The oasis., 1902-02-08
ARTICLES OF INCOR PoRATIoN
 OF THE Big Mountain Mining Co.

we, Prospero Sandoyal of NogaIes sonnra Mexico, Albert D. Shrewsbury, of Washington, D. c., lgnAcio Macmanus of Nogaless Arizona and A ibert Blester of Nogales Arizona. have thls day voluntarily associated ourselves toge- ther Tor the purpose of forming a Corporation uh9er tne laws oi the Territory of Arizona, hhu that we, whose names are hereinbefore written are the IncOrporators thereof and AS such we hereby certify;
 FIRST F;-rhat the name Of said Corporation IS: 'Blg Mountain Mining Company"
 SkCOND:-fhgt this corporation shall have perpetual succession and all other powers that are gwen to corporations by the law under ! "nlcn lt IS incorporated.
 ! THIRD.-That the objects for which said corporation Js formed and CT eated as lof- iows' to-wlt; For the purpose Of acquiring mines andmining prop critics, manufactures and other properties, real, personal and mixed, necessary, proper or convenient for the bus mess ot said Corporations; to mine ore, to reduce ore; to sink shafts and construct tun- neis; to acquire, by purchase, discovery, loc- alton or otherwise, mining claims, mining property of every kind and description, mills machinery, mill-sites, fumes and ditches con- nected herewith, and to work, mine, tunnel and develop mines mining and other property; to purchase, lease, construct and operate rall- roads, tramways, wire ways and turnpikes leading from it's mines, works or plants to existingrailr0ads, turnpikes or public high ways; to establish towns and t0wn-sitcs; to establish and conduct general merchandising business; to erect all buildings necessary or convenient in the industry Of mining as well as mills, machinery, fixtures and appliances of every kind and description to purchase mater lals for the proper working of mines; to own, purchase lease, build and operate when so owned, or otherwise, purchased, leased and built Smelting, refining, llxiyiaton, cyanide and all other Kinds of mills, buildings and works used In, about and in connection with the mining and working of ores of any kind to buy sell, mortgage or otherwise hypOthecate and lease any and all kinds of property; to pur- chaseand own the stock or shares and bonds or other Corporations, and to do and perform any and all other things incident to or con- neeted with the business aforesaid lawful to be done by said Corporation.
 FOURTH That the principal place for the transaction Ol the business Of this Corporation shall be Nogales, Arizona Territory, with a branch office at Ss Wall Street, New York City, and such other branch offices the Board of Directors may from time to time establish.
 FIFTH That the amount of the capital stock 0 this Corporation shall be Five Million (S).0W,o0D Dollars, divided into five hundred thousand (500-000) Shares of the par value of Ten (SlO) Dollars each; said stock shall be fully paid in at the time Of issuing the certificate thereof, and shall be non-assessable.
 SIXrH-fn at this Corporation shall com nsace it exestence on the twentythird day of December, A. D. 1901, and terminate on the seventy-second day of December, 1926.
 SEVENTH That the affairs of this Corpor- aton shall be conducted by Board of Direc- shall be elected by the stockholders at the an- nual meetings, and said Board shall have the power to fill all vacancies occurring therein.
 EIGHTH:-That the officers of this Corpor- alton shall be q President Vice-President Secretary and Treasurer who shall be elected by the Board Oi Directors. The President and Nice-President shall be members oi said Board, The Secretary and Treasurer may be chosen from among other persons as the Board may direct. NINTH That the highest amount of ndebt- edness and liability direct or contingent to which this Corporation shall be subject must in no case exceed the sum Oi Three | hundred Thousand (S5OO,000 Dollars.
 TENTH:-ThHt the private property of it's SfD lal he nj ifc porAte debts.
 ELEVENTH That the first annual meeting oi It's stockholders shall be held at Nogales, | Santa Cruz County, Territory of Arizona, on | the first Monday of December A. D. 1902, and | annual meetings shall be held thereafter at the | same place the first Monday of December of TWELFTH That until their first annual | meeting ane until their successors are elected the said Prospero Sandoval, Albert D. | Ignacio Macmanus and Albert 1 Biester, shall constitute its Board of Directors of whom
 Prospero Sandoval shall be President, Albert D. Shrewsbury, Vice-kresident. Ignacio Mac manus, Secretary, and Albert Biester, Ire asurer and they, the said Board, shall have the power at any time prior to the first annual meeting to elect from among the stockholders other members of the Board, provided the whole number of the Directors, shall at no time exceed seven.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF: We have hereunto set our hands and seals this 2lst day of December A. D. 1901.
 PROSPERO SANDOVAL. (SeaD
 ALBERT D. SHREWSBURY iSeaD
 IGNACIO MACMANUS. (SeaN
 A. BLISTER. lSeaN Signed and sealed in the presence of
 GEO. B. MARSH.
 EB. WILLIAMS TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
 County of Santa Cruz
 Before me, Eb Williams, a Notary Public, in and for the County of Santa Cruz Territory of Arizona, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn on this day personally appeared, Messrs Prospero Sandoval, Albert D. Shrews- bury, Ignacio Macmanus and Albert Bester, know to me to be the same persons whose names are signed to the foregoing ins- and severally acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purpose and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal of office this list day of December Nineteen Hundred and One. Q90l)
 [sEALl EB. WILLIAMS,
 Notary Public. My commission expires Feby. 2s 1904 Ten Cent U S. Revenue Stamp Cancelled. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, ss
 County of Santa Cruz. O.
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