Bisbee daily review., 1902-08-02
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 Or EMPIRE sMELr,NS COMPANY.

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 EMPIRE SMElr,NS ..uMPANv.
 We, the undersigned. A. M. Franklin c. E. Bell, w. F. Francis. Hartwell Nowell and R. B Parsons do hereby voluntarily associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under and by virtue of the jaws of the Territory of Arizona. and we do here by adopt and certify the following Al tisles of Incorporation, to-wit:
 Article 1. The name of this corpc- ration shall be Empire SmeItins Company, and its principal place of business shal be at Benson. in the coup;y of Ccchise, Territory ci Ari- xona; but the corporation purposes carrying on business outside of as we'll as within the said Territory of Arizona, and to maintain an ofhce or offices in the city and county of San Francisco, state of California, at which said last named place meetings of directors and stockholders may be held.
 Article II. The purposes for which this corporation is formed are;
 l. To purchase. locate, patent, lease, rent and otherwise acquire, to own, hold, develop, work, operate, and mine. and to sell, to lease. rent and otherwise dispose of mines, mining claims, mining and mineral rights. pla- car claims, mill sites, oil wells and lands. and other real estate and prop erty. and also rights. titles, interests and estates in and to any and all or the properties herein specified:
 2. To mine, extract, purchase, ana otherwise acquire. to hold. own, work' cell. trade, exchange and otherwise dispose of, and to concentrate. smeit' reduce. refine and otherwise treat, both for itslf and for other persons and corporations, gold, silver. plsfi- mum. copper, iron, nickel. qpicksiivef. aluminium, antimony, asbestos anu other ores and mineral products pc troleum, parafane. ssphaltum ana o1n- CT hydro carbon substances;
 3. To purchase. erect, build. con struct, lease. rent and otner~lse acquire, to own, hoio manage, operate and run. ootn Ioi itself and for other peIsons and corporations. and to sell lease rent and otherwise dispose of concen- t-ators, smelters. converters, cynaioe nIants. stamp mills, refneries, reduc- tion works, and any and all otner kinds and classes of buildings, ma chinery and appliances for mining' concentrating, smelting, converuns' cyaniding, refining, reducing ana otn- arwise treating ores, minerals, con centrates. mates, oils, and other mn, eral ani hydro-oarbon substances ana materials; h,,,,d
 To purcahses, lease, rent, Duilo' construct. erct and otherwise acquire to hold. own, manage, and operate, loi mining purposes and both TOT ilseh and for other persons and corpora tions and to sell, lease, rent ana dis- nose of rights of way, franchises, ralf roads and railways, trans and tram ways trolley and cable lines, dltches and fumes, pipes and pipelines en- gines cars. boats, elevators and chutes and any and all other proprties, rights machinery and appliances ioi
 and sportatlon. .a,
 5. To purchase, lease rent ueve an and otherwise acquire, to o"h' hold. pump, Hume and pipe, anu eo sell lease, rent anu oeIcA "'SO of water and water rights.
 6. To purchase, lease, rent
 build. construct and otherwise acqune to own. hold, manage, ana opef aee' hoth for i.self and for other persons and corporadons, and to sell, ieaee' -ant ana otherwise dispose of steam nlants. electric plants, gas plants wa fer plants, and others buildings, w chinerv and appliances for the geher s,ion and manufacture Of power anu to sell. lease, rent and otner"ise uis r,oee of elctricity and gas for power and othr purposes.
 To purchase, lease, rent anu otherwise acquire, to hoio anu omt and to sell, lease, rent ana otner "ie' disnose of timbr lands and lmpel to nnrchase. lease, rent build, erect construct and otherwise acquire, to own hold. manage and operate, ana U coll lease. rent and otherwise dispose of cav mills and blaming mills.
 To purchase and otherwise ac
 ,,;re to hold and own, and to sell trade exchange and otherwise us .oso of and deal in shares of stoch tonds and mortgages of other corpora uons. . hr;,d
 -act construct and otherwise acquire to own hold, manage and operate, an so sell lease, rent and otherwise dis nose of stores, storehouses, warenous ee and other buildings, and to pui chase. buy, sell, barter and excnahs. o.neral merchandise, mining macnlh- ry and appliances, tools and imple
 .rts and any and all other articles end things necessary or convenient sn the conduct and operation of the hrs;ness and affairs of this corpora ton; and,
 10, In addition to the expresseo
 -. herein mentioned, this cor