Arizona republican., 1901-04-09
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the ILEX COPPER MINING AND SMEI TING COMpANy

ii4fs-N tpIGEft MlNING AND SIMPLIFYING COMPANY. Know All Men by These Presents | That we. the undersigned, NJ. B. Lind.
 ley, Morton Lindley Fred Chapman I for ourselves, our associates and sue. l cessors, have associated ourselves to. gether for the purpose of forming a
 corporation under and by virtue of the
 statutes and laws of the Territory oi Arizona, and We do hereby certify and declare as follows, viz:
 First. The name of this corporatiou
 shall be the Hex Copper Mining and Smelting Company.
 Second. The purposes for which this corporation is formed are smelting. re- fining, manufacturing and buying and
 selling ores and mining products of all
 kinds, buying and selling real estate
 stock and bonds of other corporations
 buying. selling and manufacturing ma
 chinery and merchandise of all kinds,
 conducting boarding houses and hotels,
 laying out town sites, buying and sell
 ing town lots, and other property.
 building houses. lending money, issu-
 Ing notes. mortgages, bonds and other
 evidences of indebtedness and disposing
 of the same. and conducting any and all
 other lawful business necessary for the
 promotion and carrying on of any of
 the businesses connected with this cor
 pcfation, organizing corporations for
 the purpose of carrying on any and all
 business mentioned herein. also voting
 Tor and electing officers of any cOrpo-
 ration. The stocks of which corpora-
 tons may be held by this company. and
 to build. erect, purchase. lease. and
 otherwise acquire and possess and own.
 manage and operate mills smelters, re-
 auction works and all necessary ap-
 purtenances and appliances herewith.
 and all necessary buildings. factories.
 machinery. material. appliances and
 other things used or employed in ar about smelting. refining, mining and
 manufacturing; to locate, appropriate. purchase, hold. rent. lease and other
 wise acquire, own and possess mines mining claims. mining lands. contain ing any and all valuable ores. metals. mlnerals or deposits, and any and all other kinds of real estate or interests therein in any portion of the United
 V. transfer grant, rent lease mortgage. or otherwise encunber or dis
 pose of any or all of said properties, rights; or easements. or any interests therein. Co purchase tease, or in any manner acquire. own or possess, and to transfer, sell, convey. pledge mortgage, hypothecate. or oth- erwise cucumber and dispose of the stock. shares, bonds, certificates or in- terests of any person. company or cor poration; to locate. appropriate. pur- chase lease or otherwise own, possess or acquire sites for the location. man. agement and operation of mills. smelt- CTS, factories or reduction works. to To- cate' appropriate, rent, lease or other wise own, acquire or possess, and to hold. develop, maintain. operate. man. age and to grant. sell, convey, lease. rent mortgage and otherwise hypothe- cate and cucumber and dispose of any water, water rights or irrigation iltches, fumes, pipes or canals in any portion of the United States of Amer lea, or elsewhere: to make, manufac- lure, purchase lease. rent, or in any manner acquire title or possession to any and all kinds of personal property. 1 ma to sell. transfer, mortgage, assign, | lSpothecate. pledge, rent, lease or in ! my manner cucumber or dispose of the | same to mine. extract, transport. re- luce, and treat in any manner or by | my method now known or which here 'fter may be discovered. all ores, met lls. minerals, and deposits of every de- cription or character; to purchase. 'ohstruct, rent, lease, build, operate. ise, maintain and otherwise acquire 'ossesslon to rights of way, roadways. ramways, railways and other ease nents of like nature, necessary. proper 'r convenient in and about the main ehance or operation of any of it's busi- less or enterprises. or any of it's prop rties, and to bargain. sell grant, con- eg, rent, lease, mortgage and other 'lse cucumber and dispose of tlie same; 0 do any and all such otl.er things as idS De necessary, proper. usual. or con- e"leht In the transaction. mainten- nee or operation of any of it's enter lIses' or business or properties.
 ihird. The place where the principal uslness of this corporation shall be transacted is Phoenix in the County of iaIcopa, Territory of Arizona, but a ranch office may be located at Chi ago Illinois; New York City. New orh, Philadelphia Pennsylvania; Bos- 'h' Massachusetts; Denver Colorado: ait Lake City, Utah; Winnemoca and oiconda, Nevada; san Francisco rultdale, Berkley. Oakland and Red . ns' california; for occupancy of off ,IS ana stockholders meetings and ahsaction of all business.
 rourth' The term for which this cor n .rdt'oh shall exist shall be twenty-five '' years The existence of this cor 'latioh shall commence upon the ,anting of its charter
 Hun. The number of Directors of LIS corporation shall be five, and the c