado Telephone Company and The Tri-State Tele7hona and Tele graph Company, and the action of the directors at the joint meeting as aforesaid, do hereby make and execute in CENTUPLICATE this ceT- tificate in writing of our intention to become and to organize a body corporate, as by said laws provided; {; and we do further certify:
 The corporate name and style Of our said corporation shall be THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONI, AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
 II.
 ..The objects and purposes for which said company is incorporated are:
 CD To carry OH general tele- phoiSe business a general telegraph business, a general messenger busi- Eess, and any business involving the transmission Of intelligence by cleo tricity, in the state of Colorado, and in any other state or territory or colony Of the United States. or of any foreign country and particularly in the states or Utah, Wyoming. Ida Do and Montana, and in the terri tories Of Arizona and New Mexico.
 (Z) To construct, lease. purchase by deed, conveyance, assignment or otherwise acquire, and to establish, hold. own. maintain. operate, i'm prove and extend, telephone and telegraph lines and systems. and telephone exchanges. in the diffsr- ent cities and counties of the State 0f Colorado, and in any other state e. territory or colony of the United States or of any foreign county, and partieularly in the different cities and counties of the states Of Utah, Wyo- ming. Idaho and Montana, and in The territories Of Arizona and New Mexico: and to construct. lease. pur- chase or otherwise acquire, and co establish, hold, own. maintain and operatc. improve and extend, tele