Mohave County miner., 1912-09-28
Certificate of Incorporation
 OF Western Arizona Railway Com. pany.

of The Arizona and Utah Railway Company, a raili oad corporation created by and under the pursuant to the judgment and decree of the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona in and for the County of Mohave, the same being a Court of competent Jurisdiction to ARTHUR c. WELLS and THOMAS J. NORTON both of the City of Los Angeles, State of California, as joint ten a, ts and ..ot as tenants in common, and said sale having been duly confirmed by said Court on the twenty-second day of December, l9O5 the said properties, franchises, immunilies, and exemptions were, In pursuance of said de- conveyed to the said ARTHURG WELLS anC THOMAS J. NORTON, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common. who have thereby acquir- ed title to the said properties, franchises i'm. munities and exemptions in the manLer prc- Scribed by law and
 WHEREAS, the said purchasers ARTHUR G. WELLS ana THOMAS J. NORTON have associat ed with themselves the following named per sous, viz: GODFREY HoLTERHoFF. dr., a citi zen of California and residing at Los Angeles, and w. A. DRAKE citizen oi Arizona aLd re- citizen of Arizona and residing at Prescott; and the said purchasers aud tn 1 associates desire to become cor poration pursuant to the laws of the Territory of Arizona in such cases made and provided to wit, paragraph eight hundred and eighty (8SOI of the Revised Statutes of Arizona, of 1901, and as such to take and possess the prop critics franchises, immunities and exemptions appertaining thereto thus sold which were at the tune of sale possessed by said The Ari zona and Utah Railway Company:
 Now, THEaEFoRE, in compliance with the provisions of the iaws of Arizona Territory in such cases made and provided, we, the under. signed ARTHUR G. WALLS and THOMAS J. NORTON, and ,DFREY HoLTEkHoFF, Jr., w. A. DRAKE and PAUL BURKs, being said pur. chasers and their associates do hereby certify:
 First: The name of the corporation whose properties. franchises immunities and exemp- tions appertaning thereto they have acquired Arizona COmDaQV and sad corporation was organized by Articles of Incorporation filed with the secretary of the of Alrll, 1899, under and pursuant to the pro, visions of Chapter 5. Title i2 of the Revised Statutes of Arizona of 1857
 Second: The sale aforesaid was made by authority of the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona in and for the County of MOhave, under and pursuant to judgment or decree authorizing aud directiIg the same, which judgment or decree was made and entered by the said Court on the sixteenth day of October l9O5, at the October, l9J5. Term of the said Court in a certain cause therein pending wherein peti tic was filed against The AriZoba and Utah kail1ay c, ,nIpaLy by The New York Trust Company. as Trustee aud Successor in Trust to Continental Trust Company of the City of New York. u. der mortgage or deed of trust exc cuted by said l he Arizona and Utah Railway Company, dated April twenty lSa9, in favor of said Continental Trust Company of the City of New York; aS Trustee. to secure the lS suance and payment of bonds issued there uuder which said cause was instituted to fore close the aforesaid mortgage or deed of trust, telegraph line properties. franchises, immuni tieG and exemptions hereinafter described were ordered and directed to be sold.
 Third: he following is brief description of the properties sold at said sale:
 The railroad Oi the defendant railway com pany as the same was located and constructed from point on the santa Fe Pacific Railroad now he AtchisOu, Topeka a d Santa Fe Rail- fp1r W n of Kngman, in the County of Mohave in the Territory of A,izuna thence norther)y in said County to point beyond the town of Chloride ad 6 Ince of tive ny five miles or more; Also the telegraph lne of the defendant rail ay company, as the same was located and con structed. from said town of kingman to the initial point of said railroad and thence along said railroad as constructed and completed, a> aforesaid, to the terminus thereof Also all rights of way. road beds. station grounds, depot grounds, yards and all other lands and interests m lands, which the railway company owned at the date of said mortgage, or which It acquired in connection with said railroad since the execution of said mortgage; Also all sidings, turn uts, switches and turntables super structures, bridges trestles, stringers, ties rails. frogs. chairs splices and other rail road appurtenances which the railway company owned at the date of said mortgage and all that it acquired in connection with said rail road since the execution of the mortgage: Also all station houses, depOtS, warehouses. engine houses, car houses, water stations machine shops, office buildings and other structures and fixtures which the railway company owned at the date of said mortgage or which il acquired in connection with said railroad since the exc cutiOn of said mortgage; Also all engin.s tenders cars and other rolling stock and equip ment which the railway company owned at the date Of said mortgage, or which it acquired in connection with or for the use of said rail road since the execution of said mortgage Also all machinery, tools and implements, furniture materials and supplies which the railway company owned at the date of said mortgage or which 1t acquired in connection with or for the use of said railroad since the execution of said mortgage; Also all fran. ties and exemptions which the railway cCm pany had at the date of said mortgage and all which it acquired in connection with or for the purposes of said railroad or by reason of the obstruction thereof sinue the execution of aid mortgage, or which appertains to such ailroad or other property; Also all other railway company owned at the date of said mortgage. and all which it in any way acQuir ed in connection with or as part of or for the use of said railroad since the execution of said mortgage; Also all tolls. revenues income ant profits from any of the aforesaid property ant franchises.
 Fourth: The name of the new corporation intended to be formed by the filing of this cer COMPANY"
 Fifth: The maximum amount of capita
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 into five thousand 5000 shares
 sixth: The affairs of the new corporation shall be managed by five (5) directors. Tn, names and postOfice addresses of the director. for the first year are as follows:
 NAMES PosT OFFICE ADDRESSES
 ARTHUR G. WELLS. Los Angeles, Californi, THOMAS J, NOR TON, Los Angeles Californi, GODFREY HoLrERHoFF. JR.,
 W. A. DRAKE. Prescott, Arizona Territor, PAUL BURKs, Prescott, Arizona Territor;
 Seventh: Previous to the time of such sal