Arizona republican., 1918-12-11
Dated Dec. 9Th, 1918.

Dated Dec. 9th, 1918.
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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
CHA LAND, WATER AND CATTLE
COMPANY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRES
ENTS:
That we, the undersigned persons,
do hereby associate ourselves together
for the purpose of forming a corpora
ton under the laws of the State of
and we do hereby provide
and declare the following Articles of
Incorporation, to wit
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The name of the corporation shall
be ''GILA LAND, WATER AND CAT
TILE COMPANY" and the principal
place of business in Phoenix, Arizona.
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The names of the incorporators are
Hugh S. Maxwell, whose postoffice adj
dress is Phoenix, Arizona; Charles W.
Smith whose postoffice address is
Phoenix, Arizona; F. Louis thinner
nix, Arizona.
The general nature of the business
proposed to be transacted by this cor
poration shall be, as follows, to-wit:
To raise, rent, buy, sell. market, feed
and hypothecate livestock, to-wit;
horses, cattle, mules, sheep, goats,
COWS, calves, and to engage in trade
of every and all live stock.
To farm, lease, rent, trade, buy, sell
and hypothecate real estate, and to
operate dairies and maintain the same.
To buy, sell, produce, raise, trade,
exchange and market farm products of
whatsoever nature necessary for the
maintenance, operation and promotion
of the general objects of this corpora
ton.
To build, equip and install pumping
plants and to develope water supplies
for irrigation purposes and for such
other purposes as will tend to promote
the general objects of this corporation.
To construct, maintain and operate
canals and irrigation bitches and nee
essary laterals in order to promote and
carry out the general intents and well
fare of this corporation.
To sell, rent and lease irrigation
water developed by this corporation
and to maintain pumping systems for
that purpose.
The authorized capital stock of this
corporation is Two Hundred Fifty
Thousand Dollars, divided into Twenty
five thousand shares of the par value
of Ten Dollars each.
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The affairs of this corporation shall
be conducted by q board of three di-
rectors and not more than seven, and
Hugh S. Maxwell, Charles W. Smith
and F. Louis Iii 'erman, shall hereby
constitute the fist board of directors
of this corporation, and they shall hold
office until their successors are elected
and qualified.
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The annual meeting of the stock.
holders shall be on the first Monday ii
January and there shall be an annua
meeting of the stockholders on the frs
Monday in January in each year there
after for the election of a board of di.
| rectors and the transaction of suci
other business as may properly com,
before such meeting. All vacancie:
occurring in said board of director:
may be filled by the remaining mem
| bers thereof, even though the same b,
less than a majority.
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| The time of the commencement ant
| termination of this corporation shall
| be as follows, to wit; the time of com
mencement shall be the date of the is
suance to it of a certificate of incor
| poration by the Arizona Corporation
/ Commission, and they termination
thereof twenty five years thereafter.
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The highest amount of Indebtedness
or liability to which the corporation i
at any time to subject itself is On
| Hundred sixty thousand. six hundre,
| and siXty-six G. 100 Dollars (S166,
666.6O, and the debts contracted or at
tempted TO be contracted in excess o
the said sum shall be void.
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The private property of the stock
holders of this corporation shall b
forever exempt from its corporal
debts.
| F. Louis Zimmerman, a bona fid
resident of the State of Arizona, TO
three go years and more, whose post
| office address is 212-214 Noll Building
in said City of Phoenix, is hereby ap
| pointed and shall be the resident an
statutory agent of this corporation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we hav
| hereunto set our hands and seals thi:
the 9Th day of December, 1918
HUGH S. MAXWELL,
CHARLES w. SMITH,
T. LOUIS ZIMMERMAN.
STATE OF ARIZONA,
MARICOPA COUNTY, S. s.:
On this 9th day of December, 1911
before me. Charles J. McElroy, No
tary Public in and for the County {
Maricopa, State of Arizona, PERSONAL
appeared Hugh S. Maxwell, Charles "
Smith, and F. Louis Zimmerman
known to me to be the persons de
scribed in and who executed the fore
going articles of Incorporation, an
they and each of them acknowledge
to me that they executed the same fo
the purposes and consideration therei
expressed.
WITNESS my hand and seal of Of
flee, this, the 9Th day of December, !
D., 1918.
My commission eXuires July 1, 1872
CHAS. J. McELROY,
Notary Publ
Filed in the office of the Arizon
Cooperation Commission this 9Th da
of December, A. D. 1918 at 10000 I
. NJ. a request of f. L. ZIMMERMAN
whose postoffice address is Phoeni
Arizona
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