The border vidette., 1903-12-19
ARTICLES OF 1NCORPORATION
 OF THE VICTOR MINING COMPANY.

THE VICTOR MINING COMPANY.
 KNOW ALI MEN BY THESE PRES ENTS: That we, whose names are here unto affixed, do hereby associate our selves together for the purpose of form ing a corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona and to that end make the following statements:
 FiRST-The names of the corporators are Frank P. Jackson, Hollis P. Bunker, Lewis J Haas. George S. Hail, John P. Force and Edwin F. Wood, and the name of the corporation shall be THE VICTOR MINING COMPANY. The principal place in which the business of said corporation shall be transacted within the Territory of Arizona shall be Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, with branch offices at such places in the United States and the Republic of Mexico, as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, at any of which places all meetings of the stockholders and Board of Directors may be held, and all business transacted.
 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, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mort gage, hypothecate, and deal in mines, mining claims, oil lands, mineral lands. oil, gas. asphaltum, petroleum, water and water rights, and to work mine, explore and develop the same; to do general real estate and mercantile busi- ness; to own, handle and control letters patents and inventions; to borrow money and execute mortgages or deeds of trust to secure the same; to build and own dams, canals, ditches, fumes and other means as may be necessary to divert, impOund or conduct water, and to use the same for irrigation, and to generate power to be used as such, or to be converted into electricity or electric power as may be desired, and to use, sell, rent or otherwise dispose of the same; to build, construct or otherwise provide lines for the trans mission of electricity or electric power, and to equip the same; to build, own, equip and operate railway. telegraph and telephone lines from its mines and works to 8 connection with other lines; to buy, own, hold and dispose of the stock or bonds of other corporations, and in general to do all things necess- ary to properly conduct the business of this corporation in the Territory of Arizona and elsewhere, not inconsist- ent with the laws of the Territory of Arizona and the United States.
 THIRD-The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be One Million ts1 1,0O0. 900. 0O) Dollars, divided into One Hundred Thousand shares of the par value of Ten ts1O. .00)
 
 Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corporation, either 1n cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real and personal property for the uses and purposes of said corporation, in pay ment for which shares of the capital stock of said corporation may be issued, and all of the capital stock issued by the company shall be fully paid up and non -aSSeSSable-
 FoURTE-The time of the commence ment of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the Auditor of the Territory of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 FIFTH-The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by Board of five | or more Directors, who shall be elected | annually by the stockholders of the | corporation. Until the first annual | meeting the following persons shall l constitute the Board of Directors: | Louis J. Haas, George $. Hail, John P. Force and Edwin F. Wood, and the | following persons are hereby constitut ed and appointed officers until the first annual meeting, and until their success Ors are elected and qualified: Hollis P. Bunker, president, Lewis J. Haas, vice. president, Frank P. Jackson, secretary. and Edwin F. Wood, treasurer.
 The stockholders representing a ma jority of outstanding stock shall have full power to adopt such bylaws for the government of this corporation as to them may seem proper.
 SIXTH-The highest amount of in debtedness or liability. direct or con tingent, to which this corporation is at any time subject, shall be Two Hundred Thousand (S2OO. 900 OO) dollars.
 SEvENTH-The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever.
 EIGHTH meetings of the stock holders shall be held at the City of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, on the second Monday in January in each and every year for the purpose of directors and for such other purposes as may be necessary and pro- per.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have hereunto set our hands and seals this 23rd day of November. A. D., 1903.
 FRANK P. JACKSON
 HOLLIS P. BUNKER
 l.. J. HAAS
 GEORGE s. HAIL
 JOHN P. FORGE
 EDWIN F. WOOD.
 Signed and sealed in presence of: Ada E. Jones, Chas A. Beard.
 State of Ohio, lss