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The Arizona sentinel., 1896-07-18
Territory of Arizonar

J LCtiItUI y UT -1I IAUIIIL eg
 County of Yuma, s.
 !, M. L. Pool, County Recorder in and for the County of Yuma, Territory of Ari- zona do hereby certify that the foregoing is true, full and c:rlect copy Qf the arti- cIes of incorporation Of the Shasta Group Gold Mining Company as appears of record in the Recorders of1ie in said County and Territory in Book of Bonds and Agree ments at page 445 ct sec. In witness whereof have hereunto set my
 hand and official seal this 5th day tSeal.) of May, A. D., 1896.
 Nj. L. ROOl!,
 County Recorder, Yuma County, A. T.
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COUNTY.

COUNTY.
 Because the climate is perfect.
 Because the soil is fertile and prolific.
 Because land is abundant and cheap. Because home can be made with little labor.
 Because so great 2 variety of products can be grown.
 Because the yield is large and the prices always remuEeratiye.
 Because life is luxury in a land where tae sun shines every day.
 Because there are chances for a poor man which he can never hope to find in older countries.
 Beca97e the country is advancing and property values are increasing.
 Because, unlike Southern California it does not require & small fortune to secure a piece of land.
 Because capital does not block all the av- enues to wealth, nor crowd the poor man to the wall.
 Because Uncle Sam hos yet many farms in Yuma county waiting for occupants.
 Bscause churches, schools, newspapers and railroads are fast developing the moral and material clements of the Territory.
 Because good land is becoming scarce, and if you don't catch On now, your last chance U;n soon be gone.
 Because the country is one of the few regions of the Uuited States that yields the products of the temperate and semi-tropic zones.
 Because the worker receives a fair com pcnsatio-. for his labor, and the 'rustler' has field for the display of his energy and en- terprise.
 Because there are neither blizzarls or tornadoas, earthquakes nor inundations, snow-storms nor cyclones.
 Because the vast and varied resources of the country are yet to be developed.
 Because the wealth of its mines, its farm ing valleys, and grazing lands, will yet build up great and prosperous county.
 ASS'S-s@O Iiitiil Cl1il LldfS ilVCtlDOOd Def, with less labor than in any other part Of the United States.
 Because there is health in every breeze, and strength and Eigor under its cloudIess skies.
 Because the settler need not spend life time in felling trees and grubbing cut stUmps.
 Because vegetation is so rapid that in two years the home is surrounded by a growth of trees and shrubs which would require five years to develop in colder cline.
 Because fortunes here await the venture some, and hea3th welcomes the afflicted.
 Because the country has a brilliant future and you want to be in the "swfhl D
 Because in its pure, dry invigorating air, epidemic diseases cannot live or germinate
 Because its people are generous, liberal, hospitable snd progressive.
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-07-18
LANDS AND SOILS,

The lsads Of Yuma County comprise tue river bottoms and valleys and the uplands or mesas The bottom ands are moster anl sii7-ty :--cre fertile 1f, indeed, it i5 possible to mike comparisons ~here all gre wonderfully productive prolific. The Splands or mesas warmer and, perhaps, Nightly for better tLe cultivation ofthe citrus fruits sl.sss cantairsa zsJietF of soil Tte valley lang
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-07-18
ARTICLE 1.

ASOllC GL 1.
 The names Of the persons hereby asso- ci2ting themselves together for the p1rpoae aforesaid are 4. ". Poole, Geo55e 4. Aic : Into5h, k. J. Ny-illats, George Morgan and 1 J. Geo. Smith.
 The name of the corporation hereby formed Is the Henrietta Gold Mining Com pany.
 The principal place for the transaction of it's business shall be in Yuma, in the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, with an executive, business, branch and transfer office at San Francisco, State of California and business &nd transfer office in the City, of New Yorls, State of New York; and that the Board Of Directors may hold reg uiar and special meetings in the said cities of San Francisco aud New York with the further privilege oi acquiring mines, real and personal property, erecting and main taiaing It's plants, and transactlng it's busi- ness, and operating gold and other mines in any part of the United States; and dealing in gold and the products and by-pvoducts thereof as stated in this, and ID Article II thereof.
 ARTICLE II. The general nature Of tie business pro- posed to be transacted by this corporation is to engage in a general mining business fer gold and other metals in the various States and Territories of the Unired States, and to deal in, acquire and sell gold and other metals and all their products and by products, and to acquire. sell, lease and improve gold and other mineral mining claims, real and personal property, water and water rights, and to erect, construct, purchase, operate, sell and lease all ma chinery, mills, works and plants. necessary and requisite for such gold and ether mineral mining; transporting and selling of such products, and all it's by-products. and to purchase own and hold, and to sell shares of stock in this and other corporations; to have perpetual succession; to sue and to be sued by its corporate name; to have com mon seal, and alter the same at pleasure; to prescribe the mode of making transfer of shares; or interests of it's stockholders; to make contracts to acquire and transfer property, possessing the same powers il such resSectS as private individuals now en. joy; to establish bylaws and make el rules and regulations deemed expedient for the management of it's affairs, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States and of the Territory of Arizoza, as provided by section 233 of the Revised Statutes of Arizona.
 ARTICLE III.
 The amount of the capital stock of the corporation shall be two hundred thousand ($200.CG00G) dollars divided into twenty thousand tZ0,000) shares of the p;r value of ten ($l0.00) dollars each, and shall be non and be issued as fully paid up, and the several incorporators hereof each do hereby subscribe to five (5) shareg each of stock respectively, and the following are the names of the persons by whom the same has been subscribed, to wit:
 NAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS. No. Yf shares
 A. ". Poole, Five shares.
 George A. Mcintosh, Five shares.
 K. J. Willats, Five shares.
 Geo. Morgan, Five shares.
 J. George smith, Five Fhares.
 ARTICEE.IY.
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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the SHASTA GROUP GOLD MINING
 COMPANY.

know all men by these presents. That we. the undersigned, a majority of whom are citizeds and residents of the State of California, desiring to incorporate ourselves under the laws of the Territory ot Arizona, for the purpose of engaging in the business hereinafter specified, do maKe sign, adopt, acknowledge and publish these Article of Incorporation,
 ARTICLEI.
 The names of the persons hereby asso- ciating themselves together for the purpose aforesaid are Robert Ash, A. ". PoOe, John Cameron Simonds, William II. Me Donald and Charles ". Pope.
 The name of the Corporation hereby formed is the SHASTA GROUP GOLD MINING COMPANY.
 The principal place for the transaction of its business shall be in Yuma, i'll the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, with an executive, business, branch and transfer l office at San Francisco, State of California, and business and transfer office ill the ! City of New York, State of New York; and that the Board of Directors may hold re- gular and special meeting in said cities of San Francisco and New York, with the further privilege of acquiring mines, real and personal property, erecting and main
 taining its plants, and transacting its busi-
 ness, and operating gold and other mines
 in any part of the United States; and deal ing in gold and the products and by-pro l A..
 ticle II thereof.
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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the HENRIETTA GOLD MIEING C0M.
 PANY.

Know all men by these present: Th2t we, the undersigned, 2 majority of whom are citizens and residents of the State of California, desiring to incorporate our selves und:r the laws of the Territory of Arizona, for the purpose of engaging in the business hereinafter specified, do make, sign, adopt, acknowledge Gnd publish these Articles of IncornOration,
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State of California

City and County of San Francisco. '' Before me, w. E. BenchIey, a Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, on this thirticth day or April, A. D., 1896. personal Iy appeared Robert Ash, 4. " Poole, John Cameron Simonds, William A. McDoIald and Charles ". Pope, personally known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged to me that they execut- ed the same for the purpose and considera- ton therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of office
 this Thirtieth day Of April, 4. D. LSeal 1895 w. B. BENCELEY.
 Notary Public in and for the City
 and County of San Francisco, State
 Of California.
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ARIZONA.

Arizona stands at the threshold of an era of wonderful social and industrial de- yelopment. There can't be a doubt about the fact. The dawn for which she has waited so long is breaking at last. There is every promise of day of great pros- perity and permanent upbuildiDg just be- fore her. The impulse of a new and euer- gizing hope is visible everywhere among her people while the cumulative effect of many things, which made but small inn pression as they transpired singly, is now commanding for her full share of atten- ton and interest abroad among home seekers and capitalists
 i lively competition has sprung up for the possession Of things which have hereto fore gone a-begging for ownership. There is scramble for franchises. Nothing more surely indicates great industrial awaken ing than this. The rates of interest are falling to moderate figures. Nothing more surely indicates confidence and competition among the money lenders than this.
 Arizona has reached that climGcticer period which every western state has ex- perienced sometime in its history when, after long aud weary struggle and doubt, with each side of the balance first up and then down, the clouds of despondency have suddenly rolled away, and sunhurst of eneTgizimg hope has thrilled the droop- ing spirits of the people to greater and braver endeavor than before.
 For the last twelve years the subsistence of the great Tombstone boom and the com pletion of two transcontinental lines of railroad across her territory has rather dropped out of public attention, but in that time she has been quietly ac- cumulating fund of substantial wealth and force of moral character which qualify her now to rise up and take her destiny in her own hands.
 The population of Arizona is Mexican. This is a mistake of great importance from the moral point of view. There is hut enc considerable center of Mexican population in the territory, tue city of Tucson, and even there it is not by any means at pres ent the predOminating element. It think it is eel tain that arizona has not to-day nearly so large a Mexican population a: Colorado and not above one-tenth as much as New Mexico. ~"Fitz- Mac" in Denver News.
 WHY IMMIGRANTS SHOULD COME TO YUM4
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ARTICLE VII.

The private property Of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from the debts of this corporation, and no indi- vidual liability of stockholders shall exist for corporate debts.
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-07-18

stockholders of this corporation shall be served personally or by registered mail, with sufficient time to enable such stock holder, or stockholders, to attend such meeting, or meetings.
 It witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hand and seals, this 30th day of April, \. D. 1896.
 ROBERT ASH, (sEAL.)
 CHAS ", POPE, (sEAL,)
 JOHN CAMERON SIMONDS, (sEAL.)
 WM H. NDONALD. (sEAI.)
 A. W. POOLE, (sFAL Signed and sealed in the presence of,
 NY I P-x-c,1rrxy
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ARTICLE ".

The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of the filing ot thasee Articles of Incorporation in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Yuma, Territory Of Arizona, and the terall- nation thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter, with the power to renew, the period of extension not greaterthan twenty five years, upon the vote of three-fonrths Of the capital stock at any regular meeting called and held for that purpose.
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II.

The general nature of the business pro- posed to be transacted by this Corporation IS to engage in general mining business for gold and other metals, in the various States and Territories of the United States, and to deal in, acquire and sell gold and other metals, and all their products and by-pro- ducts, and to acquire, sell, lease and inn prove gold and other mineral mining claims, real and personal property, water and water rights, and to erect, construct. purchase, operate. sell and lease all machinery. mills, works and plants, necessary and requisite for such gold and other mineral mining, transporting and selling of such products, aud all Its by-prOducts, and to purchase own and hold, and to sell shares of stock in this and other corporations; to have per petuaI succession; to sue and be sued by it's corporate name; to have q common seal, and alter the same at pleasure; to prescribe the mode of making transfer of shares or in terests of its stockholders; to make con- tracts to acquire and transfer property, pos
 sesslng the same powers in such respects as
 private individuals now enjoy; to establish bylaws and make all rules and regulations deemed expedient for the management of it's affairs, rot inconsistent with the consti- tuition and laws ofthc United States and of the Territory of Arizona as provided by section two hundred and thirtyzthree (233) of the Revised Statues Of Arizona.
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County Recorder, Yuma County, A. T
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ARTICLE III.

The amount of the capital stock of the corporation shall be one million t$l l,00Q,O00.- Q, divided into one hundred thousand tl01, ,09O) shares ofthe par value of ten dol lars C$10.Oo} each, and shall be non-assessi- ble, and be issued as fully paid up, and the several incoroorators hereof each do hereby subscribe to one share each of stock respec- lively, and the following are the names of the persons by whom the same has been subscribed to wit:
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ARTICLE V.

The affairs of this corporation shall be managed and conducted by, and shall be vested in a Board of Directors consisting of five persons, to be elected by and from the stockholders of this corporation on the first Monday of February in each and every wear. at meeting of this corporation to be held at Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, or in the city of San Francisco, State Of Cali fJrnia, provided the following named stock holders shall serve at the Board of Directors until the regular election in February, 1897, and until their successors are elected and qualified, viz. Robert Ash, A. w. Poole, John Cameron Simonds, William II. Me Donald and Charles W. Pope; and provided further, that in the event of vacancy Tn the Board of Directors before any annual meeting, said vacancy may be filled by majority of the remaining members ot the Board of Directors then in office. And 1t Is further provided that three members of the Board of Directors shall constitute aquorGm forthe transaction of business, and that any meeting ofthe Board of Directors at which three Directors, or more, shall be present, shall be legal meeting and that notice of any and all meeting of the Board of Di- rectors shall be served personally or by registered mail, with sufficient time to. enable such Director, or Directors, to attend such meeting, or meetings.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The highest indebtedness, direct or in- direct. to which this corporation shall at any time be subject, shall not exceed a bonded indebtedness of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and a floating in- debtedness of one hundred thousand dol lars.
 ARTICLE VII.
 The private property Of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from the debts of this corporation, and no indi- yidual liability of stockholders shall exist
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ARTICLE VIII.

The Board of Directors shall have power to establish bylaws, name ana designate the officers Of ti.c company, and make all necessary rules andreSulations as may be bv them deemed ezpedient for the manage ment of this corporation not incons;5tcnt with the laws of the United States, and the laws the Territory of Arizona; and to enter into all contracts allowed, or pertain ing to s,.e business Of the company.
 ARTICLE TX.
 Notice of any and all meetings Of the
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Notice of any and all meetings Of the
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ARTICLE VI.

The highest indebtedness, direct CT in. direct to which this corporation shall at any time Dc subject, shall not exceed bouded indebtedness of one hundred thousand ($i00, ,000.C0) dollars and a floating in debtedness of seventy-fve thousand Is75- 0G0. .OO) dollars, 'S'"'
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ARTICLE VII.

The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from the debts of this corporation and no individuaI liability of stockholders shall exist for cor. poIate debts.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-07-10

charity mua hunt Tor distress and re
lloveit.
This reminds me Of the convicts an6
theirpililoas condition. Most of them
deserve their fate, but among che 3.
600 there are some who have oxpiated
their oiIeusoa and ought 20 be aat free.
The courts make mistakes sometimes.
aud no doubt thoro are many oonvietf
paying penalties they DO not owe.
Iuore is not more helpless creature
upon earth than a frlendloss convict.
aud We rejoice that Governor Atkinson
and tho commilte are making search.
ing examination, The governor told
me Of negro boy who had served
nine years and had eleven more 10
serve. He went In a boy Of fifteen,
charged with arson, and now il appears
most clearly that be was not guilty,
and II could have been 80 proved, but
the witness, substantial citizen,
lived out Of the state aud bis evidence
could not be had. The boy was con-
victed on circumstantial evidence.
The governor has alhdayita that place
the innocence Of this negro beyond oil
doubt, aud Of course he has set him az
liberty. He has shortened the terms
Of a great many and hia consideration
for those who have behaved we'll 70.
ceives unusual commendation.
Reform is said 10 be one Of the OBJ
iects Of punishment, aud II the Grim
inal has really repented and reformed,
he should be given another chance.
Ny wife was commenting on that
little chair that was the poor mothers
token of her dead child and that re-
minded her OF little workstand that
the yankees took from her and carried
off. II was a beauty and was made
specially for her twenty-fourth birth
day and she has lamented its loss oil
these years. Forty more years have
passed, aud now she has another birth
day, and all that had TO give her was
a morning kiss on her brow and q
white rose in her raven hair and tC
wish her long life and happiness and
that her last days might be her best
days. God grant that no aflliction OF
calamity may befall her Her absent
boys wrote her loving letters, and as she
read them she said: 'Iknew they would
not forget their poor old bother.
Poor I" said /. "You are not poor
You are fat and you are rich in your
posterity, and you are not old-not neal
as old as l am. Why not say their ricl
and lively and we'll preserved mother?
But numerous grandchildren an(
more coming does make an anoien
matron feel old, especially if she hat
to play runagee from the fowl Invader
and carry half dozen little helpless
children with her during a long anC
cruel war. Those four years ought t,
count tea in the calendar of a mother
age.-BmL ARP in Atlanta Constitu
ton.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-07-10
AT ST. LOUIS
The Republican Hosts are Now Gath
cred for the Fray.

The Republican Hosts are Now Gath
cred for the Fray.
A st. Louis special says: The be-
draggled ambassadors of sovereign
states with bands and banners arrived
Monday morning to find heavy rain
storm in progress and no room where
in to place their wearied souls.
They found likewise that the work
of the convention had been mapped
out some days ago by the smooth and
rotund Hanna. Mckinley banners COW
cred every coat shop, window and hotel
angle.
So far as the financial plank is con-
cerned, the situation changes hourly.
At last the convention may decide for
itself in this one weighty matter. The
entire east, with some accessions from
the south and some from the middle
west, are clamoring for a gold stand
ard platform out and out. They say
that they will accept no compromise.
The Hanna contingent, together
with Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Indiana and the states OF the great
middle-west are for a gold plank in the
platform but it must be called by
some other name. "Sound Money"
for instance or perhaps "The Present
Monetary Standard.
The third contingent, which, Of
course, comes from the mining states,
are clamcring for the free and I'M
limited coinage Of silver at 16 to /,
but the question at last resolves itself
into this; There will be q strong dec
laration in the convention for sound
money, denunoiation OF free silver,
and a platform which means the gold
standard. It remains to- be told by
the votes in the convention whether
this declaration will be sugarcoated
with phrases not doubtful in meaning
but doubtful il sound, or whether the
declaration is to be worded SO that he
whoruns may read and thoroughly
understand.