The border vidette., 1911-07-22
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 or THE SONORA PACIFIC MINING COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRE- SENTS, that we, the undersigned, hay ing associated ourselves for the pnrpose of forming corporation under Chapter II of Title XIII of the Revised Statutes of Arizona, 1901, and acts amendatory thereof and Supplemental thereto, do hereby adopt the following as the Ar ticles of Incorporation for said pro posed corporation:
 ARTICLE I. The name of the cor poration shall be "SONORA PACIFIC MINING COMPANY, and its prin cipal place of business shal! be No gales. A Arizona. but other offices may be established and main tained iu Kan sas City, Missouri, or elsewhere within or outside of Arizona at such places as the Board of 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 this corporation is that of mining, milling, converting, preparing for mar ket, and otherwise producing and deal ing in gold, silver, copper lead, zinc, brass, iron, steel and all kinds of ores metals, and minerals, oils, gas, ard 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 il mines and min eral 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 uction works, oil refneries, saw mills. and power plants; to acquire, own and hold ranch 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; to purchase and own shares of its own capital stock and that of other cor pOrasions, and to vote any shares of stock owned and held by it in other corporations, the same 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 other 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 this corporation shall be Two Million Dollars, (&2 GOO, OOG 0O,) divided into two million shares of the par value Of one ollar each, " hicb shall be paid for at such times and in such manner as the Board of Directors may designate. All or any portion of the capital stock . may be issued in payment for real or personal property, services, on any other right or thing of value for the uses and purposes of the corporation, and w hen so issued shall become and be fully paid, the same as that paid for in cash at par: and the directors shall be the sole jud ges 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 the day on which these articles are filed in accordance with tho law of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter, with the privilege of renewal as pro vided by statute.
 ARTICLE v. The affairs of the cor- poration shall be conducted by Board of Directors and such officers as the Board of Directors may elect or ap- point. The number oP 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 tue first Tuesday in July, 1912, and at like stock olders' meetings on the cores bonding day and month of each sue ceeding year. Until the first annual meeting of the stock holders, and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified, the following named persons shall be the directors of the corporation. to-wit: A. J Rho0 0es, T. P. Goroon, George T. Netherton, George $. Evans and c l.. V. Hedrick-
 ARTICLE VI. The directors shall have power to adopt, ameDd. and rescind bylaws, to fill vacancies occurring in the Board of Directors, from any cause. and to appoint an executive committee and vest It with all the powers granted to the directors by these articles.
 ARTICLE VII. The highest amount Of Indebted ness or liability to which the corporation shall at any time subject itself is enc million dollars.
 ART GLE VIII. The private property of the stockholders of the corporation shall be forever exempt from its debts or obligations.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto subscribed our names, and affixed our seals this the 12 day of June, 1911.
 X. J. RHODES. tSeai)
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