The border vidette., 1911-06-24
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE SONORA PACIFIC MINING COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRE- SENTS, that we, the undersigned, hay ing associated ourselves for the purpose of forming q 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 it's prin- cipal place of business shall be No- gales, Arizona, but other offices may be established and main tained in Kan sas City. Missouri, or elsewhere within or outside of Arizona at such places 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, 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- erai lands of all kinds, oil, coal, and mber 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 reduction works, oil refineries, 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 poratons, and to vote any shares of stock owned and held by it in other 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 IT. The capital stock of this corporation shall be Two Million Dollars, (S2 OOO 900 OO,) 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
 
 All or any portion of tho capital stock l may be issued in payment for real or personal property, services, or any other right or thing of value for the | uses and purposes of the corporation. 1 and when 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 judges of the value of any property, right, or thing acquired | in exchange for the capital stock, or 1 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 1 the existence of the corporation shall | be the day on which these articles are l filed in accordance with the law of | Arizona, and the termination thereof . sh all 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 i 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 hC li- ers' meeting which shall be held on t. first Tuesday in July, 1912, and at like stock holders' meetings on the cores