Arizona republican., 1902-06-12
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF RUBY AIANUFACTURING COM
 PANY."

| E4S | are hereunto affixed. do hereby assuci- ate ourselves together for the purpose of forming corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the following state ment:
 FIRST: The names of the corpora tors are: Stephen F. RansdeIl, St Louis. Mo-: William P. GUrr. St. Louis, Mo: Charles L. Nandewater, St. Louis, Mo. and the name of the cooperation shall be Ruby Manufacturing Com pany. The principal place in which the business Of said corporation within the Territory of Arizona is to be trans acted is Phoenix. Maricopa County. Arizona. and the principal place of business of said corporatio outside the Territory of Arizona. shall be the City cf St. Louis. in the state of Missouri. at which meetings of the Board of Di- reCtors may be held, and the corpora ton may have such branch offices cit her within or without the Territory of Arizona as may be esttbiished oy the Board of Directors. And We here by appoint the Secretary of State of the Territory of Arizona our agent. upon whom all notices and processes, includ- ing service of summons may be served.
 Second The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows. to-wit:
 To purchase. lease. bond. locate or otherwise acquire. own. exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of. pledge. mort gage. hypOthecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of per- sonal property. mines. mining claims. cil lands. mineral lands oil. gas, as phaltum. petroleum, water and water rights and machinery and to work. mine. explore. operate and develop the same: to do q general real estate. man. ufacturing and mercantile business. 10 own. handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of capital stock of other corporations: to borrow money and execute notes. bonds. mort eages. or deeds of trust to secure the same. and to exercise in respect of all such bonds mortgages, notes. shares of capital stock and other securities and obligations. and any and all rights powers and privileges of individual owners thereof including the right to vote upon any shares of stock held by it to the same extent that natural person might or could do; and in gen eral to do all things necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this corporation in the Territory and else where. moi inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the Territory Of Arizona.
 THIRD: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation siall be Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1Gc .c00.00) divided into Five Thousard shares (50G0) shares of the par value of One Hundred dollars ($10G.00) each At such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct. said capital stock shall be paid into this corpora tion either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real or personal prop erty. fer the uses and purposes of said corporation, in payment for which shares of the capital stock of said cor por3tion may be issued and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and he fully paid up and nOn-assessa ble. and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Directors as to the valTe of the property purchased shall be conclusive
 FOURTH: The time of the com mencement Of this corporation shali be the date of the filing of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the Secretary of Arizona. and the tc~mina- i lion thereof shall he twenty-five years thereafter.
 l FIFTH: The affairs of this corpora l tion shall be conducted by q Board of three (3) Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of ] Directors until their successors are i elected: Stephen F. Ramsden. st. i Louis. Mo. William P Gurr St Louis. 
 Mo. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall he elected from among the stock holders of as the bylaws of the cor pora;ion may provide.
 SIXTH: The highest amount of in- debtedness CT liability. direct or con- tingent, to which this corporation is at any time subject shall be Fifty Thou sand Dollars (s50 00u.G0).
 SEVENTH: The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall he exempt from corporate debts Of any kind Wha tsoever
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. We have hereunto set our hands and seals ths .3rd day of May. 1902
 STEPHEN F. RAMSDELL. (SeaD WILLIAM P. GURR. CSeall CHARLES L. NANDEWATER. (Sea) State of Missouri.
 i County of St Louis. ss.
 On this 23rd day of May. in the yeal t932. before me. NorWood Fitch. a No tary Public in and for the State anc City aforesaid, residing therein duIy commissioned and sworn. personally appeared Stephen r. Ramsdell. William P. Gurr and Charles l.. Nandewater
 known to me to be the persons de- scribed in. whose names are subscribed to. and who executed the annexed in strument. and they acknowledged tC
 me that they executed the same for tho purposes and consideration therein expressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I hay, hereunto set my hand and affixed my
 official seal. at my office in the sai,
 State and City. the day and year las
 above written.
 l (Notarial Seal)
 NOBWOOD FITCH.
 Notary Public, City of :. Louis. Mo
 My commission expires March 22
 1904
 Territory of Arizona.