Mohave County miner., 1910-02-19
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 Cotton Land Company.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we, the undersgned, have this day asso- ciated ourselves together for the purpose of be- coming incorporated under the laws of the Terri tory of Arizona. for the transaction of a lawful business and for that purpose we do adopt the following Articles of Incorporation, and we here by certify;
 That the names of the corporators of said cor poration are W. l. Hollingsworth, W. J. Hole, D. M. Martin. Louis Evans. and W. J. Burton.
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 That the name of said corporation shall be
 COTTON LAND COMPANY
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 That the principal place of transacting business of said corporation shall be Cottonia, County of Mohave, Territory of Arizona
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 That the general nature of the business propos- ed to be transacted by said corporation is as fol- lows, to-wit:
 To purchase or otherwise acquire lands and other real property and to own, manage, improve, subdivide, sell and otherwise dispose of the same To acquire by deed, gift, will, gran, or other wise, lands tenements, hereditaments, lease-hold estates, water water rights, bonds, notes, bills, claims, evidences of indebtedness, stock of in- corporated companies, franchises, privileges, patent rights and licenses, and every estate, right, interest and appurtenance in, to con- eerning real and personal property of every name and nature legal and equitable and to have and to hold, use and enjoy, manage, control, grant, sign, transfer, and convey, cucumber by mort gage or deed of trust. and otherwise dispose of
  interest therein; to buy and otherwise acquire, hold, own, manage, operate, improve and develop lands mining claims, mineral rights, oil wells gas wells, and other real estate, and all interests and rights in and to any of said property; to engage in and carry the business of boring and ex- ploring for, producing distilling, treating, manu- facturing, piping, transporting, handling, stor- ing, buying, selling, and dealing in oils, petro- leum, naphtha, natural gas, asphaltum, bitumen, bituminous rock other mineral and hydrocarbon substances. and products of all such substances; To purchase, construct, build, manufacture, import and otherwise acquire, to own, improve, repair, maintan alter, equip, store and operate, to sell, at wholesale and retail, export, exchange, or otherwise dispose off, and to deal in any and all kinds of machinery, instruments, apparatus and supplies, locomotive engines, stationary engines, motors, boilers, furnaces, machines, devices, and appliances for the generation, transmission and application of steam electricity and other powers, and any and all kinds of appliances, devices, ma chimes, apparatus and materials used for adapted to the manufacture, construction, im- provement repair, maintenance or equipment of machinery, instruments, appliances, supplies and plants, and to engage in the business of manufac- turing in any and all of it's departments;
 To engage in and carry the business of ranching, farming fruit growing, stock raising, darying, and to engage in and carry the busi- ness of both wholesale and retail merchants of any and all classes and kinds of goods, wares and merchandise;
 To act as agents factors, forwarding agents baee, and to maintain and operate storage ware houses;
 or otherwise acquire, and to hold own, use, op- crate, introduce develop, grant licenses in re- spect of, otherwise turn to account, and to sel assign, or otherwise dispose of, any trade marks trade names, patents inventions improvements processes, or licenses used in connection with, or secured under Letters Patent of the United States or elsewhere;
 To make. execute and enter into contracts with,