The copper era and Morenci leader., 1922-10-13
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of DUNCAN VALLEY UTILITIES AND SUPPLIES CORPORATION


 We the undersigned, in order to form a corporation for the purposes hereinafter stated under and pur- suant to the provisions of Title g of the Revised Statutes of Arizona, A. D. 1913, and Acts amendatory there to, do hereby certify as follows:
 ART. 1.
 The name of the Corporation is Duncan Valley Utilities and Supplies Corporation
 ART 2.
 The names, residences and post | office addresses of the coporators l are J. R. Jones whose residence and post office address is Duncan, Arizona; Geo. A. Lunt, whose resi- Duncan, Arizona; J. F. McGrath, whose residence and post office ad- dress is Franklin, Arizona. ART. 3. The principal place of business of the corporation is Duncan, Arizona, but the corporation is authorized to maintain offices and places of busi- ness at other places within the State | of Arizona, or in other states or 1 foreign countries. The name of the l agent of the corporation, upon whom all notices and processes including service of summons, may be served, is J. R. Jones, whose residence and post office address is Duncan, Ari zona.
 ART. 4.
 The total authorized capital stock of the corporation is twenty-five thousand dollars divided into twenty fie thousand shares of stock of the : par value of one dollar each. Stock ], may be paid for in cash, negotiable instruments. services or property, , and the determination of the Board of Directors as to the value of ser :, vices or property taken in exhcange } for shares of stock shall be final and conclusive. All stock when issued shall be and become thereupon fully ! paid and non assessable. ART. 5. The corporation shall commence upon the date of the filing of these J Articles in the office of the County ! 1 Recorder of the County of Greenlee r Arizona, and shall terminate twenty five years thereafter; but the corpora n tion may be renewed from time to tim n for periods not exceeding twenty-fiv years when three fourths of the vote cast at any stockholders meetin , duly called and held for such pul pose shall be in favor of such re newal.
 ART. 6.
 The highest amount of indebted IT ness or liability, direct or contingen y to which the corporation is at an st time to subject itself is the sum ( S twelve thousand five hundred do 'e lars. The private property of stocl hn1 el, hn o crate debts.
 The affairs of the corporation sha be conducted by board of director of not less than three nor more tha - five members; and president, SC a retary and treasurer chosen by u ee board from among their member ID. The board of directors shall or elected by the stockholders at eaC regular annual meeting of stoc holders which meeting shall be he the First Monday of the Month
 June of each year. Until their su cessors be elected and shall qualif ln- the following shall constitute tl he directors and officers of the corpo1 Ill tion:
 ng J. R. JONES, President and Dire lp- tor.
 cts GEO. A. LUNT. Secretary and ] cid rector.
 J. F. McGRATH, Treasurer a . Director.
 The general nature of the busine
 to be transacted by the corporati zsS is as follows; %
 To acquire, own, lease, buy, s' mortgage, hypothecate. maintain, c duct and operate electric light plan
 gas plants, water works, pow
 plants, and public utilities of ev'
 kind and character and to devel
 generate, manufacture and sell {
 dispose of the products of such pla
 and public utilities, as a public s
 vice corporation or otherwise.
 To manufacture, buy, sell or otl
 wise deal in butter, ice, and all
 evry kind of farm dairy or live st
 products.
 H To purchase, acquire, own, oper E and conduct storage plants H houses. warehouses, dairies, H granaries, and to deal in, buy 5 sell, all classes and kinds of prod E as commission merchants, owners zzz7Ea otherwise.
 . To acquire. lease, own. mOrtg;
 sell and dipose Of real and persC BE property of every character ne E sary to the uses and purposes of H corporation.
 ' To issue bonds or other obligati s in payment for property purche g or acquired or for any other Ob N in or about the business Of the @ poration. To mortgage or pie
 bonds or other obligations or E property that may be acquired H the corporation. To make and E form contracts of every kind s character And in carving on ! E business and for the purpose of ! i3 taiuing or furthering any of it's a iects. to do any and all other and things, and to exercise any FEE all powers which a co-partn ershiI . natural person could do or eXer and which now or hereafter may authorized by law. -ES IN WITNESS WHEREOF we hereuntO set our hands this 1Gth