Bisbee daily review., 1902-07-23
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF EMPIRE SMELLING COMPANY.

EMPIRE SIMPLIFYING COMPANY.
 We. the undersigned. A. M. Franklin c. E. Bell, w. E. Francis, Hartwell Howell and R. B. Parsons do hereby voluntarily associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under and by virtue of the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and we do here by adopt and certify the following Articles 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 cssuL;y of Cochise, Territory cf Arr xona; but the corporation purposes carrying on business outside of as we'll as within the said Territory of Arizona. and to maintain an ofice' or o6ices 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- cer 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 of the properties herein specified:
 2. To mine, extract, purchase, and otherwise acquire, to hold, own, work, sell, trade, exchange and otherwise reduce, refine and otherwise treat, both for itslf and for other persons and corporations, gold, silver, plati- mum, copper. iron, nickel, quicksilver, aluminium, antimony, asbestos and other ores and mineral products, pc troleum, paraffine, asphaltum and oth- CT hydro-carbon substances;
 3. To purchase, erect, build, con struct, lease, rent and otherwise acquire, to own, hold manage, operate and run, both for itself and for other persons and corporations, and to sell, lease, rent and otherwise dispose of concen- trators, smelters, converters, cynaide plants, stamp mills, refineries, reduc- tion works, and any and all other kinds and classes of buildings, ma chinery and appliances for mining, concentrating, smelting, converting, cyaniding, refining, reducing and oth- erwise treating ores, minerals, con- centrates, mates, oils, and other min eral and hydro-oarbon substances and materials;
 4. To purchases, lease, rent, build, construct, erct and otherwise acquire, to hold, own, manage, and operate, TOT mining purposes and both for itsen and for other persons and corpora' tions, and to sell, lease, rent and dis pose of rights of way, franchises, rail roads and railways, trans and tram ways. trolley and cable lines. ditches and fumes, pipes and pipelines, en- zines. ears. boats, elevators and chutes and any and all other proprties, rights machinery and appliances for haulage and transportation.
 s. To purchase, lease, rent, devel- op and otherwise acquire, to own, hold. pump, Hume and pipe, and to sell. lease, rent and otherwise dispose of water and water rights.
 6. To purchase, lease, rent, erect, build. construct and otherwise acquire to own. hold. manage, and operate, both for itself and for other persons and coruorations, and to sell, lease, rent. and otherwise dispose of steam plants, electric plants, gas plants, wa fer piants. and others buildings, ma chinery and appliances for the gener- ation and manufacture of power, and to sell. lease. rent and otherwise dis nose of elctricity and gas for power and othr purposes.
 '. To purchase, lease, rent ana otherwise acquire, to hold and owl and to sell, lease. rent and otherwise dispose of timbr lands and timber to purchase, lease, rent build, erect, construct and otherwise acquire, to own. hold. manage and operate, and tt sell. lease. rent and otherwise dispose of saw mills and blaming mills.
 8. To purchase and otherwise ac- nuire. to hold and own, and to sell, trade. exchange and otherwise dis pose of and deal in shares of stock bonds and mortgages of other corpora lions.
 g. To purchase. lease, rent, build erect. construct and otherwise acquire to own, hold. manage and operate, an to sell. lease, rent and otherwise dis nose of stores. storehouses, warehous es and other buildings, and to pur chase, buy, sell, barter and exchange general merchandise, mining machln- ry and appliances, tools and impie ments, and any and all other articles and things necessary or convenient In the conduct and operation of the business and affairs of this corpora don; and, ,.--.-. ...-.
 10. In addition to the expressed povers herein mentioned, this cor poration and the directors herof sha, have. exercise, use and enjoy any ant III nowers rights privileges and i'm 1