The border vidette., 1903-06-13
ING. SIMPLIFYING AND REFINING

ING. SIMPLIFYING AND REFINING ! COMPANY. The principal place in | which the business of said corporations l shall be transacted within the Territory ! of Arizona shall be Nogales, Santa Cruz l County, Arizona, with branch offices ! at such places in the United States and the Republic of Mexico, as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct. at any of which places all meeting of the stock holders and Board of Direc- tors may be held, and all business transacted.
 SECOND Tho general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows, to wit: To purchase, lease. bond. locate or otherwise acquire. own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, III ort- gage, hypOthecate, and deal In mines, inning claims. oil lands, mineral lands oil, gas, asphaltum, petroleum, water and water rights, and to work, mine, explore and develope the same; to do d general real estate and mercantile business; to own, handle and control letters patent and inventions; to borrow money and execute mortgages or deeds of trust to secure the same; to build and own dams, canals, fumes, ditches and other means may be necessary to divert. iInpound or conduct water, and to use the same fer irrigation. and to generate power to be used as such. or to be con verted into electricity or electrIc power may be desired. and to use, sell, rent or otherwise dispose of the same; to build, construct or otherwise provide lines for the transmission of electricity or electric power, and to equip the same: to build, own, equip and operate railway, telegraph and Jele- phone lines from its mines and works to q connection with other lines; to buy, own, hold and dispose Sf the stock or bonds of other corporations, and in general to do all things necessary to properly conduct the business of this corporation in the Territory of Arizona and elsew here, not inconsistent with the laws Of the Territory of Arizona and the United States.
 THIRD The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be Ten Million (SlO, 900. 0O0 O0) Dollars, divided into One Million Shares or the par value of Ten lSl0.O0. Dollars each. At such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corpor- ation, either in cash or by the sale and transfer to il of real and personal prop 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 all of the capital stock issued by the company shall be fully. paid up and non -assess- able
 FoURTE-The time Of the commence ment of this corporation shall be the oate of the filing of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the Auditor of the Territory of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 FIFTH The affairs of this corpor- ation shall be conducted by d Board of five or more Directors, who shall be elected annually by the stock holders of the corporation. Until the first apcTal rnaafipn the fOIlOwInU persons shall constitute the Board of Directors: J L. Sheperd. James McCallun aud N- k. Staley, of Nogales. Arizona; Pros perO Sandoval of NOgales, Sonora, Mex ico; and NJ. K. Gantz of Troy, Ohio; and the following persons are hereby constituted and appointed officers until the first annual meeting, and until their successors are elected and qualhed: J L. Sheperd, President; James Me Callum, Nice-President; Prospero San dOval Treasurer, and N K. Staley Secretary. The stock holders repre- senting d ma aiority of the outstanding stock shall have full power to adopt such By-La.v .vs for the government of this corporation as to them may seem proper.
 SIXTH Highest amount of in- debtedness or liability. direct con tengent. to which this corpora tion is at any time subject, shall be Two Mil lion B 2,0U0, 900 U0) Dollars.
 SEVENTH The private property of the stock holders of this corporation shall be exempt from corporate cebts of any kind whatsoever.
 EIGHTH meeting of the stock holders shall be held at the city of No gales. County of Santa Cruz, Territory of Arizona, on the second Monday in January in each and every year for the purpose o. electing directors and for such other purposes as may be necess- ary and proper.
 tN WITNESS WHEREOF; We have hereunto set our hands and seals this tenth day of June A. D., 1903.
 J $. SHEPHERD SEAL
 JAMES ACCALEUM SEAL
 N. K. STALEG
 PROSPERO SANDONAL SEAL
 A1 k. GANTZ, SEAL.