The Arizona sentinel., 1899-08-19
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF The Consolidated Copper Com
 paHy.
INCORPORATION

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That We, J Ii. Carpenter and J. L Redondo, citizens of the United States of America, have this day asso- ciated ourselves together for the purpose of forming Corporation under and by virtue of the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and do hereby adopt the fol- owing Articles of Incorporation, namely;
 FIRST.
 That the name of the Corporators are J. H. Car penter and J. L. Redondo; that the name of the Cor poration shall be THE CONSOLIDATED COPPER COMPANY; that the principal place for the trans action of the business of the Corporation shall be the town of Yuma in Yuma County, Territory of Ari- zOna, with branch offices at such other places the Board of Directors may from time to time designate.
 SECOND
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by said Corporation is mining copper, gold, silver and all other metals and in the further ancc of the object to buy, sell lease bond develop and operate mines, smelters mining claims mills, cyanide plants, pumps, mills, coal mines, coke ovens; to buy, sell lease bond construct maintain and operate canals ditchcs, umes reservoirs, wells pipe lines and all other equipments necessary or in cidenta to the development of water and power for mining, milling and domestic purposes; to obtain by purchase or otherwise mill building and town sites to erect thereon all necessary buildings for it's own use or to rent, shafts, mills, smeters concentrators crushers and all kinds of machinery apparatus or contrvance necessary or usef in reducing ores and extracting the values therefrom to buy own. lease bond, construct, maintain and operate railroads. wagon roads, electric roads, tramways or any other agency adapted to the conveyance of ores, freight material of any kind, as well passengers; to own control buy and sell papers or other inventions ir any way relating to the mining business to carry on and maintain general merchandise business, or to grant exclusive rights to others to do so on the nrem ises ot the Corporation; to borrow money. issue o0ndS' and to mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dis pose of any or all of its property; to acquire bot real and personal property of any and every sort to buy and sell the same; to consolidate it's property with other corporations; to buy, sell and own the stock or bonds of other corporations and to do and perform in any and all acts and things necessary tc do or in any manner incidental to the carrying out of all the purposes hereinbefore specified.
 THIRD.
 The amount of the Capital ltock of said Corpora- tion shall be Ten millions (S1O,OOO, ,O0O) dollars divided into tour hundred thousand (400 900 lbares Of the par value of Twenty-Five S6 Oo) dollars each Stock may be issued at any time by the Roar5 o Directors in payment for property conveyed r, assigned to said Corporation or for services rendered UT upon subscription at par for cash, provided how eVer that no part portion of said stock shall bt iSSued Oy the Board of Directors, except the same shall pc fully paid up and wben so issued bythe Boar, of Directors said stock shall be assessable anc no personal liability shall attach to the holde1 thereof.
 FOURTH.
 That the corporate existence of said Corporation snail commence upon the day and date of the llin. o those Articles of Incorporation in the office of tho County Recorder of Yuma County Arizona Territory ana shall terminate twenty-five years hereafter. FIFTH.
 That the affairs of said Corporation shall be man. | aged by Board of Seven @ Directors. The frs Board of Directors shall consist of John P. Jones Henry A. hirkham, J. H. Carpenter, c. V. Meeden | J. M Gresvenor, James Simmons, J. L. Redond, ana Who shall hold their offices for a period of ont year from the date these Articles are recorded O until their successors duly elected and uu allied At the expiration ofthe year above stated or sool Ii the stockholders elect, new Board of Director shall be elected by the stockholders of said Corpora ton at its regular annual meeting said annual meet ing to be held on the second Monday in October O each year in the town of Yuma Territory of Arizona SIXTH
 The officers of said Corporation shall consist o President, Vice-President, Secretary Assistan Secretary and Treasurer and such other officers a the Board of Directors may from time to time deter mine. The President and Vice-P President shall b, | members of the Board of Directors and no Director shall hold office who is not bonatide stockhoIder ! record in said Corporation. In the event of tn, death, resignation or disability of any Director, tn, remaining members of the Board of Directors ma, fill the vacancy by the election of some stockholder SEVENTH,
 The highest amount of indebtedness said Corpora tion shall at any time create shall not exceed th, sum of Three Million (33, 900 ,O0O) Dellars. EIGHTH.
 That all private property of the stockholders 1T said corporation shall be exempt from any and al liabilities for corporate debts
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereuuto sci our hands and seals, this 18th day of May, A. D. 1899.
 J. H. CARPENTER
 J. L. REDONDO.