Arizona republican., 1902-10-12

That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming q lcorporation 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, O. 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 l 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- ing claims, oil lands, mineral lands. oil, gas, asphaltum, petroleum asbes- | 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- tions any and all rights, powers and privileges of individual owners thereof. including the right to vote upon any shares of stock held by 1t 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 the Territory of Arizona.
 Third: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be Two Million dollars (s2000,000) di- vided into Two Million shares of the par value of one dollar ($1.00) each. Al such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corpora tion either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it Of real or personal pror- erty for the uses and purposes of said corpora ton, 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 tion shall be conducted by a 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. H. Schoenherr and A. NJ. Wagner.
 Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stock holders as the bylaws of the corpora ton 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 (S3OO OOO), 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 P of September, 1902.
 f A. A. CASS (Seal) |. J. w. GROUND (Seal) 3 w. w. CASS (Seal' {, A. NJ. WAGNER (Seal, O. H. SCHOENHERR '(Seal' t State of Missouri,
 ! County of Jasper, ss.
 On this 23d day of September, in tho
 year 1902, before me, Byron D. Mowry ' a Notary Public in and for the Stat' and County aforesaid, residing therein T 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 arr
 subscribed to and who executed the an
 nexed instrument, and they acknowi |, edged to me that they executed tn h same for the purposes and considers
 tions therein expressed.
 In Witness Whereof, have hereunt; set my hand and affixed my official sea
 at my office in the said State ano
 County the day and year last abov n written.
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