The oasis., 1912-10-19
Saturday, October Io, 1912
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 OF TIE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Colorado Telephone Company and The Tri- State Telephone and Telegraph Company, both being corporations organized under the laws of the State of Colorado, did, at meetings held respectively on the Slst day of May, A. D. 19l1 and the 29th day of May, A. D. 1911, call a meet ing ol the stockholders 0f their respective corporations to be held on the l7th day of July A. D. 1911, for the purpose o considering a proposition to consolidate the said conn panies; and
 WHEREAS, at said meetings the stock holders of said companies respectively did. on said last mentioned date by d vote of more than three-fourths of the stock of each com pany. respectively and Severally, approve of the written proposition of consolidation of The Colorado Telephone Company and The Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company, by uniting the properties and concerns of said corporations; and WHEREAS. the directors of The Colorado Telephone Company did, on the l7th day of July, A. D. 1911, elect E. B. Field, E. Nj Burgess. Philip Feldhauser, Edwin $. kassler, Crawford Hill, W. 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 of 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. Macdonald as its proportion of the directors to manage the affairs of the consolidated company; and
 WHEREAS, at a joint meeting of the direc- tors so elected as aforesaid, the said directors did, on the l7th day of July, A. D. l9ll elect L. c. Phipps, Jr., as director of the said consoli-
 
 constitute board of directors for said consoi- dated company and
 WHEREAS at said joint meeting of said directors as aforesaid the following persons were elected as officers and to fill the office set opposite their respective names, to-wit
 President E. B. Field
 First Vice President Edw B. Field Jr.,
 Assistant Assistant secretary Roderiek Reid
 Assistant Treasurer W.P Allen,
 General Manager E. NJ. Burgess,
 General Auditor ROderiek Reid and WHEREAS the directors at said joint meet ing as aforesaid designated E. E. Field, E NJ Burgess and Roderck Reid as the three stock holders of The Colorado Telephone Company, and Edw. B. Field, Jr., Philip HamIin and E Macdonald as the three stock khOlders of The Tr-State Telephone and Telegraph Company to sign and acknowledge the certificate of in corporation for said consolidated company prepared and approved by said directors and
 WHEREAS by the terms of said written proposition and agreement of consolidation approved as aforesaid by the stockholders of said companies, the consolidated company is to be known as The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, NOW THEREFORE; We, k. Field, | NJ. Burgess ROderick Reid EdW. B. Field JT., Philip Hamlin and J. k. Macdonald, all of the city and county of Denver and state of Colorado, do, pursuant to the statutes in such cases made and provided, and in accordance with the action taken by the directors and stockholders or The Colorado Telephone Company and The Tri-State Teie- phone and Telegraph Company, and the action of the directors at the joint meeting as afore said, do hereby make and execute in CENTU PLICATE this certificate in writing of our in- tention to become and to organize body corporate, as by said laws provided; and we do further certify
 The corporate name and style of our said corporation shall be THE MOUTAIN STATES TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
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 The objects and purposes for which said company is incorporated are:
 C) To carry on general telephone business d general telegraph business, general mes senger business, and any business involving the transmission of intelligence by electricity, 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 of Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Mon tana, and in the territories of Arizona and New Mexico
 (2) To contract, lease, purchase by deed, conveyance assignment or otherwise acquire, and to establish, hold, own, maintain, Operate, improve and extend telephone and telegraph lines and systems and telephone exchanges, in the different cities and counties of the state of Colorado. and in any other state or territory country, and particularly in the different cities and counties of the states of Utah, Wy oming, Idaho and Montana, and in the terri tories of Arizona and New Mexico; and to construct, lease purchase or otherwise acquire. and to etabish hold, own, maintain and operate improve and extend, telephone and telegraph lines anu systems between the differ ent towns and cities in the state of Colorado, andin any other state or territory or colony of the United States, or oi any foreign country, and particularly in the states of Utah, Wyom- ing Idaho and Montana, and the territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and to collect tolls and charges for the transmission of messages or conversations along, on or over said lines or systems
 (3) To contract for acquire by lease, pur- chase, deed, conveyance, assignment or other wise and to hold, own, maintain, operate improve and extend, the physical property, exchanges wires, poles, conduits, apparatus of every kind or character, business, franchises and all other rights, whether accrued or ac- auired under or granted by constitutional legislative or municipal enactment, or by general laws or otherwise of telephone and telegraph companies, wherever or howsoeyer organized, domcied or operated, now or here after operated, located or domiciled in the state of Colorado or in any other state or ter ritory or colony of the United States, or of any foreign country, and parti .uarly in the states