Bisbee daily review., 1902-08-01
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 or EMPIRE SMELr,Ni COMPANY.

EMPIRE sMELr,Ni COMPANY.
 We. the undersigned. A. M. Franklin C. E. Bell, w. F.. Francis, Hartwell Novel; and R. B Parsons do hereoy voluntarily associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming corporation under and by virtue of the laws of the Territory of Arizona. and we do here by adopt and certify the following Articles of Incorporation. to-wit:
 Article 1. The name of this corpc ration shall be Empire Smelling Company, and its principal place of business shal be at Benson, in the cHul;y of Cochise, Territory of Ari- sona; but the corporation purposes carrying on business outside of as we'll as within the said Territory of Arizona, and to maintain an office or ofices in the city and county of San Francisco, state of California, at which said last named place meetings of directors and stockholders may be held.
 Article II. The purposes for which this corporation is formed are:
 l. To purchase, locate, patent, lease. rent and otherwise acquire, to own, hold, develop, work, operate. and mine. and to sell, to lease, rent ana otherwise dispose of mines, mining claims, mining and mineral rights, pia cer claims, mill sites, oil wells ana lands, and other real estate and prop erty. and also rights, titles, interests and estates in and to any and all or the properties herein specified:
 2. To mine, extract, purchase, and otherwise acquire, to hold, own, work, sell. trade, exchange and otherwise dispose of, and to concentrate smeit' reduce, refine and otherwise treat' both for itslf and for other persons and corporations, gold, silver, piati- mum, copper, iron, nickel, quicksiiVer, aluminium, antimony, asbestos ana other ores and mineral products, pc troleum, paraffine, asphaltum and otn- CT hydro-carbon substances;
 8. To purchase, erect, build, con struct, lease, rent and otnerwlse .couire to own, hold manage onerate and run, both TOT irself and for other persons ana corporations, and to sell, lease rent and otherwise dispose of concen' trators. smelters, converters, cynaioe nlants. stamp mills, refneries, reouc' tion works, and any and all otnei kinds and classes of buildings, ma chinery and appliances for mining concentrating, smelting, converting cyaniding, refining, reducing and otn erwfse treating ores, minerals, con cantrates. mates, oils, and other mn er,l and dro-oarbon substances and materials; ,s
 4. To purcahses. lease, rent ouiio construct, erct and otherwise acqui.e to hold, own, manage, and operate, iU, mining purposes and both TOT ltsen and for other persons and corpo.e tions. and to sell, lease, rent and dis nose of rights of way. franchises, rail roads and railways, trans and tram ways. trolley and cable lines, dltcnes and fumes, pipes and pipelines, en zines. cars. boats, elevators and cnutef and any and all other proprties, rignts machinery and appliances for hauiage and transportation. ..,
 s. To purchase, lease. rent deVei op and otherwise acquire, 10 own hold. pump, Hume and pipe ana !. cell lease. rent and otherwise olsposs of water and water r1gnts.
 6. To purchase, lease, rent eree. h,;,d construct and otherwise acquire to own hold, manage, and operate hoth for i.self and for other persons end corporations, and to sell, lease rent ana otherwise dispose Of steam nIants electric plants, gas plants wa fer plants, and others pulioihs, a chinery and appliances TOT tne een. ation and manufacture or power an. to sell. lease, rent and otner"ise uis nose of elctricity and gas TOT po"e' and othr purposes.
 ID purchase, lease. rent and otherwise acquire, to hold ana oM snd to sell. lease, rent and otherwls' a,snoee of timbr lands and tlmper "a nnrcbase. lease, rent build, erect oonstruct and otherwise acquire, U own hold. manage and operate, ana '' sar lease rent and otherwise dispose of saw mills and blaming mills
 To purchase and otherwise ac
 ,,;ra tn hold and own, and to seh trade exchange and otherwise us nose of and deal in shares or stoch honds and mortgages of other corpora tions. . hr,,a
 To purchase, lease, rent ouiio
 ,e.t construct and otherwise acquire to own. hold, manage and operate an in sell, lease, rent and otherwise als nose of stores, storehouses, warehous es and other buildings, and 10 pul chase buy. sell, barter and exchange eaneraJ merchandise, mining macnin ~ and appliances, tools and impls ments, and any and all other ann,aes articles .ns conduct and operation of the nr.iness and affairs of this corpora don; and.
 m Tn addition to the expresseo powers herein menuoneo' en