Arizona republican., 1902-10-11

That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves | together for the purpose of forming corporation under the laws of the Ter ritory Of Arizona, and to that end make
 the following statement:
 First: The names of the corporators are A. A. Cass. J. w Ground, Wal | ter Cass, Q. H. Schoenherr and A. M. Wagner and the name of the corpora tion shall be Missouri Gold Mining Company. The principal place in which
 the business of said corporation with ! in the Territory of Arizona is to be | transacted is Phoenix. Maricopa | County, Arizona, and the principal place of business of said corporation outside the Territory of Arizona shall
 be the City of Carterville in the State of Missouri at which meetings of the Board of Directors may be held, and
 the corporation may have such branch
 offices either within or without the Ter ritory of Arizona as may be established
 by the Board of Directors.
 Second: The general nature of the
 business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows, to-wit: To make contracts; to purchase, lease bond, locate or otherwise acquire. own. exchange. sell or otherwise dis
 pose of, pledge mortgage. hypothecate
 and deal in real estate and any and all
 kinds of personal property mines min- l ing claims, oil lands, mineral lands.
 oil. gas, asphaltum, petroleum. asbes- l tos, salt water and water rights and
 machinery, and to work, mine. explore, | operate and develop the same; to do general real estate, manufacturing and
 mercantile business: to own, handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of capital stock of other
 corporations; to borrow money and ex-
 ecute notes, bonds. mortgages or deeds | of trust to secure the same and to exercise in respect of all such bonds.
 mortgages, notes, shares. of capital
 stock and other securities and obliga
 tiQns any and all rights, powers anl privileges of individual owners thereof. | including the right to vote upon any
 shares of stock held by it to the same
 extent that a natural person might or could do: and in general to do all things necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this corporation in the Ter
 ritory and elsewhere. not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and 1 the Territory of Arizona.
 Third: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall | be Two Million dollars (s2,0OO,000) di- vided into Two Million shares of the par value of one dollar (SL0O) each. At
 such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corpora ton either in cash or by the sale and | transfer to it of real or personal pror- erty for the uses and purposes of said corporation, in payment for which shares of the capital stock of said cor
 poration may be issued, and the capital
 stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up
 and non-assessable, and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Directors as to the value Of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 Fourth: The time of the commence
 ment of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the Sec retary of Arizona, and the termination
 thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 Fifth: The affairs of this corpora ton shall be conducted by Board of
 Five Directors and the following named shall constitute the. Board of Directors until their successors are elected: A. A. Cass. J. w. Ground Walter Cass, O. II. Schoenherr and A. NJ. Wagner. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stock
 holders as the bylaws of the corpora tion may provide. The officers of said corporation until their successors arc
 elected shall be: A. A. Cass. President;
 A. M Wagner, Vice President; Wal ter Cass. Secretary; J. w. Ground, Treasurer.
 Sixth: The highest amount of in debtedness or liability. direct or con- tingent, to which this corporation is al any time subject shall be Three Hun
 dred Thousand dollars ($3OO, ,OO0). which amount does not exceed two-thirds the amount of the capital stock.
 Seventh: The private property of the
 stockholders of this corporation shall
 be exempt from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever.
 In Witness Whereof. We have here unto set our hands and seals this day of September, 1902.
 A. "A. t<Afoo totdiJ J. w. GROUND (SeaD w. W. CASS (SeaD A. M. WAGNER (SeaD O. H. SCHOENHERR (SeaD State of Missouri,
 1 County of Jasper, ss.
 | On this 23d day of September, in the l year 1902, before me, Byron D. Mowry,
 d Notary Public in and for the State
 and County aforesaid, residing therein,
 duly commissioned and sworn, person. ally appeared A. A. Cass, J. w. Ground,
 Walter Cass, O. H. Schoenherr and A.
 M. Wagner, known to me to be the per
 sons described in. whose names are subscribed to and who executed the an-
 neXed instrument, and they acknowt- edged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and cOnsidera tions therein expressed.
 | In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto
 set my hand and affixed. my official seal
 at my office in the said State and
 County the day and year last above written.
 i (SeaD BYRON D. MOWRY.