The oasis., 1907-02-23
ARTICLES or 1NCORPORAT1ON
 -oF TIE SONORA AND SOUTHWESTERN MINES
 COMPANY.
OF TIE

ARTICLE |. tue u0ueTSlSneu, AndfIcS W
 Bolen, Cyrus J. Mitzel and Benjamin $. Phil
 lips, each of whom is a resident of the United
 States of America, do hereby associate them
 selves together and continue as body cor
 porate under the Laws of the Territory of Ari
 zona, for the purpose of taking and possessin,
 all the rights powers, and privileges conferred
 by law on corporations.
 ARTICLE II. The name of this corporation
 and by which it shall be authorized to act il
 THE SONORA AND SOUTHWESTERN MINES COMPANY"
 ARTICLE III. The names of the Incorporation are Charles w. Bolen, Cyrus J. MitZel and Ben
 jamin s. Phillips, and the principal office ol place of transacting of business of this corpor atiOn shall be in the town of Nogales, Sants Cruz County, Territory or Arizona; but branch offices may be established and maintained al such other place or places, either in the United States of America or in the Republic of Mexico as the Board of Directors may, from time to time determine, at any of which offices meet ings of the stockholders and Directors may be held and all business transacted.
 ARTICLE ". The general nature of the busi- ness proposed to be transacted by this CorpOr- ation is to locate, buy, bond, acquire, hold own, lease, possess, operate or sell or otherwise dispose of mines and mining claims, or pros poets of gold, silver or copper and all other minerals and all kinds of mineral lands or properties; to buy, lease, or otherwise acquire, to hold and own, manage, operate, improve mortgage, sell or convey or otherwise dispose of any developed or undeveloped lands, con- sessions, franchises, mining claims, oil wells and any and all other real estate and interests in any of said properties; to engage in the building and erection of stamp mills, smelters, reduction plants and other mills and the oper- ating of the same; extracting precious metals. boring, digging, drilling, tunneling and ex- ploring for, producing refining, treating, pip ing, handling, storing, dealing in, buying and selling gold and silver, copper, coal, iron, oil, lead zinc salt petroleum, mineral gas, as phaltum, bitumen, bituminous rock and all other minerals and hydro-carbon substances, and for such purposes to buy, contract for, lease or otherwise acquire, hold, own, manage, operate, mortgage or sell or otherwise convey refineries, pipe lines tanks ears, manufactures, machinery and other works property and ap- pliances and rights of way that may be neces- sary, or convenient or appurtenant for the purposes of said Corporation; to manufacture electricity; to carry on and control a general merchandise, forwarding, commission and storage business and to that end to deal in any and all commodities of every kind conducive to the successful conduct of said business; to buy, procure, hold own, sell, construct, equip, mortgage, maintain and operate telephone lines exchanges and stations railroads, tram ways, stage lines, automobiles and any and all other kinds of communication and transporta- tion facilities including equipments thereof and therefor, for mining CT transporting, or for other lawful uses or business; to own, han dle or control Letters Patent and inventions ; to purchase or otherwise acquire, own, hold pledge. hypOthecate, guarantee, sell or other wise dispose of the capital stock of other cor p0ratiOns and also bonds, debentures, bills prOmissOTy notes. mortgages and pledges of other partnerships, firms, corporations. person or persons, and while the owner of any such stock, bonds, debentures bills, promissory nOtes mortgages and pledges to exercise all the rights and privileges Of ownership including the right to vote thereon to the same extent that natural person might or could do to draw, accept make, endorse and discount, ex- ecute and issue promissory notes, drafts bills of exchange, warrants bonds, debentures and other negotiable and transferable instruments; to issue bonds and to sell or hypothecate the same, and to secure the payment Of the same f.prfr f.v tt rfze r.f the property of the Corporation, subject, how ever to the conditions and limitations pro- Vided in Article VIII of these Articles of Incor- pOration: t0 guarantee the payment of dvi- dends or interest on any shares, stocks. bonds, debentureS. and any contract or obligation, issued by or entered into by any other cOrpor- atiOn, whenever proper or necessary for the business Of this Corporation, in the judgment of it's Board of Directors to make and enter into contracts of every sort and kind with any individual, firm, association or corporations to sell or issue all or any part of its capital stock, or any bonds, debentures, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness authorized by its Board Of Directors not in conflict with the limitations prescribed in Article VIII of these Articles of Incorporation, in payment for any interest, rights, business, personal property real estate, options or lease thereon, of any person, firm. association or corporation and the judgment of it's Board of Directors ss to the value of such interest. rights business, real estate, personal property, options or lease thereon, shall, in the absence of actual fraud, be cOncluslYe; to hOld purchase CT reissue and sell the shares of it's capital stock, subject however, to the restrictions and limitations imposed by Article of these Articles of h. corporation to do all and everything necessary, suitable or proper for the accomplishment of any of the purposes, or the attainment of any one or more of the objects herein enumerated, or which shall at any time appear conducive or expedient for the protection or benefit Of the Corporation either as a holder of, or as an interested party in any property or rights whatsoever; to do any and all things herein set forth to the same extent that natural persons might or could do in the proper con duct of the business of this Corporation in the Territory of Arizona and elsewhere, and not in- consistent with the laws of the United States of America, Territory of Arizona and the Re public of Mexico.
 It is the intention of the Incorporators that the objects specified in these Articles shall ex- cept where otherwise expressed be in no wise limited or restricted by reference tc or by in ference of the terms of any other paragraph or clause therein; that the objects specified in each of the clauses of this certificate. and the