The oasis., 1912-05-11
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 -OF--- THE MEXICAN WEST COAST PACKING COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose or forming corporation under the laws of the State Of Arizona, and Go that end make the following statement,
 FIRST: The names of tte eorporat0rs 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 to be transacted by this Corporation is as follows, J0-Wt
 To conduct general packing and cold 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 to sell the meat therefrGm fresh. cured, canned or in any other way; to build. buy, own and operate ice plants refrigerating plants, electric light and power plants, tanneries flour mills, etc. {; to construct, buy, sell own and operate irriga tiOn 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 and deal in real estate and all kinds of per lsonal property to operate and develop farming, ranch or agri- cultural lauds of any nature and to buy and sell the products of such lands; to buy, own and operate or sell general stores dealing in groceries dry goods, merchandise, hard ware implements, machinery, etc.; to purchase or otherwise acquire, and to Own hold or control the stock, bonds or other obligations of any corporation engaged in or hereafter to be formed for the purpose of engaging in or carry ing on any like business, either in the United 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 to the proper con duct of the business of this Corporation i'll the State of Arizona and elsewhere, not incon- sistent with the laws of the United States of America and the State of Arizona nor of the laws of the United States of Mexico or any of the States of that Republic.
 THIRD: The authorized amount of tho capi- tai stock of this Corporation shall be Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300, ,000.00), divided into Three Hundred Thousand (300,000) shares of the par value of one dollar (sl.00). At such times the Board of Directors may by resOlu. tiOn direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this Corporation, either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it, of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said Cor poratf0n, in payment of which shares of the capital stock of said corporation may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupOn and thereby become and be fully paid up and non assessable and in the absence of actual Directors as to the value of the property pur- chased shall be conclusive.
 FOURTH: The time of the commencement of this Corporation shall be the date of the filing poratOn 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. X aaesse tavs
 FIFTH The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of Three Directors,