Arizona republican., 1903-02-15
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE DULUTH AND VIRGINIA GOLD MINING COMPANY.

MINING COMPANY.
 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, whose hands arc 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 are: Norman H. Murray. J. G. Harris and A. M. Morrison and the name Of the corporation shall be THE DULUTH & VIRGINIA GOLD MINING COM PANY. The principal place in which the business of said corporation within the Territory of Arizona is to be trans acted is Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona and the principal place Of business of said corporation outside the Territory of Arizona shall be the City of Duluth in the State of Minnesota, at which meetings of the Board of Di- rectors may be held, and the corpora ton 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 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, 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 develop the same; to do a general real estate, manufacturing and mercantile business; to own, handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of capital stock of other corpo- rations; to borrow money and execute notes, bonds, mortgages, or deeds of trust to secure the same, and to exer- else in respect of all such bonds, mort gageS, notes, shares of capital stock and other securities and obligations any and all rights, powers and privi- 1 leges of individual owners thereof, in- cluding 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 necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this corporation in the Ter ritory 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 Million Dollars (s1,OOO,OOO) di- vided into one million shares of the par value of one dollar ($1.0O each. 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 trans fer to it of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said corpora = | ton, in payment for which shares Of the capital stock of said corporation | may be issued, and the capital stock sC issued shall thereupon and thereby be- come and be fully paid up and no assessable, and in the absence of actua fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive Fourth: The time of the commence ment of this corporation shall be thf date of the filing of these articles o incorporation in the office of the Sec retary of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 Fifth: The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by a board of min; Directors and the following named shaI constitute the Board of Directors unti their successors are elected: Norma.
 H. Murray, J. G. Harris, A. NJ Mori. son, James Kelly, A. J. Murray, H. s
 Rockford, Andrew Bloom, F. J. Morri- son, Edward McVean. Thereafter tn,
 Board of Directors shall be elected
 from among the stockholders as the by
 laws of the corporation may provide
 The officers of said corporation unti
 their successors are elected shall be
 Norman H. Murray. President; Edwar, McVean. Vice President; J. G. Harris Secretary; Donald Morrison, Treasurer Sixth: The highest amount of in
 debtedness or liability. direct or contin gent. to which this corporation is a any time subject shall be One Hundre' Thousand Dollars (S10O,OO0), whic amount does not exceed two-thirds tn
 amount of the capital stock.
 Seventh: The private property of tn stockholders of this corporation shal be exempt from corporate debts of an , kind whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We hay { hereunto set our hands and seals thi , 12th day of January, 1903.
 NORMAN H. MURRAY. (Seal A. M. MORRISON, (Seal
 J. c. HARRIS. (Seal
 State of Minnesota,
 County of St. Louis, Ss.
 On this day of January, in tn year 1903 before me, Saide McLenan , Notary Public in and for the State an , County aforesaid. residing thereir
 duly commissioned and sworn, person
 ally appeared Norman H. Murray J. ( Harris and A. M. Morrison. known t
 me to be the persons described il
 whose names are subscribed to, an
 who executed the annexed instrumen
 and they acknowledged to me that the executed the same for the purposes an | considerations therein expressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hay - hercunto set my hand and affixed m :, official seal, at my office in the sai = State and County, the day and year las
 above written.
 (Notarial Seal) SAIDE McLENAN. , Notary Publi
 Nv commission expires 6-1S-19Oq