The news-herald., 1903-07-18
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
The Chicago Mountain Mining and TVp-
nelinG Company.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS,
That we, the undersigned, DO hereby associate
ourselves together for the purpose Of forming
| Corporation under the laws of the Territory of
Arizona, and to that end do certify and de-
clare:
ARTICLE l.
wards, f. j. Greer and N. E. Stinson. and the
name OF the Corporation shall be The Chicago
Noun tain Mining and Tunnneling Company
The principal place OF business and registered
office of the Corporation IN Arizona shall be at
Phoenix, Arizona, and the Corporation may
have such other offices either within or with
out the Territory of Arizona as may be estab-
lished by the Board of Directors at which Off
ces meetings OF the Board OF Directors may be
held.
The general nature of the business proposed
to be transacted by this Corporation is as fol-
lows, to-wit: To purchase, lease, bond or other
wise acquire; own, exchange, sell or otherwise
dispose OF; pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and
deal in mines, mining claims, oil lands, oil, gas,
asphaltum, petroleum, water and water rights,
and to work the same; to do a general read
estate and mercantile business and, in general,
to do all things necessary to the proper conduct
of the business of the Corporation in the Terri
tory and elsewhere, not inconsistent with the
laws of the United States and the Territory OF
Arizona.
ARTICLE Ill
The authorized amount of capital stock of
this Corporation shall be one million FIVE hun
dred thousand dollars ($l 500,000), divided into
one million five hundred thousand shares of
the par value OF one dollars ($l0O) 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, ser
vices, or by the sale and transfer to it of real
personal property for the uses and purposes of
said Corporation, in payment Tor which shares
of the capital stock OF said Corporation may be
issued, and the capital stock SO issued shall
thereupon and thereby become and be fully
paid up and worcestershire, and in the absence
of actual fraud in the transaction, the ludg-
ment Of the Directors as to the value OF the
property purchased shall be conclusive.
ARTICLE ".
The time Of the commencement of this Cor
poration shall be the date of the filing of these
Articles of Incorporation in the Office of the
Auditor of Arizona, and the termination there
of shall be twenty-five years thereafter
ARTICLE V.
The affairs of this corporation shall be con-
Quoted by Board Of three Directors, and the
following named shall constitute the Board Of
Directors until their successors are elected:
g. 3. Edwards Z. j. Greer and NJ. E. Stinson.
The Board OF Directors shall be elected annu-
ally from among the stockholders on the first
Monday of August, 1904. The officers of said
Corporation, until their successors are elected,
shall be: S. B.. Edwards, President Z. J.
Greer, Vice-President; N. E, Stinson, Secretary;
NJ. E. StipsOn, Treasurer.
ARTICLE VI
c. H. Akers, q bona fde resident of Arizona
for over three years, is the agent of the Cor
poration, upon whom may be served all notices
and processes, including service OF summons.
ARTICLE VII.
| The highest amount of Indebtedness or lia-
| biIity direct or contingent, to which this Cor
poration is at any time subject shall be twenty
| FIVE thousand dollars G25,000), which amount
| does not exceed twothirds the amount of the
capital stock,
ARTICLE VIII.
The private property of the stockholders of
! this Corporation shall be exempt from its cor
| porate debts of any kind whatsoever.
| In Witness Whereof, We have hereunto set
our hands and seals this 10Th day of May 1908
| [Seall S. B. EDWARDS
| [Seall E. J. GREER,
| [Seall NJ. E. ST1NSON.
State of Colorado,
City and County of Denver. -
On this 10Th day of May, in the year 1903, be-
! fore me, Susie c. Mouat, notary public in and
| for the state and county aforesaid, residing
therein, duly commissioned and sworn, per-
sonally appeared s. B. Edwards e. j. Greer NJ
Z. StinsOn, known to me to be the persons de-
scribed in, whose names are subscribed to, and
| who executed the annexed instrument End
! they acknowledged to me that they executed
| the same for the purposes and considerations
| therein expressed.
| In witness Whereof have hereunto set my
| hand and affixed my official seal, at my Office,
10 the said state and county, the day and year
! last above written.
! [Seall SUSIE C. MOUATi
Notary Public
| Filed and recorded in conformity with law