Arizona republican., 1902-09-01

place of transacting business at Phoe- nix, Arizona, with a branch office in Boise, Idaho, New York City, St. Louis, Mo-, Chicago, H., and such other places as the corporation may desire. 2. The business of said corporal ton shall be to purchase, lease, bond or otherwise acquire: own, exchange sell or otherwise dispose of; pledge, mort gage, hypothecate and deal in mines, mining claims, oil lands, oil gas. lasphaltum, petroleum, water and water rights and to work the same; to do general real es- tate and mercantile business, and in general to do all things necessary for the propor conduct of the business of the corporation in the territory and elsewhere, not incosistent with the laws of the United States and the Territory of Arizona.
 3. The capital stock of said corpora tion shall be three million dollars ($3,- 000,000), divided into three million shares of the par value of one dollar ($1.0O) each, which stock shall be is sued. paid up and non-assessa ble, in exchange for cash, services or prop erty.
 4. The business of said corporation shall be conducted by a board of five (5) directors, who shall be elected an- nually by the stockholders of this cor poration.
 ,. The corporation shall commence business on the date these articles are filed in the office of the secretary Of Arizona, and shall terminate twenty five years thereafter.
 6. The highest amount of indebted ness. direct or contingent. to which this corporation shall subject itself at any time is five hundred thousand dollars ($5OO OO0).
 :. Private property of stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from its corporate debts.
 8. That Isaac T. Stoddard. a resi- dent of Phoenix, Arizona, for years last past is the agent of this company, upon whom all notices and processes. including all services of summons, may be served.
 In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our hands this 16th day of August 1902.
 H. L. HOLLISTER,
 w. M. LUCAS,
 F. c. RUTAN,
 JOHN D. CAMERON, State of Idaho,
 County of Ada, ss.
 On this 16th day of August, 1902, be- fore me, H. w. Dunton, notary public in and for the county aforesaid. per sonally appeared H. l.. Hollister, w. M. Lucas, F. C. Rutan and John D. Cam eron, known to me to be the persons described in. whose names are sub scribed to, and who executed the an- nexed instrument, and they acknowl- edged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and cOnsidera- tions therein expressed.
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year last above writ ten.
 CNotarial Seal) H. w. DUNTON,
 Notary Public. Territory of Arizona,
 County of Maricopa, ss.
 I, B. F. McFall, county recorder in and for the county and territory afore- said, hereby certify that l have com pared the foregoing copy with the or iginal articles of incorporation of the Big Creek Gold Mining Company" filed and recorded in my office on the 2lst day of August, 1902, in Book No. Il of Interpretations at page -, and that the same is full, true and correct copy of such original and of the whole thereof.
 Witness my hand and seal of office this Fist day of August, 1902
 (Seal) B. F. McFALL,
 County Recorder. By A. s. ARTHUR, Deputy.
 Filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of the Territory of Ari- zona this 21st day of August A. D., 1902, a ? p. m.
 ISAAC T. STODDARD,
 Secretary of Arizona. First publication August 27 1902