The oasis., 1912-10-26
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That, WHEREAS. pursuant to the provisions of the statutes of Colorado relating to the con- sohdatiOn of corporations, the directors of The Colorado Telephone Company and The Fri State Telephone and Telegraph Company, both being corporations organized under the laws of the State of Colorado, did, at meetings held respectively on the 3lst day of May, A. D. 1911 and the 29th day of May, A. D. 1911, call meet ing of the stockholders of their respective corporations to be held on the l7th day of July, A. D. 1911, for the purpose of considering proposition to consolidate the said companies; and
 WHEREAS at said meetings the stock. holders of said companies respectively did, on said last mentioned date, by 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
 Telephone Company did, on the l7th day of July A. D. l9l1 elect E. B. Field, k. NJ. Burgess. Philip Feldhauser. Edwin s. Kassler, Crawford Hill, W. L. Graham and A. V. Hunter, as its 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 Hamiin, and J. E. Macdonald as it's proportion of the directors to manage the affairs of the consolidated company; and
 WHEREAS, at 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- dated company, all directors so elected to cohstitute board of directors for said consoli- 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 l. . E. B. Field
 First Vice President Edw. B. Field Jr,,
 Assistant Secretary . Roderick Reid
 Treasurer Edw. B. Field Jr.,
 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. B. Field, E M Burgess and Roderick Reid as the three stock holders of The Colorado Telephone Company, and Edw. B. Field Jr., Philip Hamlin and Macdonald as the three stockholders Of The Tri-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 0y 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, k NJ. Burgess, ROderick Reid, Edw. B. Field, Jr, Philip Hamlin and J. E. 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 of The Colorado Telephone Company and The TriState Tele 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 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 M0UTAIN STATES TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
 The objects and purposes for which said company is incorporated are:
 O) 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 omng, Idaho and Montana, and in the terri tories of Arizona and New Mexico; and tC construct lease, purchase or otherwise acquire and to etablish, hold, own, maintain anC operate, improve and extend, telephone anf telegraph lines ana systems between the differ ent towns and cities in the state of Colorado and in any other state or territory or colony o the United States, or of any foreign country and particularly in the states of Utah, Wyom ing, Idaho and Montana and the territories o Arizona and New Mexico, and to collect toll and charges for the transmission of message or conversations along, on or over said lines o 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 conduiJs, apparatus o every kind or character, business, franchise and all other rights, whether accrued or aC quired under or granted by constitutional legislative or municipal enactment, or b general laws or otherwise, of telephone an telegraph companies, wherever or howsoeve oil ad or tad n0 or bora