The Arizona sentinel., 1902-05-07
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 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, J. O. Scannell, Geo. W. LaSher and O. P. Widaman. and the name of the corporation shall be the ily0 Gold COI2dny. 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 buSf- ness of said corporation outside of the Terri tory of Arizona shall De the City of Los An geieS, County Of Los Angeles, State of Cali fOTnia, and at which said last named place meetings of the Board of Directors of SuC h may have Sucn 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 OtherT ise dispose of, or pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in 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 Go 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, refineries for 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, reservoirs 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 i 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 i to exercise ia respect of all Sucn bonds. mort gages, notes, pie igeS, or other evidences of indebtedness, and any securities and Obliga- tions, and any and all rights, powers and privileges of individual owners thereof, in cludng the right to vote any shares of stock so held by it to the same extent that a nat ulal person might or could do; and in gen eral to do all things necessary and requisite to the proper conduct of the business of this 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.
 l The authorized capital stock of this corpOr- atiOn shall be Five Hundred Thousand Dol lars (S5C0,O00OO), divided into Fifty Million | (50,000.CUOJ shares of the par value of One l Cent Ic) each. Said capital stock shall be 1 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 i Directors may, by resolution, direct, author iZe and accept, and such payment, for which shares of The ca pitaI stock Of this corporation may be issued, and the capital stock so issued ! shall thereupOn and thereby become and te | fully paid up and nOn-assCsSable, and in the | absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment Of the directors as 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 1 the Secretary of the Territory Of Arizona, and the termination thereof shah be twenty 1 five years thereafter, with the privilege of a renewal of the said term for an additional pc- riOd of twenty-five years, should the corpora ton by proper resolution so decide.
 ARTICLE "
 1 The affairs of this corporation shall be con 1 ducted by board of five directors and the | following-named persons shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are | elected: VI. S. James, residing at Los AD- | geles, California; J. P. Flint, residing at Los Angeles, California; J. O. Scannel, residing at Los Angeles, California;; Geo. W. Lasher residing at Los Angeles California, and O. P. WidaHan, 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- vided by the Bylaws Of this corporation. ARTICLE VT.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or lia- bility, direct or contingent, to which this cor pOTatiOn is at any time subject shall be Three Hundred Thirty-thrce Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-two Dollars ($.}}33, ,}32. .O0). ARTICLE VII.
 The private property of the stock holders of this corporation Shal be exempt from cOrpOT- ate debts of any kind whatsoever.
 in witness whereof, We have hereuntO set onr hands and seals this 18th day of April, l12.
 W. $. JAMES LsEALl
 j. Q. SCANNELL SEAL O. r. WIDAMAN SEAL GEO. ". LASHER SEAL
 J. r. FLINT lSEALJ
 STATE OF CALIFORSIA, cS
 County of Los Angeles. ~
 On this 10th day of April in the year A. D. 1902. before me, J. Wiseman Macdonald, a