The news-herald., 1902-11-01
ARTICLES OF Incorporation
of the
COLONIAL COPPER COMPANY.

hereby associate ourselves together 1or Tue
purpose of forming corporation unueF tue
laws of the Territory of Arizona. ana 10 'ha'
end make the following statement;
FIRST: The names of the incorporsloFs
are Ora E. Chaplin. William W. Gorham ana
Thaddeus S. Alice, and the name oil the corpoi
alton shall be The Colonial Copper Company.
The principal place in which the business VI
said corporation within the Territory OF AFl-
zOna is to be transacted Is at Phoenix, MATT
copa county. Arizona, and the principal place
of business OF said corporation outside ol lhe
Territory of Arizona shall be the City OF chi
cago in the State of Illinois, at which meet
ings of the Board of Directors may DE he4u A'lu
the corporation may haye such branch omceS
either within or without the Territory oil Ari-
IONA rs 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 make contracts, to purchase, lease Dond'
locate or otherwise acquire own, exchange,
sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage
hypothecate and deal i'll real estate and any
and all kinds of personal property, mlnes'
mining claims, oil lands, mineral lands, OIL
gas, asphaltum, petroleum. asbestos salt
water and water rights and machinery
and to work. mine explore. operate and de-
velop the same; to do a general real estate
manufacturing and mercantile business; to
own, handle and control letters patent and IN
Yentions and shares of capital stock of other
corporations; to borrow money and execute
notes. bonds, mortgages, or deeds of trust to Sc
cure the same and to exercise in respect to all
such bonds. mortgages, notes, shares OF capital
nh nfh nd
and all rights, powers and privileges OF indi-
Yidual owners thereof including the right to
vote upon any shares of stock held by it to the
some extent that natural person might or
could do; to construct, erect, build buy, sell,
operate dispose of bridges, waterworks,
Smeltets, cOncentrators, or other property, to
construct, erect, build, buy, sell, operate and
dispose of any railroad, tramway, turnpike or
canal, as may be necessary to lead from the
principal works or place of business OF the
corporation to any existing navigable stream
or any existing railroad, turnpike or public
highway; and to do all and every act and thing
necessary incident or pertaining to the lore
going Articles OF Incorporation; and in gener-
al to do all things necessary to the proper con-
duct of the business of this corporation i'll the
Territory and elsewhere, not inconsistent
with the laws of the United States and the Ter
ritory of Arizona.
THIRD: the authorized amount of the capt.
tai stock of this corporation shall be two mil
lion i've hundred thousand dOllarS-$2, SOC, 90
divided into two million five hundred thOus-
and, OO.OO0- shares OF the par value OF one
dollar-$1U0-each. At such time rs the Board
OF Directors may bp resolution direct said
capital stock shall be paid into this corpora
tion either in cash or by the sale and transfer
to II OF real and personal property for the uses
and purposes of said corporation, 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 be-
come and be fully paid up and non-asseSsn Bile,
and in the absence of actual fraud in the tran
sact!on the judgement of the directors rs TO
the value of the property purchased shall be
conclusive.
FOURTH: The time OF the commencement
of this corporation shall be the date of the fl
ing OF these articles of Incorporation in the
office Oi the Secretary of State of ARIZONA, and
the termination thereof shall be twenty five
years thereafter.
FIFTH: The affairs OF this corporation shall
be conducted by board OF Observation-Disclosures
and the following named shall constitute the
Board of Directors until their successors are e.
.. u.
A. Harter Arthur +. Woolsey Thaddeus 9. Al
lee, Ora +. Chaplin and William ". Gorham.
And the board of directors shall have power
to appoint an executive board of three--3-
members from their own number, whose acts
shall be binding upon the board of directors
and upon the company, and the following
named shall constitute the executive board un-
til their successors are elected: Eugene R.Will-
ri lra bA
Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be e.
lected from among the stockholders as the by
laws Ofthe corporation provide, and the exec
Utive board shall thereafter be elected by the
board of directors, as the bylaws of the corDo-
ration provide. The officers of said corpora
ton, until their successors are elected, shall
be: William W. GOrham, President; G. A. Har-
ter, Vice President; Eugene r. Willard, Secre-
tary; Ora Z. Chaplin, Treasurer. No director
member OF the executive board or officer of
the corporation need be d resident of the Ter
ritOry Of Arizona but may be a resident of any
state, territory or country. Meetings of the
shareholders or directors or the executive
board may be held and the records and books
of the corporation may be kept at the Office of
the corporation in the City of Chicago and
State of Illinois, or at any branch office of the
corporation either within or without the Ter
ritOry of Arizona as may be established by the
board of directors the executive board
SIXTH: Thh highest amount ofindebtcdness
or liability, direct or contingent, to which this
corporation is at any time subject, shall be fifty
thousand dollars-s50, OOO.O0-whch amount
does not exceed two thirds of the amount OF
the capital stock.
SEVENTH: The private property of the
stockholders of this corporation shall be ex
empt from corporate debts of any kind what
sOeVer.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hercuntC
set our hands and seals this sixth day of Sep
tember, A. d. 1902.
Ora E. Chaplin, [Scal
William W. Gorham, [Seal
Thaddeus s. Alice, tSeal
State of Illinois &C
County of Cook
On this sixth day of September, In the yea
9O2, before me. Gustav L. Beerly Notary Pub
n