1897_public laws_159_11
CHAPTER 158 An act to incorporate the Stone Mountain Railway Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That said company may subscribe to the capital stock of any other corporation now in existence or hereafter projected, in this State or elsewhere, and hold shares in same; it may buy, sell, own, hold and deal in real estate, standing trees, lumber, lumbermens materials and supplies, and in all other goods, wares and merchandise of any and all kinds; it may build, own, equip and operate saw-mills, planing-mills, stonemills, shingle-mills, dry-kilns, hotels, boarding-houses and all other buildings, mills, machinery and apparatus necessary and convenient for the conduct of any part of its business; it may also purchase, own, mine for and operate natural gas, oil, coal, iron and other minerals or ores.