Mohave County miner., 1901-07-27
Articles Of incorporation
Southern Exploration and Com
mercial Company.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That
we, the undersigned, Chas. A. Wainwright j.
c. Hallock. Harrie k Hardness, J. r. b. Coon
and c. o. Retslof, have this day associated
ourselves together for the purpose OF forming
a corporation under the laws OF the Territory
Of Arizona, and we do hereby oertifT.
That the name of the corporation is declared
to be Southern Exploration and Commercial
Company and its principal place for transact
ing business shall be Kingman, County OF Mo
have, Territory OF Arizona, with branch ofiices
at San Francisco, State OF California and Es-
merales, Ecuador, South America and such
other places as the Board OF Directors may de-
eide. ...
That the general nature OF the business pro.
posed to be transacted is as follows:
/. To engage in and carry on in all branches,
in every part of the world, general CONNER
cial, mercantile, mining, shipping, transpor
tation, express banking and safe deposit bus
mess; in any manner, and in every part OF the
world, to acquire by purchase, condemnation,
exchange, location appropriation, or other.
wise, and TO SELL mortgage, least, or otherwise
dispose OF property of every kind, and any In.
terests therein to erect, establish, buy. lease,
operate ana dispose of lands, mines, stores,
ware houses, safe-deposit vaults, factories,
vessels, waterworks, wharves. docks, hotels,
boarding houses and other built ings and
works, that In the opinion OF the Board OF Di-
rectors for the tine being may facilitate the
carrying on OF the business OF saId corporation.
p To contribute in every manner TO the ex-
pense OF constructing, improving, maintaining
or operating any works deemed calculated by
its Board OF Directors for the time being to
directly or indirectly advance the interests OF
the corporation; TO acquire, hold, contract
with reference TO- or dispose OF, stocks or Sc
cureties OF this or any other corporation; to
do such business of whatever nature, and ir
such places in every part Of the world as the
Board Of Directors may from time to time de
termine
.. To promote, maintain, do, acquire, own,
operate and dispose OF, each and everything
incidental TO, or which in the judgment of its
Board Of Directors may be necessary, conyen-
lent, or proper TO carry out or perform any OF
the purposes aforesaid, or which In the judg
ment Of the Board Of Directors for the time
being may tend. or be declared TO tend, to nd
vance the interests OF the corporation directly
or indirectly.
That the amount OF the capital stock of this
corporation shall be ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS (si000oo.0O) divided into ONE HUN
DRIED THOUSAND SHARES 100000 OF the par
value OF ONE DOLLAR Csl.00) each, and the same
shall be paid for in cash or its equivalent in
full as the same shall be subscribed, and when
issued. shall be full pald and non -assessable.
T.
That the time OF commencement OF said cor.
poration shall be the day OF the filing Of these
articles In the ONCE of tine Recorder Of Mohaye
County, Territory OF Arizona. and the termlna-
tion thereof shall be twenty-five years there
after.
The direct or contingent Indebtedness OF this
corporation shall at no time exceed TWENTY
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS (25OO0,OO).
The private property Of stockholders of this
corporation shall not in any event be liable for
the debts OF this corporation. ..
Z.
The affairs OF this corporation shall be man
aged and conducted by Board OF Directors
consisting of Five persons who shall be bona
fide stockholders OF this corporation and the
names and residences of the Directors who are
appointed for the first year, 10 serve until the
election and qualification OF their successors,
are as follows, to-wit:
Chas. A. Wainwright, San Francisco, Cal.
J. c. Hallocl.
Harrie K Harlsness