Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-11-23
LEGAL ADVERTISING
or INCORPORATION THE ILLINOIS ExPLoRATIoM
 CONfPAMY.

OF
 THE uLrNo1s EXPLORATION
 COMPANY. First: The name of this corporation Is The Illinois Exploration Company. Second: The location of its principal office in the State of Delaware is to be in the City of Wilmington, County or New Castle. The name of Its agent therein and in charge thereof, and upon whom legal process against this corpor- ation may be served, is Corporation Trust Company of America, duPont Building, No. West Tenth Street, in said City of Wilmington. Third: The nature of the business and the objects and purposes for which, and for any of which, this corporation IS formed are to do any or all of the things herein set forth as fully and to the same extent as natural persons might or could do and in any part or the world, viz: (a) To carry on the business of mining milling, concentrating. locating, convert ing, smelting, reducing, treating, pre- pairing for market, manufacturing, buy ing, selling, exchanging and otherwise producing and dealing in gold, silver, copper, nickel lead, zinc, brass iron, steel, coal, ores, metals metallic com pounds, stone gravel oil and minerals of all kinds and all or any products or by products thereof.
 (b) To acquire, own, lease occupy, ex- plore, prospect locate, patent, use and develop any lands, mines, mineral rights options concessions or claims con taining ores, minerals, metals, coal, iron, manganese, stone, gravel, gas or oil, ana any wood lands, and to mine or other wise extract or remove ores, minerals, metals, coal iron, manganese, stone, gravel. oil, gas or timber therefrom; and to take own, hold, deal in, mortgage, and to lease, sell, exchange, transfer or m any manner whatever dispose of any such lands, mines, mineral rights, op- tions or claims, within or without the state of Delaware.
 (c) To buy,> sell, export, import or otherwise to deal and trafflc m, ron metals, stone, gravel, coal oil, coke, wood, lumber and other materials and any of the products or byproducts there of, and any articles consisting, or partly consisting, thereof.
 (d) To construct, acquire, own, lease, operate, carry out, maintain, improve, equip, manage. control or superintend any roads, ways, private railways. prl- vate tramways, either aerial or other wise, telegraph and telephone llnes' aQueducts, reservoirs, canals, and other water ways, wharves, piers, docks, slips bulkheads, furnaces, mills, foundries crushing, concentrating and smelting works. hydraulic works, pipe lines. gas wells oil wells, factories, dwelling houses, stores, warehouses, buildings, plants, works, elevators, machinery, en- gines cars and other equipment; to pur- chase vessels or other means of trans- portation, and equip and operate the same as required for the uses and pur- poses of this corporation.
 (e) To build, construct, develop, inn prove, acquire maintain, operate, ho!d' own and lease plants and works for the manufacture, acquiring, generating, ac. emulation, and distribution of electric ity, gas and steam and plants and works of any other character adapted to pro- duce light, heat and power in any form, and to build, construct, develop, improve, acquire, hold, own, lease, maintain and operate waterworks, transmission lines, electrical works, electric and pow reproducing machinery, apparatus ap- pliances and equipment of every kind and character.
 (f) To purchase, acquire, and lease, and to sell, lease and dispose Of water water rights, water records, power priv ileges and appropriations for power light, mining, milling, irrigation, agri- cultural. domestic or any other use or purpose,
 (g) To investigate, develop, consum- ate undertake and carry on any enter prise, business, transaction or operation commonly carried on or undertaken pv capitalists, financierS, contractors, truS' companies, syndicates, merchants, com mission men, or agents to acquire the good will rights and property, and uI dertake the whole or any part or iht assets and liabilities of any person, firm association or corporation, and to pay flor the same in cash, stock, bonds ol notes of this corporation, or otherwise and generally as principal or agent t( institute, enter into, carry on, assist, pro mote and participate in financial, com mercial, mercantile and other business works contracts, undertakings and op erationS.
 (h)I To hold in trust, issue on com @nlr oIxv lease, license, transfer, organize, reor ganize, incorporate or dispose of any O the undertakings or resulting invest ments aforesaid, or the stock or sec trustee or depositary for any of tn, above or like purposes, or any purpos herein mentioned.
 CD To obtain the grant of, purchase lease, or otherwise acquire any conces sions, rights options, patents, privileges lands, rights of way, sites,> properties undertakings or businesses or any right option or contract in relation thereto and to perform, carry out and fulfill tn terms and conditions thereof, and to car maintain, lease, sell, transfer, dispos of and otherwise deal with the same.
 CD To manufacture, buy, sell and gen erally deal in goods, wares, merchandise property and commodities of any am every class and description, and all ar ticles used or useful in connection there with, insofar as may be permitted b, the laws of the State of Deleware.
 (k) To subscribe for, or cause to b subscribed for, buy, own, hold, purchase receive or otherwise acquire, and to sell negotiate, guarantee, assign, deal in, ex change transfer, mortgage, pledge o otherwise dispose of, shares of the cap ital stock, scrip, bonds, coupons, mort &ages, debentures, debenture stock, sec urities, notes and evidences of indebted ness issued or created by other corpora tions, joint stock companies or associa tions, whether public, private or munic ipal, or any corporate body, and whil owner thereof to posses and to eXercis in respect thereof, all the rights, power and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon; to guarante the payment of dividends on any share of the capital of any of the corporations joint stock companies or associations i which this corporation has or may hav an interest and to become surety in re spect of, endorse or otherwise guarante the payment of the principal or interes of any scrip, bonds, coupons, mort gages, debentures, securities, notes o evidences of indebtedness issued o created by any such corporations joint stock, companies or associa tions: to become surety for o guarantee the irving mt and narfor