Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-06-14
4 EIG ~CORPOEATJOS.


thc Anaconda Copper Company lilies
articles of incorporation in This
County.
Saturday morning County Clerk Nc
Donnell received, Il letter from w. w.
Dixon Of Butte i~nstructing him to file
on tire Sth inst, and not before, the in
closed articles of interpretations. ard to
notify him Immediately by telegram
when they had been filed.
The papers inclosed proved to be
articles OF incorporation for a new com
pany to be known as the Anaconda
Copper company (the present Anaconda
company is known as the Anaconda
Mining and Smelling company, and they
were witnessed by a Butte notary public
on June g.. A great deal Of speculation
was at once aroused as to what the new
organization meant. The men whose
names appear in the instrument are all
associates of Marcus DAILY and residents
OF either Butte or Anaconda. The incor-
porators are Moses Kirkpatrick, VIM.
Scallon and Malcolm b. Brownlee. The
two first are Butte lawyers n the last
is a member of the Anaconda banking
firm of Hoge, Brownlee a. Co.
The purposes of the corporation cover
about everything in the way of business
enterprise imaginable. The articles state
that it is "to engage in and carry on all
kinds of manufacturing, mining, mechan-
ical, agricultural, chemical, electrical,
mercantile, industrial and productive
business or businesses, and all business
pertaining to milling, reducing, refining
and treating ores and minerals; to
purchase, hold, rent, improve or deal in
mineral lands containing, gold, silver,
copper, lead, tin, cinnabar, iron. coal,
or any other mineral; to deal in re-
timing and smelling plants, saw-mills,
etc; to deal in water powers and
dispose of the same irrigation. transport
alton, etc. To deal in agricultural and
stock lands. tuwnsites. lots and blocks.
TO deal in electric light plants and street
car systems. To acquire stocks or bonds
of other companies and indorse and dis
pose OF the same where this company
owns a majority Of the stock. 70 acquire
hotels. inns, taVcrns. lodging houses.
boarding houses, parks. tracks. resorts
Tor business, sport. exercise. recreation or
amusement. TO lrmd money for profit
or borrow money ON mortgage or pledge
OF a part or the whole of its property.
10 do business ON commission. 70 do
anything else necessary tU carry out the
purposes of this incorporation.
The capital stock is fixed at $4,000
600. and is divided into 300. 600 shares al
500 each.
The term Of the corporate existence is
fixed at 10 years.
The board of trustees is to number
sever. and the board for the first three
months is to be Moses Kirkpatrick. vii
liam Scallon, Malcolm b. Brownlec.
Michael Donohoc. VIM. l.. Hogr. Daniel
j, Ernncssy and Joseph V. Long.
The principal place of business is to
be at Butte. Montana, and the company
is to have the right to carry on a por.
ton of it's business outside the state of
Montana. The members of the board
outside of the three incorporators are
Michael Donohoe, manager of the B. A.
~ p. II. r., VIM. l.. Hoge, Of Mr.. Daly's
Butte banking firm, Joseph V. Long,
cashier of the same bank, and Daniel j,
Hennessy. of the llennesey Mercantile
Company, Butte.