The oasis., 1912-11-02
cERTIFICATE OF INCoRPoRATIoN
 OF THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

selidation of corpora tions, the directors of The Colorado Telephone Company and The I'll state Telephone and Telegraph Company, both being corporations organized under the laws of the State of Colorado, did at meetings held respectively the S1st day ,of May, A, D. 1911 and the 29th day of May 4. D. 1911, call meet ing of the stockholders of their respective .corpofations to be held on the l7th day of July, A. D. l9l1 for the purpose Of considering a preposition 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 many respectively and severally approve of | the written proposition Of consolidation or The Colorado Telephone Company and The | Tri.State Telephone and Telegraph Company, by uniting the properties and concerns oi salu i .cOfporatlonSi and lWHEREAS the directors of The Colorado | Telephone Company dla' ia,t on the N'4 pr. uay oI Philip Feldhauser. Edwin Kassler, GrawIord | Hill w L. Graham and A. " Hunter. as its ] proportion of the directors to manage the sffairs of the consolidated company; and WHEREAS, the directors of the Tri-State i Telephone and Telegraph Company did on the l7th day of July, A. D. l9ll elect Edw B Field, Jr., Philip Hamlin, and J. E. Macdonald sas it's proportion of the directors to manage the affairs of the consolidated company and WHEREAS, at a Joint meeting ot the diree- tors SO elected as aforesaid, the said directors did on the l7th day of July, A. D. 1911, elect b. -G4Phpps Jr., as B director of the said consoli- lated company all directors so elected to .onsttute board Of directors TOT Salu cohsoH- Anted company; and
 WHEREAS, at said joint meeting oi said directors as aforesaid the following persons Sere elected as officers and to i'll the once set ppOsite their respective names, to-wlt;
 President E. b. Flelu
 First Vice President Edw B. Field, IT,
 Secretary saorst.rv R Rddesee a MeedSaaip Reid
 Treasurer Edw. B. Field, Jr.,
 Assistant Treasurer ". P. Allen, General Manager E. M Burgess,
 WHEREAS the directors at said joint meet ing as aforesaid designated E. E Field, NJ. Burgess and Roderick Reid as the three stock holders of The Colorado Telephone Company and Edw B. Field, JE,T Philip Hamlin and E. Macdonald as the three stockholders ot The Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company n sign and acknowledge the certificate ot ln- .ornnration for said consolidated company, prepared and approved by said directors ana WHEREAS, by the terms of said written proposition and agreement or cohsoIi9atlolii pprOved as aforesaid by the stockholders or aid companies the consolidated company IS O be known as The Mountain states leieph9ne nd Telegraph Company, NOW IHEK6Fokh We E. B Field, NJ. Burgess, houeTick Reid Edw B. Field, Jr., Philip Hamlln ana J c. Macdonald, all of the city and county o Denver and state of Colorado, do pursuant tc the statutes in such cases made ana provided and in accordance with the action taken by the directors and stockholders oI me ColoIado Telephone Company and The Trl-State leie nhOue 9s of the directors at the joint meeting as aiore- TOT said, do hereby make and execute in CENIU PLICATE this certificate in writing of our III tention to become and to organize pod. corporate, as by said laws providedi ana WI do further certify
 The corporate name and style of our sai corporation shall be THE M0UTAlN STATE TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
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 The objects and purposes for which sai company is incorporated are;
 Q) To carry on general telephone business a general telegraph business, general me- senger business and any business involvln zhe transmission of ofintelligence by electricity in the state of Colorado, and in any othe state or territory or colony of the United state or of any foreign country, and particularly the states of U tah, Wyoming, Idaho and MOI tana, and III the terrltOrles ol ArlIoha ah (2l To contract lease, purchase by dee' Conveyance assignment or otherwise acqulr and to establish. hold. own, maintain, operat improye and extend, telephone and teegrap lines and systems. and telephone exchange in the different cities and counties of the sta of Colorado and in any other state or terrlool country and particularly i'll the dlnerel cities and counties of the states oi Utah, W oming Idaho and Montana, and In the terl tories of Arizona and New Mexicoi and construct, lease. purchase or otherwise acqulr and to etablish, hold, own, maintain al operate, improve and extend, telephone al telegraph lines ana systems between the dine ent towns and cities in the state of Colorad and in any other state or territory or colony the United states or of any foreign countT and particularly in the states ot Utah, Wyo ing idaho and Montana, and the territories Arizona and New Mexico, and to collect to and charges for the transmission oi messag or conversations along, on or over said lines systems.
 (S) To contract for, acquire by lease, pl chase. deed conveyance, assignment or oth wise, and to hold, own, maintain, opera improve and extend, the physical proper exchanges wires, poles, conduits, apparatus every kind or character, business, franchi and all other rights whether accrued or <Iuired under or granted by constitution legislative or municipal enactment or
 general laws or otherwise, of telephone a telegraph companies, wherever or howsoe' organized, domicIed or operated, now or he after operated, located or domiciled in 1 state of Colorado, or in any other state 9 or '