Bisbee daily review., 1912-07-04
FL PASO & SOUTHWESTERN RAIL
 ROAD COMPANY


 We, the subscribers, James Doug las. President. and George Notman. Secretary, of Fl Paso & Southwestern Railroad Company, a corporation or ganiZed and existing under the laws of the State formerly Territory of Arizona, do hereby certify that at . special meeting Of the stockholders of said Company. held at the principal office of said Company, at the City of Bisbee. County of Cochise State of Arizona on the Sixth day Of May. A. D 1912, at eleven o'clock a. m., pursuant to notice duly and legslly published and given, al which meeting all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of said Company was present Or repre- sented by proxy in due form, to-wit: One Hundred and Five Thousand Q0J0O0) shares, the following reso- lutions we're duly proposed and adopt. ed by the affirmative vote of all stock present and represented at said meet ing, to-wit; One Hundred and Five Thousand tl05.000l shares.
 RESOLVED: That Article VHI of the Articles of Incorporation of the Ei Paso & Southwestern Railroad Company. be and the same Is hereby amended to read as follows:
 ARTICLE VIII. Said corporation is organized under and in pursuance of tue laws of the State formerly the Terrftoryl of Arizona. for the purpose of constructing, owning, maintaining and operating a railroad with suitable | telegraph and telephone lines, for the purpose of the transportation and car Tiage of passengers and freight by the force of steam, electricity or other : mechanical power or any combination | thereof from Don Isuis Station. on the | Fl Paso x Southwestern Railroad | formerly the Arizona and Southeast | ern Railroad), in the County of Co- | chise, State Of Arizona to a point on ! the International boundary line be- tween the United States and Mexico. at UT near the place where the Agua | Prieta, otherwise known as the White RIyer, flows south from the State of ! Arizona into Mexico, and from this point in a northeasteTly direction to | the boundary line between the States of Arizona and New Mexico, at or near a point on said boundary line, 1 which lies about Fourteen Hundred and Nineteen 1419) feet east of the | northeast corner of Section Three (3D ! Township Nineteen G9), South of Range Thirty-two (52j, East, Gila and Salt River Meridian.
 Also, for the purpose of construct ing. owning, maintaining and Operat- ing a branch railroad from the town oI Fsirbank, in the aforesaid County Ot Cochise, in an easterly direction to the Town of Tombstone iu said CoUn- ty, a distance or about nine miles;
 and another branch railroad from Forest Siding, on the Company's main line. in the County of Cochise afore-
 said. in a southwesterly direction to
 the Town of Naco. in said County. a distance or about Fifteen 05l miles.
 The whole of tHs aforesaid route lies in the said County of COchise, State of Arizona, and with it's branch
 es and the lines Of railroad lying east
 and west Of the respective termini
 aforesaid, acquired by this Company
 from tho Arizona & Southeastern Rail-
 road Company and the Southwestern
 Railroad Of New Mexico. with ali their branches, is about Three Hundred and iSeyenty-fiye i375) miles.
 Also for the purpose of constructing owning, maintaining and operating q
 railroad from a point at or near the . City of Douglas. in the County of Co chise, State of Arizona. upon the rail.
 road Of the El Paso & SUgthwestern Railroad Company; thence In a north. erly direction in Sulphur Springs Val
 ley into and through said County of
 Cochise. to the Town of Courtland in said County O. Cochise, State oi
 Arizona, distance of about Thirty
 five (35D miles more or less, with
 such branches and spurs as may Dc
 deemed necessary; with power and
 authority to extend such line to ans
 other point or points in said State - and to build Co and from the same
 such brauch lines and spurs as saie
 Company may decide upon.
 Also for the purpose of construct , ing, owning, maintaining and opera
 ting rsilr5ad from a boint at or neal 3 the Town Of Courtland iD the Count, ? of Cochise State of Arizona, into ans 1 through the Counties of COchise b Pima, Graham and Gila, in said State l to the City of Globe. in the County O !. Gila. tn said state. distance of sbou 9 One Hundred and Scyenty-ivo tI75 ? miles, more or less, with such bTanch