The border vidette., 1911-07-08
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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE SONORA PACIFIC MINING COMPANY.
JULY 8, 1911.


 KNOW ALL MEN DY THESE PRE- SEETS, that we, the undersigned, hay ing associated ourselves for the purpose of forming corporation under Chapter II of Title XIII of the Revised Statutes thereof and supplemental thereto, do hereby adopt the following as the Ar ticles of Incorporation for said pro- posed corporation:
 AsTicLE The name of the cor poration shall be ..SONORA PACIFIC MINING COMPANY and its prin- cipal place of business shall be No- gales. A rizona, but other offices may be established and main tafned In kan- sRs City. Missouri, or elsewhere within or outside of Arizona at such places as the Board or Directors may designate where meetings of stock holders and directors may be held.
 ARTICLE II. The general nature'of the business proposed to be transacted by'tEis corporation is that of mining, milling, converting, preparing for mar ket, and otherwise producing and deal iug in gold, silver, copper. lead, zine, brass. iron, steel and all kinds of ores. metals, and minerals, oils, gas, and coal, and the products, and by-pro- ducts thereof; the corporation shall have power to purchase. lease. or other wise acquire. own, exchange. mortgage, hypOthecate, sell, lease and otherwise dispose ot and deal ia mines and min- erRi lands of all kinds, oil, coal, and timber lands, real and personal prop erty, water and water rights, and to work. explore, operate and develop the same; to purchase or otherwise ac- quire, erect, own, operate, and dispose of smelting and other ore red duction works, oil refineries, saw mills, and power plants; to acquire. own and hold eanch and agricultural lands, and all other kinds of real estate, and any estate therein, and to sell, mortgage, lease. or otherwise dispose of the same; capital stock and that of other cor porations, and to vote any shares of stock owned and hold by it in other corporations, the same as natural person might or could do; and in general to do and perform any and all of such acts and things and to transact such business in connection with the fore- going objects; not inconsistent with law, in the Territory of Arizona, and in any ether state or territory of the United States of America, and in any state of the Mexican United States, and else- where, as the Board of Directors Of said corporation may deem to be to the advantage Of the corporation.
 ARTICLE III. The capital stock Of 4hia corporation shall be Two Million Dollars, (S2 900, 900 00.) divided into two million shares of the par value of one dollar each. which shall be paid for at such times and in such manner as the Board or Directors may designate. All or any portion of the capital stock may be issred.ip pay rtent for real or personal property. services. or any other right or thing of value for the uses and purposes of the corporation, and when so issued shall become and be fully paid, the same as that paid shall be the sole judge of the value of any. property, right, or thing acquired in exchange for the capital stock, or any part thereof. No shares of capital stock shall be issued until fully paid for, and thereafter shall be non-assess- able
 ARTICLE ". The commencement of the existence of the corporation shall | be tke day on which these articles are filed in accordance with the law of 1 Arizona, and the termination thereof 1 shall be twenty-five years thereafter, ! with the privilege of renewal as pro vid ed by statute.
 ARTICLE v. The affairs of the cor poration shall be conducted by a Board | of Directors and such officers as the | Board of Directors may elect or ap point. The number Of the directors who shall serve after the first stock holders meeting, shall be designated by the stockholders at such meeting and shall be elected at such first stock hold ers' meeting which shall be held on the 4ESb Ill oiyS 1oA@-, anu dO hhO stock holders meetings on the cores bonding day and month of each sue ceeding year. Until the first annual of the stock holders, and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified, the following named persons shall be tte directors of the corporation. to-wit: A. J. Rhodes, T. P. Gordon, George T. Netherton, George s. Evans and c l.. V. He'd rick.
 ARTICLE VI. The directors shall have power to adopt. amend, and re,scind bylaws, to fill vacancies occurring in the Board of Directors, from any cause. and to appoint an executive committee and vest 1t with all the powers granted to the directors by these articles.
 ARTICLE VII. The highest amount of indebted ness or liability to which the shall at any time subject tself is one million dollars.
 ARTICLE VIII. The private property 0f the stock holdors of the corporation shall be forever exempt from its debts pr obligations.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have 1ereunto subscribed our names, and aff1xed our seals this the 12 day of Iune,. 1911.