The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1903-04-18
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
CONSOLIDATED DEVELOPMENT
COMPANY.

KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
That we whose hands are hereunto affixed. do
hereby associate ourselves together for the pur
pose of forming n corporation under the laws
of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end
make the following statement:
EIRST-Ihe names of the corporatOrs
William II. Seamon, citizen of III Paso, Texas;
George II. GambrilI, citizen of Park-rsburg,
West Virginia; GeorgeW. A Atkinson, citizen
of Charleston, West Virginia;C. II. Merkel,
citizen of Wheeling. West Virginia; w. II. An
derson. u citizen of Wheeling. West Virginia;
AMI the name of the corporation shall be
CONSOLIDATED DEVELOPMENT COM
PANY. the principal place i'll which the
business of said corporation within the Terri
tory of Arizona is to be transacted Is
Nogales, County of Santa Cruz, Arizona
and the principal place of cuisines of said
corporation outside of the Territory of Ariz-
Ona, shall DE the City of Wheeling. County of
Ohio State of West Virginia, at which meet
ings of the Board of Directors may be held,
and the poratlOn may have such branch
offices either within or without the Territory
of Arizona may he established by the Board
of Dire to. :, and bylaws of said corporation.
SECOND The general nature of the business
PROPOSED to b transacted is as follows, to wit:
To own ami operate coal mines, wood and coal
yards, purchase, lease, bond. locate or
otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell or other
wise dispose of pledge, mortgage. hypothecatc
and deal in Real Estate and any aud all kinds
of personal property, mines, mining claims,
oil lands, mineral lands, oil, gas, asphaltum.
Petroleum, asbestos. salt, water and water
rights and machinery and to work. mine. ex-
plore. and .velop same; to build and o,crate
smelterS. concentration plants. st mp mills,
pipe LINES, tramwaS ra. lrnads. ore wagon roads;
to do general mercantile and manufacturing;
business, to do general r. al estate business,
to own and handle and control letters, patent
and inventions and shares of capital stock of
other companies and corporations, to borrow
money and execute notes bonds, mortgage. or
deed of trust, to secure same, and to exercise
in respect Of all such bonds, mortgages, notes,
shares of capital stock and other securities and
obligations, any and all rights, powers and
privileges of individual owners thereof. inclEd-
ing the right to vote upon any shares of stock
held by it to the same extent that private in
dividual q natural person might could do,
and in general to do all things necessary to the
proper conduct of this corporation and the
business thereof, not inconsistent with laws of
the United States and the Territory of Ariz-
ona, to build and operate for it's own use Tele-
graph and Telephone lines to its properties to
have n Corporate Seal to and to be sued.
to contract and be contracted with and to do
business in any and all foreign countries, that
the said corporation may desire to establish
branch Offices, or do business in. To build and
operate oil reiineries, to Guy and sell minerals
and to refine same within o without the Terri
tory of Arizona.
THIRD-The authorized amount of capital
stock of this corporation shall be two million
and five hundred Thousand dollars, divided into
250OO0 shares of the par value of Ten lSl0.0ol
dollars each. At sach time as the Board of