The Arizona sentinel., 1902-05-14
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE Inyo Gold Company.

Know all men by these Presents that we the undersigned, are citizens of the United States Of America, and do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end adopt the follow ing articles of incorporation, to wit:
 ARTICLE I.
 The names of the incorporators are: W. s. James, j. P. Flint, ]. c. Scannell, Geo. W |. LaSEer and O. r. Widaman. and the name of the corporation shall be the iiyO God Company. The principal place in which the business of said corporation is to be transacted in the Territory of Arizona is at Yuma, Yuma coun- ty, Arizona, and the principal place of busi- ness of said corporation outside of the Terri tory of Arizona shall be the City of Los An geles, County of Los Angeles, State of Cali fornia and at which said last named place meetings of the Board of Directors Of suo h corporation may Oe held, and the corporation may have such branch offices, either within or without the Territory of Arizona, as may be established by the Board of Directors
 ARTICLE II.
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as fol- lows, to wit:
 To purchase lease, bond, locate or condemn or otherwise acquire, own, hold, exchange sell. or otherwise dispose of, or pledge mortgage, hypOthecatc and deal iE real estate, franchises and any and all kinds of personal property, mines, mining claims, prospects, placer ground, oil, oil lands mineral lands, gas, aSphaltum, petroleum, electricity, electric power, water, water rights. coal and coal lands, salt and salt mines or Gc pOSIts, bOraX deposits and machinery, and to work, mine, explore, operate and develop the same; to establish, operate and maintain salt plants, saw mills, quartz stamp mills, concentrating and cyanide plants hydraulic and Sluicing works, well drilling machinery and apparatus, storage tanks, TeHncri1S fol metals. minerals and oils, aSSaying plants; and tO erect, operate. and maintain gas and gas works, electric lighting and power plants, water power; to construct, operate and maintain canals, ditches, fumes, pipe lines, reSerVOlrS and water tanks; to construct Op- crate and maintain tramWayS, street rail- ways, railroads. wagon roads, stages and stage lines; to erect and conduct hotels, lodg- ing and boarding houses, restaurants, store houses, stores and other buildings and to do a general merchandise business: to own, sell, handle and control letters patent, trade marks and inventions; to buy, sell and hy- pOthecate shares of capital stock of other corporations; to borrow money and execute notes, bonds, mortgages, or deeds of trust as evidences of such Indebtedness and to secure the same; to accept notes, bonds, mortgages, pledges or other evidences of indebtedness from individuals. or other corporations, and to exercise in respect of all Sucn bOndS mort gageS, notes, pledges, or other evidences of indebtedness, and any securities and Obliga- tlonS, and any and all rights, powers and privileges of individual owners thereof, n- cludIng the right to vote any shares of stock so held Ey it to the same extent that a nat ural person might or could do; and in gen eral to do all things necessary and requisite
 
 corporation in the Territory of Arizona and the State of California and elsewhere not in- consistent With the laws of the Territory of Arizona and the laws of the United States of America.
 ARTICLE III.
 The authorized capital stock of this corpor- ation shall be Five Hundred Thousand Dol lars $500 000.W), divided into Fifty Million (00,UOCO0l shares of the par value of One Cent Qc) each. Said capital stock shall be paid into this corporation either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real or per sOnal property for the uses and purposes of this corporation at such time as the Board of Directors may, by resolution, direct, author iZe and accept, and such payment, for which shares of The capital stock of this corporation may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupOn and thereby become and be fully paid up and nOn-aSsesSable, and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the Judgment of the directors to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 ARTICLE ".
 The time of the commencement of this cor pOratiOn shall be the date of the filing of these articles of incorporation in the office of the Secretary of the Territory of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty five years thereafter, with the privilege of a renewal of the said term for an additional De TiOd of twenty-five years. should the corpOra- uOn by proper resolution so decide.
 ARTICLE V.
 The affairs of this corporation shall be con- ducted by board of five directors and the fOllOwing-named persons shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: w. S. James, residing at Los An geleS, California; J. r. Flint, residing at Los Angeles, CalifOrnia; J. O. Scannell, residing at Los Angeles, California; Geo. W. LaSher. residing at Los AngeiS, California, and O. P. W1danan, residing at Los Angeles, Cal. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders at the time and in the manner which may be pro- Vlded by the Bylaws of this corporation.
 ARTICLE VT.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or Iia- biltty, direct or contingent to which this cor poFatlOn IS at any time subject shall be Three Hundred Thirty-three Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-twO Dollars (S333, ,332.O0)
 ARTICLE VII.
 The private property of the stockholders of this corporation Shal be exempt from cOrpor- ate debts of any kind whatsoever.
 In witness whereof, we have hereuntO set onr hands and seals this 18th day of April, 1902.
 W. $. JAMES SEAL
 j. Q. SCANEEIL SEAL
 c. F. WIpAMAN SEAL
 GEO. W. LASHER SEAL
 J. P, FLINT lSEALI
 STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
 County of Los Angeles. '1o' On this 18th day of April. in the year A. D. l9JZ. before me. .J. MiSeman Macdonald 9 Notary Public in and for the State an1 cOun- tT aforesaid, residing therein, duly commits ! : toned and sworn, personally appeared w. <. 1 James, J. r. Flint, Q. I. Wid1man, J. O. | ScannCIl Ond Geo. W. LaSher, known to me ! tO be the persons described in, whose names ! are subscribed to, and who executed the an- 1 neXed instrument, and they acknowledged to | me that they executed the same for the pur- | -,.tal., T aT. T. ff[..,s