The border vidette., 1911-07-01
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE SONORA PACIFIC MINING COMPANY.

SONORA PACIFIC MINING COMPANY.
 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRE- SENTS. that we, the undersigned, hav- ing associated ourselves for the purpose of forming a 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 the Ar ticles of Incorporation for said pro- posed corporation:
 ARTICLE 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 maintained in 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 otherwlse 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,
 
 dispose ot and deal ia 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 reduction works, oil re6neries, saw mills, and power plants; to acquire. own and hold ranch and agricultural lands, and all Irs~ @f Anl efof f4 nd estate therein, and to~sell, mortgage, lease, or otherwise dispose of the same; to purchase and own shares Of it's own capital stock and that of other cor porations, and to vote any shares Of stock owned and held by it in other corporations, the same as a 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 advan tage of the corporation.
 ARTICLE III. The capital stock Of this corporation shall be Two Million Dollars. ($2 900, OO9 OO.) divided into two million shares of the par value of
  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 pay yment 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 for in cash at par; and the directors shall be the sole jud ges of the value of rin nr 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 tRe day on which these articles are filed in. accordance with the law of Arizona. and the .terminatlcn thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter, with the privilege of renewal as pro vided by statute.
 ARTICLE V. The affairs of the cor poratlon 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 tbe first Tuesday in July, 1912, and at like stock holders' meetings on the cores bonding day and month of each sue ceeding year. Until the first annual meeting of the stock olders, and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified, the following named persons shall be the directors of the corporation. to- wit: A. Rhodes, T. P. Goroon, George T. Netherton, George $. Evans and c L. V. Hedrick.
 ARTICLE VI. The directors shall have power to adopt, amend, and rescind 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 indebtedness or liability to which the corporation shall at any time subject itself is one million dollars.
 ARTICLE VIII. The private property of the stock holders 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.
 A. J. RHODES, (SesD
 JOHN s. HOLLIS. ,SraD
 c. IL. V. HEDRICK. (Seal)