The Weekly orb., 1899-01-08
Articles of Incorporation
--oF THE-
North Bisbee Copper and
 Gold Mining Company.

OOlu UIlllIS OU1llPduy. KKow ALL MEN BY THESE PRrsENTs:
 That we, the undersigned. J. R. Ghiselin. J, W. Dunlap, J. F. Bunce George c. McNa- mara W. A. Hallowcll, Jr., Henry Lee, c. c, Wright and D. W. Mitchell propose to or ganize corporation under the laEs of the Territory of Arizona, and for tiisE purpose to make, sign and acknowledge, according to law, and adopt the folio wing articles of incorporation:
 ARTICLE I.
 The name of this corporation shall be the NORTH BISBER COPPER AND GOLD MIN. ING COMPANY, and it's principal places of trsnsacting business shall be at Bisbee, Ari- zona and the City of Los Angeles. in the State of California, with offices at such other places to be designated by the board of di- rectors of said company.
 ARTICLE II.
 The nature of the business to be transacted is to purchase, acquire, lease, own, control, mine, operate, or sell, transfer or dispose of mines, mining property, and mining rights; also to purchase, acquire, own. lease, con- trol sell, transfer or dispose of water and water rights, ores. minerals, metals or oils; also to manufacture, purchase, lease, ac- quire. own, control or operate reduction works, smelter or smelters and all otber mining machinery and appliances necessary thereto, and gas, electric light and power plants, and all patents and patent rights and licenses thereto appertainiRg: also to refine ores; also to purchase, acquire, lease. own, control improve, manage, subdivido or dis pose of lands, tenements and franchises and ail kinds of property, real, personal or mixed; also to manufacture. buy or sell all kinds of merchandise, and to do and perform all things necessary to carry out the pur- poses aforesaid within or without the Terri- tory of A, izona, and to purchase, acquire. own, pre-empt and sell its own stock aud the stock of other corporations.
 ARTICLE TIL
 The amount of the capital stock shall be 1 the sum of one million dollars [$l, ,0oo,O % ) di- vided into one million (l.OoO 00O) shares of tho par value of one dollar (Sl.O0) each, which capital stock shall be paid in upon the call of the board of directors of this corporation, and it shall be forever non-assessable, and each certificate, when issued. shall state upon it's face the number of shares repre- sented thereby, and that the same is fully paid and forever non-assessable.
 ARTI LIE ".
 The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these articles of incorporation in the Re- corder's office of Cochise County, Arizona. anl the torm thereof shall be twenty Ave :! years thereafter
 ARTICLE v.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or lia- biiity to which this corporation shall at any time subject itself shall be the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($J0O 0OO).
 ARTICLE VI.
 | The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by a board of eight directors, to be elected among the stockholders of the cor 1 poration at the annual stockholders' meet. ing, which shall be held in the office of the company, to be designated by the directors, on the first Monday in December, in each year, and until the next annual meeting of the stockholders the affairs of this corpora. 1 tion shall be conducted by the following board of directors: J.R. Ghiselin. J. W. Dun- lap, J.F Bunce, George G. McNamara, W. | h. uuhOWcL, henry Lee, V. V. wright and D. w. Mitchell, who shall hold office un- til their successors shall be duly elected and qualified.
 1 ARTICLE VII.
 The officers of this corporation shall be . president vice-president, general manager, secretary and treasurer, and such other off . cers as may be prov ided for by the board of directors.
 The following named persons shell csnsti- ute the officers of this corporation until the first meeting of the board of dire ctors after the first annual election: ], R. GAisslin, president and general manager; Henry Lee yice-president and assistant general mana ger; J. K. Dunlap, secretary and treasurer. | :,-A . ARTICLE VIII.
 The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from liability for it's corporate debts. 1E WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands the 7th day .of December, lsss 1 ]. R. GHIsELIN, | J.W. DUNLAP, J.F, RUNCE. GEO. W. .McNAMARA. W. A. HoLLowKLL, JR. HENRY LEE, 1 C.C. WRIGHT, D. W. MITCHELL.