Arizona republican., 1903-03-18

| ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE
 THE ARCANUM MINING COME ANY. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE | PRESENTS. That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that
 end make the following statement: | FIRST. The names of the corporators ars: John F. Kidwell, Albert E. Froom, John B. Rodgers and Patrick B. Elan agan, and the name of the Corporation shall be The Arcanum Mining Compa- ny. The principal place in which the. business of said Corporation within tho | Territory of Arizona is to be transact | ed is Phoenix, Maricopa County. Arizo- na, and the principal place of business
 of said Corporation outside the Terri tory of Arizona shall be the City of Chicago in the State of Illinois, at which meetings of the Board of Direct ors may be held, and the Corporate
 may have such branch offices either
 with or without the Territory of Ari- Board of Directors.
 SECOND: The general nature of the
 business proposed to be transacted by
 this Corporation is as follows, to-wit: To make contracts; to purchase, lease. bond, locate or otherwise acquire, own,
 exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of.
 pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines. min | ing claims, oil lands. mineral lands. oil, gas, asphaltum, petroleum, asbestos, salt, water, and water rights and ma chinery, and to work, mine, explore, operate and develop the same: to do
 general real estate, manufa curing and mercantile business; to own, n,handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of capital stock of other corporations: to bond, mortgages, or and all rights, powers and privileges of deeds of trust to secure the same, and | to exercise in respect of all such bonds. mortg ges, notes shares of capital stock | and other securities and obligations any and all rights, powers nd privileges of | individual owners thereof, including l 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 all things nec- | essary to the proper conduct of the bus | mess of this Corporation in the Terri | tory 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 One Hundred and Fifty Thousand | Dollars (s15O, 100000 )divided into one | hundred and fifty thousand shares of | the par value of one dollar 1.00) each. | At such time as the Board of Directors
 may by resolution. direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this Corporate either in cash or by the sale and trans l fer to it of real or personal property for | the uses and purposes of said corpora l ton, in payment for which shares of l the capital stock Of said Corpora tion may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby be- | come and be fully paid up and non-as-
 sessable, and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of l the Directors as to the value of the
 property purchased shall be conclusive. | FOURTH: The time of the con-
 menccement of this Corporation shall he the date of the filing of these Arti- | c1es of Incorporation in the office of the
 Secretary of Arizona, and the terrnina- | tYon thereof shall be twenty-five years | thereafter.
 FIFTH: The affai6 of this Corpora tion shall be conducted by a Board of seven Directors and the following 1 named shall constitute the Board of Dl-
 rectors until their successors are elect ed: John r. I<idwell. Albert F. Froom John B. Rodgers, Patrick B. Flanagan | Ernest w. Pitt, Michael J. Murphy, and Daniel J. Gawne. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders as the bylaws of the Corporation may provide. The | officers of said corporation until their successors are elected shall be: Albert E. Broom, President; John B. Rodgers ice-President; Michael J. Murphy
 Secretary; John F. Kidwell, Treasurer
 SIXTH: The highest amount of in debtedness or liability, direct or con- tingent. to which this Corporation is al any time subject shall be Five Thous-
 and Dollars C5,OOO.OO), which amount does not exceed two-thirds the amount of the capital stock.
 SEVENTH: The private property
 of the stockholders of this corporation
 
 of any kind whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. We have
 hereunto set our hands and seals this fourth day of March, 1909.
 JOHN F. KIDWELL, (SeaI' | ALBERT E. FROOM, (Seal' II JOHN B. RODGERS (Seal' | PATRICK B. FLANAGAN, (Seal,
 State of Illinois
 County of Cook, ss.
 On this 4th day of February. in th'
 year 1903, before me, Henry M. Gold
 smith, a Notary Public in and for tht State and County aforesaid, residing
 therein, duly commissioned and sworn
 personally appeared John F. Kidwell
 Albert E. Broom, John B. Rodgers ant
 Patrick B. Flanagan, known to me tt