The oasis., 1912-05-04
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
THE MEXICAN WEST COAST PACKING
 COMPANY

| That we whose hands are hereuntO affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the | purpose of forming a corporation under the | laws of the State of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement
 FIRST: The names of the CorporatOrs are ALLEN T. BIRD and C. N. BIRD, and the name of the Corporation shall be THE MEXI- | CAN WEST COAST PACKING COMPANY. The principal place within the State of Arizona in which the business of said Corporation is to be transacted is NOgales Santa Cruz County. Arizona, and the Corporation may establish branch offices either within or without the State of Arizona, where meetings of the Board Of Directors may be held.
 SECOND: The general nature of the business proposed Co be transacted by this Corporation is as follows, JO-wit:
 To conduct general packing and coll stOr age business with full powers as follows, viz: To buy sell and deal in cattle and live stock of all kinds, to slaughter the same and Co sell the meat therefrOm fresh, cured canned or in any other way; to build. buy, own and operate ice plants. retrigeruting plants. electric light and power plants, tanneries, flour mills, etc. 1; to construct, buy, sell. own and operate irrga- ton canals, ditches and lateralS, dams for diversion Of water, water rights. water, etc tO purchase, bond, lease, own, sell or exchange pledge, mortgage or hypOthecate anG deal in real estate and all kinds of pe s0nal property; to operate and develop farming, ranch or agri- cultural lauds Of any nature and Co buy and sell the products of such lands; to buy. own
 
 groceries dry goods merchandise hard ware, implements. machinery, etc. Co purchase or Otherwis acquire, and Jo own, hold or control the stock, bonds or other obligations of any corporation engaged in or hereafter to be formed for the purpose Ol engaging in or carry ing on any like business, either in the Cuited states or any foreign country; to loan money and to take as security for any such loans notes, bonds, mortgages, deeds Of trust or other evidences of debt of any kind: and in general to do all things necessary Co the proper con duet Of the business of this Corporation in the State Of Arizona and elsewhere, not iucOn- sistent with the laws of the United States of America and the state ol Arizona, nor Of the laws of the Untcl States of Mexico or any Of the States of that Republic.
 THIRD: The authorized amount of the cap- tai stock of this Corporation shall be Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300, ,0O0.00), divided into Three Hundred Thousand (300, ,000) shares of the DIT value of one dollar (SL00). At such times as the Board of Directors may by resolu ton direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this Corporation either in cash or by the sale aud transfer to 1t, of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said Cor poratiOn, in payment Oi which shares oi the capital stock of said corporation may be icsued. and the capital stock so issued shall thereupun and thereby become and be fully paid mp and non -assessable, and in the absence Of actual fraud in the tran sacti0n the judgment of the Directors as to the vaIu- of the property pur- chased shall be conclusive.
 FOURTH: The time Of the commencement of this Corporation shall be the date of the filing of certified copy of these Articles of lncor- poratiOn in the office of the State Auditor, and of the Recorder of Santa Cruz County, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 FIFTH: The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of Three Directors, which said Board of Directors and it's success sors shall have power and authority at all times to add to or increase their number as the business of the corporation may demand; and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: JOHN DAVIDSON, ROBERT GRAHAM, k. C. SMITH. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders on the first Monday in April in each year. The officers of said Corporation until their successors are elected shall be: ROBERT GRAHAM. President; k c. SMITH Vice Presi. dent; JOHN DAVIDSON, Secretary and Treasurer.
 SIXTH: The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent to which this Corporation shall be subject at any tlm- shall be One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars. Sl50,000) which amount does not exceed two thirds the amount of capital stock
 SEVENTH: The private property of the stock holders of this Corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF We have set hereunto our hands and seals this Twenty-second day of April, 1912
 ALLEN T. BIRD (SeaD.
 C N BIRD Igpal0