The Arizona sentinel., 1898-12-31
ARTICLES INCORPORATION.
OF TRE Ophir Gol; Hines Company.
OF IRE

for the purpose of forming e0rporauon under the laws of the Territory OfArizona, and do adopt the following articles of in- corporation, to-wit:
 First. That the names of the corpOr- atiors are J. L. Redondo and c, V. Meeden; that the name of the incorpor ation is the Ophir Gold Mines Company; that the principal place of transacting the business of said corporation is and shall be Yuma Yuma county, Arizona, with branch offices at such other places as the 1 board of directors may from time to time designate.
 Second. That the general nature of the butiness proposed to be transacted by said corporation is mining gold and silver metals, and in the turtherance of that purpose, to buy, sell lease, bond, develop and operate mines; to buy, sell lease, bond construct, maintain and operate canals, ditches. fumes, well reservoirs, pipe lines and other equipments necessary or incl dental to the development of water for mining, milling and other purposes; to obtain by purchase or otherwise mill and building sites; to erect thereon all neces- sary buildings, shafts, mills, smelters, con- centratorS, crushers and every and all and every apparatus or contrtvance used in the reduction of gold and other metals: to buy, sell. lease, bond, construct, maintain and operate railroads, wagon roads, tramways or other agencies suitable for the trans portatiOn of ores or other materials to and from the mines to own, handle and con- trol letters patent and inventions relating to and incident to the mining, milling, smelling and reduction of ore; to carry on end maintain general mercantile buSl- ness; to borrow money, issue bonds and to mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of any and all of its property; to acquire both real and personal property which may be incidental or necessary to the carrying into offect the objects and purposes for which said corporation is created, and to do and perform any and all and every the acts and things neceS eSsary to or in any manner incidental to the carrying out of all of the purposes hereinbeiore specified.
 Third That the amount of the capital stock of said corporation shall be one mil lion dollars, divided into one million shares at the par value of one dollar per share Said capital stock may be issued by the
 board of directors for property conveyed or assigned to said corporation, for services
 rendered, or upon subscription for cash ; conditional, however, that no part or DOT tion of said capital stoak shall be issued by
 the board of directors except the same be l
 stock shall be non-assessable.
 Fourth. That the corporate existence of , said corporation shall commence on the day and date of the filing of these articles of incorporation in the office of the county
 recorder Of Yuma county Arizona territory
 and shall terminate twenty-five years
 thereafter.
 Fifth. That the affairs of said corpOr- ation sLa,l be conducted and managed by a board of seven directors. The first board
 O. directors shall consist of Stephen w
 Dorsey, Wm H ReyOnds, James Sim
 mons, Wayne Griswold, Philip K. Reyn-
 olds, H. 4. Kirkham and J H. Carpenter,
 who shall hold their office for period of
 one year from the date of tihng these articles in the office of the county recorder P as aforesaid, or until their successors are elected and qualified. At the expiration . of the year first above specified, board . of directors shall be elected by the stock holders of said corporation at its regular = annual meeting; said annual meeting to be e held on the second Monday in October in = each year. The officers of said corporation shall consist of president. secretary and treasurer, and such other subordinate ' officer as the board of directors may from A time to time see lit to appoint. The presi dent shall be member of the board of directors and eeci ed by said board at thelr first regular meeting held after the annual stockholders meeting. No person shal ] be eligible to the office of director unless ht
 be bona tide stockholder i'll said copor
 ation. In the event of the death or resig-
 nation of any director the remaining mem
 bers of the board of directors of said cor poration shall have the power to fill sucf f vacancy for the unexpired term thereof. Sixth. That the highest amount of in- debtedness which said corporation may a ', any time subject itself to shall not exceed I the sum of five hundred thousand dollors
 Seventh. That all the private property n of the stockholders ofsaid corporation shal
 be ,exempt from liability for corporate q debls.
 '. In witness whereof, we have hereuntc f set our hands and seals this eighth day = of October, 1o98.
 o fsaAL) J. L. REDONDO. o IsEALi C. Y. MEEDEN D TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,l ss
 COUNTY OF YUMA,
 Before me, o. F. Townsend, a nOtar.
 public in and for the county of Yuma
 Territory of Ariz ma, personally appeared
 J. L. RedouliD and C. V. Meeden, knowI q to lne to be the persons whose names arr
 subscribed to the foregoing instrument
 and acknowledged to me that they execute ] the same for the purpose and consideration
 therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of otfic s this 8th day of October, 4. D. 1898.
 C5EAD o. F. TOWNSEND, Notary Public.
 Nv commission expires April 7, 1899 :, Recorded at the request of J. L. Re y doudo. October 8 1898, at ? 0 clock p, m. v c. P. GROWN, County Recorder. ~ By R. w. BYLER, Deputy. = First publication December g. 1898. = NOTICE.