Mohave County miner., 1910-02-12
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 Cotton Land Company.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
 That we, the undersigned, 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 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. HollingswoIth. w; J. Hole, D.. NJ. Martin. Louis Evans, and w. J. Burton
 That the name of said corporation shall be
 COTTON LAND COMPANY
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 of said corporation shall be Cottona, 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, grant, 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 or con- cerning real and personal property of every name and nature legal and equitable, and to have and to hold use and enjoy, manage, control, grant, as sign, transfer, and convey, cucumber by mort gage deed of trust and otherwise dispose of the same, and every part and parcel thereof, or 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 on the business of boring and eX- ploring for producing, distiling, treating, manu- featuring, 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, maintain, alter equip, store and operate to sell, at whoesal and retail, export, exchange or otherwise dispose of and to deal in any and all kinds of machinery, instruments, apparatus and supplies, locomotive engines, stationary engines, motors, boilers, furnaces machines, devices, and aDpliances for the generation, transmission and and any and all kinds of appliances, devices, ma- chimes, apparatus and materials used for or adapted to the manufacture, construction, i'm 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, dairying, and to engage in and carry on the busi- ness of both wholesale and retail merchants of any and all classes and kinds of goods and merchandise;
 To act as agents factors. forwarding agents, bailee. 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 sell 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.