The Arizona sentinel., 1897-10-30
ARTICLES OF INCDRPORATI0N
 or THE Mining and Milling Company

Know all men by these presents that we, Ransom J. Duncan. Stephen E. Arthur and Ethan A. Gilbert, the undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation under inc laws of the Territory of Arizona, United Srates of America, and especially m act of the legislative assembly thereof, emitted "CorpOrations," approved March Sih, 1897, and all acts amendatory hereof. have adopted, signed and acknOwl- edged these articles of incorporation:
 First. The names of the incorporat0rS of this corporation are Ransom J. Duncan stephen E. Arthur and Ethan A. Gilbert and the name of this corporation and by which it shall he known is the "Duncan Mining and Milling Company and its principal place of transacting business is and shall be in the city of Yuma, Yuma county and Territory of Arizona aforesaid; and such other places as it's board of dl- rectors may hereafter designate.
 Second. The nature of the busluess prnpose to be transacted by this corpor- alton is and shall be to acquire, buy, sell, lease locate, own and control and operate quarries, mines mining claims, veins, lOdes, and derosits of metal and mineral and mineral bearing ore of every description and nature; to purchase, erect and dispose of mills, mining machinery and plants, pumping stations and pumps for pumping water to work said mines; to purchase, ! locate ana operate NdtcI anu W dIcI pONC4 i for domestic irrigation, lighting and pow TT purposes; to purchase, own and operate ! tunnels, dams, ditcheS, canals, fumes, l reservoirs for the development Of water for mining and domestic purposes; to acquire 1 by right of eminent domain or otherwise lands, rights of way and franchises for the purpose of carrying on said mining buSl- i ness; to buy, locate or dispose of mlllslteS or land upon which tJ erect mills or other l oh Or, hOnSpS StOrp or boarding houses; to buy and sell mer- 1 chandise and carry on general shipping and freighting business; and to do all and every act necessary incidental or cOnven tent to the proper transaction of the busl- 1 ness for which this corporation lS organ jzed. within the limits of the Territory ot Arizona or in any State of the United Statts.
 Third. The amount of the capital stock of this corporation herein authorized l. one hundred thousand dollars t$l0J,0J0 divided into one hundred thousand share of the par value of one dollar ($l each and said capital stock shall be paid in full al the time this corporation commences busI ness, and when issued shall be non-aSseS- able
 Fourth. The time of the commencement of this corporation shali be on the first day of October A. D. 1897, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five yeass there after.
 Fifth. The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by board of directors of three persons, each of whom must be a stOckhOlder of this corporation and shal be elected at the annual meeting ot the stockholders of this corpOration-eXcep1 as herein provided, as to first board of dl- rectOrS-at annual meetings to be held or the first Monday of January of each veal during the life of thls corporation, which said annual meetings shall be held at tine office of the company at Yuma, Tn salo Territory of Arizona. That the persons who shall act as such directors until the first annual meeting of the stockholders o this cOrporatiOn, tO-wit: on the 3rd day O
 January@ I898 are Ransom J. Duncan stephen E. Arthur and Ethan A Gilbert. sixth. The officers of this corporation shall be a president, secretary and treas
 urer to be elected by the board of direct ors at each annual meeting, and t!.e per sons who shall act as such officers untI the first annual meeting are Ransom
 Duncan, president; stephen k. Arthur treasurer, and Ethan A Gilbert, secretary
 Seventh. The highest amount of in
 dehtedness to which this corporation shal subject itself shall be the sum ot ter t thousand dollars.
 Eighth The private property of the in
 dividuai stockholders of this corporation ? shall be exempt from the corporate debt ? of this corporation.
 Ninth. These articles of incorporation [ may be amended at any time by vote o = tvo-thirds of the stockholders of this cor
 poration at any special meeting called io
 for that purpose.
 In witness whereof we have hereunto SC ! our hands and seal this 2Ith 0ay ot Sep
 tenlbe, A D. 1897, in duplicate. | RANSOM ]. DUNCAN CsEALl
 STEPHEN E.ARTAUR R CsEAL)
 ETHAN A. GILBERT tsEAL) STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ! se
 County of Los AngeleS.i
 Before me- Frank B. Harbert, a Notarl
 Public. in and for said County and State
 personally appeared Ransom J. Duncan Stephen E. Arthur and Ethan A. Gilbert known to me to be the persons Whos'
 names are subscribed to the foregoing in strument and articles of incorporation oI . inc Duncan Mining and Milling Company
 and who acknowledged to me that the! had executed the same for the purpose anC consideration therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and SC eIl of office
 this 25th day Of September, X. D. 1897. l FRANK E. HARBERT,
 Notary Public in and for said County O
 los Angels My commission expires or
 the 22nd day of June, 1900.
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