The oasis., 1900-01-27
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 -OF THE DESERT LIMITATION COMPANY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THEsE PRESENTS: That we. the undersigned have ths day vOluntari ' assOciat d Oursel yes together fo the purpuse of forming a corporation under the laws of the territory of Arizona; and we hereby certify and declare:
 FIR T That the names Of the incorpora- tors are $. A. MckEows. W. c. WoODAsD. and W II. GREER; and that ths name of the corporation Is the Desert Lixiviation Com pany and that the principal place of tran sacting the business of this corporation is at Patagonia County of Santa Uruz. Arizona Territory, but 1t may establish office by resolution of it's Board of Directors at the city of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles county. California.
 SECOND. The general nature of the busi- ness proposed to be transacted is that of mining and milling gold, silver aod other p ,ecious metals; buyin selling and dealing in mines and mining stock; building tram ways to and from said mines that it may own. acquire or control; extracting, buying selling and milling ores of all kinds, and for that purpose erecting stump mills and smelters for the purpose of reducing an {, treating ores and running the same by steam or electricity or water power, or all com bined or separate.
 THiRD. The amount of the capital st ck of this corporation shall be Fifty Thousand 1000, Dollars. divided into Ten Thousand 10000 shares of the par value of Five (S5) Dollars each; and the same shall be paid Tn cash or in property at a fair valuation within 8 days after the stock Is subscribed. FOURTH. The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be when these articles are filed for record in the office of the county recorder of Santa Cruz county. terri tory of Arizona: and the termination of its existence shall be twenty-ive l25J years thereafter.
 FIFTH. The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by q Board of Directors con sisting of three i3l persons, who shall be elected at the first meeting of the stock holders after the filing of the articles of in- corporation for record in the office of the county recorder in the county of Santa Cruz territory of Arizona. Thereafter directors shall be elected annually on the second Mon day of January in each year,
 SIXTH The highest amount of indebted ness or liability for which this corporation is at any time to subject itself shall be Five Thousand s5, ,0OOl Dollars.
 SEVENTH. The private property of the stockholders shall be exempt from the cor porate debts of this company.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this fourth day of January, 1900.
 s.A. McKEowM, Lseall
 W. C. WOODARD, lseall
 W. H. GREER lSeal State of California, lss
 County of Los Angeles.
 On this 4th day of January, in the year nineteen hundred. before me, John l.. Elem ing, a notary public in and for said county and state residing therein, duly commis- stoned and sworn, personally appeared '. A. McKeowm, w C. Woodland and ". II. Greer. known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument. and they each acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purpose and con- sideration therein expressed.
 Witness my hand and official seal, this January 4th 1900
 JOHN L. FLEMING (SeaD Notary Public. m and for the County of Los Angeles State of California. Territory of Arizona. t County of santa Cruz. ss
 I hereby certify that the within instru- nent wes fled and subscribed at the request )f W. H Greer, January flth, ID, 1900, at P. NJ. Book Miscellaneous Witness my hand and official seal the day md year aforesaid.
 W. N. CUMMINGS
 County Recorder
 By LOUIS HUDGIN.
 Deputy.