The Arizona sentinel., 1902-01-01
ARTICLES OF lACORPORATlON. OF THE
 Golden Desert Mining Company.

l Know All Men by These Presents: That we whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose ot forming corporation under the laws of tho Territory of Arizona and to that end make tho l following statement:
 FIRST.
 The names of the corporators arc: O. A Pease, Samuel Shaw Parks, William R. Parks and the name of the corporation shall be The Golden Desert Mining Company. The principal place in which the business of said corporation within the Territory of Arizona is to be trans | acted is QuartZite, Yuma county, Arizona, and the principal place of business of said corporation outside the Territory of Arizo na shall be the city of Chicago, County of Cook | in the State of Illinois, at which meetings of the board of directors may be held, and the cor poration may have such branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona as 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-Wit:
 To purchase. lease, bond, locate, or otherwise acquire, own, ;hange. sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage hypothecate and deal in real estate, any and all kinds of personal property, mines, mining claims, oil lands, mineral lands, oil, gas, asphaltum, petroleum, water and water rights and machinery, and to work, mine, ex- plore, operate and develop the same; to do a general real estate, manufacturing and rner- camille business; to own, handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of cap ital stock Of other corporations; tobOrrow money and execute notes, mortgages or deeds of trust to secure the same, and to exercise in respect of all such bonds, mortgages, notes, shares of cap ital stock and other securities and obligations, any and all rights, powers and privileges of indi vidual owners thereof including the right to vote upon any shares of stock held by it to the same extent that a natural person might or could do; and in general to do al things necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this cor poration ill the Territory and elsewhere, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the Territory of Arizona.
 THIRD.
 The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be two million and five hundred thousand dollars (S2,500,0O0) divided into two million five hundred thousand shares of the par value of one dollar [sl.0O each The board of directors may by resolution divide the capital stock into common and pre- fcrred shares in such proportions and under such conditions as the directors may deem de. srable. At such time as the board of directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corporation either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said cor poratiOn, in payment for which shares of the capital stock of said corporation may be issued. and the capital stock so issued shall thercupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and nOn.assesSable, and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the di- rectorS as to the value of property purchased shall be conclusive.
 FOURTH.
 The time of the commencement of this l corporation shall be the date of tho filing of these articles of Incorporation in the office of the Secretary q, Arizona acG tLo .nrIrinct!sa