Graham guardian., 1895-09-20
HRTICLfS or InC0Rf0.
RHTI0n.
Of the Graham County Min
ing and Smelling Com
pany.

We, II. N. CHLARsoN, W. f. BRowN, LARS II
CHLARsoS, WESLEY W HALTERMAN H. r
CHLARsON, s. NJ. HALTERMAN, and W. C.
HoyT hereby associate ourselves together or
ganize and form corporation to transact the
business of mining smelling, selling and other
wise disposing of gold, silver, copper and other
ores and metals, and also to purchase, sell own
and hold all real property and all personal
property that may be necessary or expedient
in transacting said business.
The name of said corporation shall be THE
GRAHAM COUNTY MINING AND sMELT-
ING COMPANY, and its principal place of bus
ness shall be at the town of Thatcher, in the
County of Graham and Territory of Arizona.
The capital stock of said corporation shall he
One Hundred Thousand Dollars, which shall
be divided into Ten Thousand Shares and
each of said shares shall be of the par value OF
ten dollars.
All stock must be paid for as soon as it is is,
sued.
The working capital of this corporation shall
be Twenty Thousand Dollars.
The time of the commencement of this cor
poration shall be the day on which these arti
cles of incorporation shall be filed for record in
county, and its time of termination shall be
twenty years after said time of commencement
The affairs of said corporation shall be con-
Quoted by the following officers, TO wit A
board of directors, each of whom must own
stock of said corporation. One of said directors
shall be president of the corporation, and said
president shall be ex-officio chairman cf said
board of directors. Another one of said direc-
tors shall be vice-president of the corporation
The vice president shall act as president when
ever the president is absent or unable to act.
A secretary and treasurer of said corpora
ton shall be chosen.
All officers of this corporation shall be elected
by ballot by majority of the stock thereof rep
resented at each annual meeting of said stock
owners. but in case of an emergency they may
be elected at any regular meeting Said annual
meeting shall be held at,said principal place of
business on the first Monday in September of
each year,
The highest amount Of Indebtedness which;
said corporation may contract or have at any
time shall not exceed Ten Thousand Dollars.
The private property of all stock owners in
said corporation shall be exempt from all its
corporate debts and liabilities.
None but owners of its stock shall be eligible
to any Office o. qualified to hold any Office in
said corporation.
The following officers are chosen by said COZ
poration aid authorized TO aet ffdm the COM
mencement of the corporation Until the first an
nual meeting of said stock owners to be held on
the first Monday in September, A. d. 1885, to-wit:
W. c. HoYT,
LARS II. CHLARSON,
SILEs NJ. HALTERMAN, Directors.
w. +. BROWN,
II. N. CHLARsoN
II. N. CHLARsoN President.
W. E. BROWN, Vice-President.
II. II. CHLARSoS, Secretary.
WESLEY W. HALTERMAN. Treasurer
These articles of incorporation may be amend
ed at any annual or regular meeting of said
stock owners by a majority of the stock there
II N. CuLARsoN,
W. c. HoYT,
II. r. CHLARsOS,
w. f. BROWN,
l.. II. CHLAEsoN,
WESLEY HALTERMAN.
s NJ. HALTERMAN.
TERRITORY OF ARIzoNA.l ..
COUNTY OF GRAHAM, IS
Before me this day appeared H. N Chlarson,
W. E. Brown, Lars II. Chlarson, Wesley W.
Halterman. IL. R. Chlarson S. NJ Halterman
md W. c. Hoyt, with all of whom am. and for
| long time have been, personally and wen
acquainted, and each of them acknowledged to
ne that he is one of the corporators whose
names are subscribed to the foregoing articles
If incorporation, and each for himself further
acknowledged to me that he executed said ar
icles freely, voluntarily and for the purpose
nd uses therein stated.
n witness wherefo l have hereunto set nv |
hand and affixed my official seal this 29thday |
of June, A. d. 1895.
THOS WILLIAMS Notary pubIio