Mohave County miner., 1902-05-03
Articles of Incorporation
OF THE
Cedar Valley Mining Company

we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do here
by associate ourselves together for the purpose
of forming a corporation under the laws OF the
Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the
following statement
FIRST: The name Of the corporators are!
j. Thompson Baker Charles Keighley, Philip
p. Baker Robert p. Wilson, d. Harry Chandler
Benz. f. Ladd, Jno. G. Jennings, and the name
OF the Corporation shall be Cedar Valley Min
ing Company The principal place in which the
business of said Corporation within the Terri
tory of Arizona is to be transacted is Mohave
County, Arizona, and the principal place OF
business OF said Corporation outside the Ter
ritory OF Arizona shall be the city OF Phila-
delphia in the state of Pennsylvania, at which
meetings of the Board of Directors may be
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.
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 dis
pose OF. pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal
in real estate and any and all kinds Of personal
property, mines mining claims, oil lands min
eral lands, oil, gas asphaltum petroleum, wa
ter and water rights and machinery, and to
work, mine, explore, operate and develop the
same to do general real estate, manufactur-
ing and mercantile business; 70 own, handle
and control letters patent and inventions and
shares of capital stock of other corporations;
to borrow money aud execute notes, bonds,
mortgages, or deeds OF trust TO secure the
same, and TO exercise in respect OF all snch
| bonds mortgages. notes shares OF capital stock
and other secureties and obligations any and
all rights, powers and privileges of individual
owners thereof, including the right TO vote
upon any shares OF stock held by IL to the same
extent that a natural person might or could do;
and In general to do all things necessary to the
proper conduct Of the business OF this Corpora
/ tion in the Territory and elsewhere, not ncon.
sistent with the laws OF the United States and
the Territory of Arizona.
THIRD: The authorized amount OF capital
stock Of this Corporation shall be Five Million
dollars (s5,OO0OOO) divided into five million
shares of the par value OF one dollar CD each.
/ At such time the Board Of Directors may by
resolution direct, said capital stock shall be
| paid into this corporation either In cash or by
the sale and transfer 10 1t OF real or personal
property for the uses and purposes OF said Cor.
poration, in payment for which shares Of the
capital stock OF said Corporation may be issued,
and the capital stock so issued shall thereupOn
and thereby become and be fully paid up and
worcestershire, and in the absence Of actual
fraud in the transaction the judgment Of the
Directors as 20 the value OF the property pur-
chased shall be conclusive
FOURTH: The time Of the commencement OF
this Corporation shall be the date OF the filing
OF these Articles Of Incorporation in the office
of the Secretary of Arizona and the termina
tion thereof shall be twenty-five years there
after
FIFTH The affairs OF this Corporation shall
be conducted by Board OF seven Directors and
the following named shall conStitute the Board
OF Directors until their successors are elected:
J. Thompson Baker. Charles Keighley, Philip
p. Baker, Robert p. Wilson. ID. Harry Chan
dler. Benz f, Ladd, Jno. G. Jennings. There
after the Board OF Directors shall be elected
from among the stockholders as the Bylaws
OF the Corporation may provide.
SIXTH The highest amount Of indebted
ness or liability. direct or contingent to which
this Corporation is at any time subject shall be
One Hundred Thousand dollars (slOOOOO).
SEVENTH The private property Of the
stockholders OF this Corporation shall be ex
empt from corporate debt, OF any kind what
sOever.
In WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set
our hands and seals this first day OF March, 1902
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