Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1901-07-20
Articles Of Incorporation
Southern Exploration and Com
mercial Company.


and C. O. RetsloG, have this day associated
ourselves together for the purpose OF forming
corporation under the laws Of the Territory
OF Arizona, and we do hereby certifY.
That the name OF the corporation is declared
TO be Southern Exploration and CONNER cial
Company and its principal place for transact
ing business shall be Kingman County Of Mo
have, Territory of Arizona, with branch offices
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:
1. To engage in and carry on in all branches,
in every part OF the world, a 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 10 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 builc 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.
2. To contribute In every manner to the ex.
pepse 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 70, or dispose Of stocks or Sc
cureties OF this or any other corporation; to
do such business of whatever nature, and In
such places In every part OF the world as the
Board OF Directors may from time to time de
termine. ...... ... ..
g. 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 10 tend 10 ad-
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 CslO0,0oo0O divided into ONE HUN.
DRIED THOUSAND SHARES 100000 OF the par
value OF ONE DOLLAR Csl.0D 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 paid and non assessablc.
4. ...
That the time OF commencement OF said cor.
poration shall be the day Of the filing OF these
articles in the once OF the Recorder OF Mohaye
County Territory Of Arizona, and the termInar
ton 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 Css,OOo.0O).
The private property OF stockholders OF this
corporation shall not in any event be liable for
the debts OF this corporation
T.
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. G. Hallocl.
Harrie X. Hardness,
J. r. b. Coon,
G. O. Retslor,
The said Board Of Directors shall be elected
annually on the first Monday in July OF each
year by the stockholders, and shall hold ONCE
fnr he. -
eessors are elected and have qualified. The
time and manner Of such election, and the
qualifications of the Directors shall be pre-
scribed in and provided for by the Bylaws Of
this corporation. The officers OF the Board Of
Directors shall be President, vice-President
Secretary and Treasurer and General Manager,
and such other oficers as the Board may order
and direct
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our
hands and seals this second day of July, A. ID.
1901. CHAS. A. WAINWRIGHT. (SeaI
J. @. HALLoCK (Seal)
HARRIE X. HARDNESS, (Seal)
J. II. b. COON (Seal)
G. o. RETSLOFF, (SeaD
STATE OF CALIFORNIA &C
City and County Of San Francisco. %
On this I'd day of July, in the year One Thou.
sand Nine Hundred and One, before me, A. X.
Daggett, Notary Public in and for the City
and County Of San francisco, residing therein.
duly commissioned and sworn, personally APP.
peared Chas. A. Wainwright, J. O. Hallock,
Harrie X. Hardness, J. X. B. Coon and C. o.
Retslofr. known to me TO be the persons whose
names are subscribed toshe within instrument
and acknowledged to me that they executed
the same.
In WITNESS WHEREOF, have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my official seal at my Of
fee in the City and County Of San Francisco,
the day and year in this certificate first above
written A. X DAGGETT.
Notary Public In and for the City and Country