The news-herald., 1903-06-20
ARTICLES OF incorporation
OF THE
Oregon Tennessee Gold Mining Co.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS,
that we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do
hereby associate ourselves together for the
purpose of forming q corporation under the
laws of the Territory OF Arizona, and to
that end make the following statement:
First-The names of the corporators are: ].
L. Dickens, j. W. Howell, 2. f. Taylor, L. L.
Davidson, S. w. McCullor, A. B. Hamm, and
the name of the corporation shall be Oregon
Tennessee Gold Mining Company. The prin-
cipal place in which the business OF said cor
poration within the Territory of Arizona is to
be transacted is Phoenix, Maricopa county,
Arizona, and the principal place of business OF
said corporation outside the Territory OF Ari-
IONA shall be the city of Dyer, in the state of
Tennessee, at which meetings OF the Board OF
Directors may be held, and the corporation
may have such branch Offices either within or
without the Territory of Arizona as may be es-
tabished 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 con-
troll letters patent and inventions and shares
of capital stock of other corporations to bor-
row money and execute notes, bonds mort
CAGES or deeds of trust to secure the same, and
to exercise in respect of all such bonds, mort
cages notes, shares of capital stock and other
securities and obligations any and all rights
powers and privileges of individual owners
thereof, including the right to vote upon any
shares of stock held by it to the same extent
! that natural person might or could do; and
in general to do all things necessary to the
| proper conduct of the business Of this corpora
ton in the Territory and elsewhere, not in
consistent 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 C$1, ,0O0, ,O0O00), divided into one mil
lion shares of the par value of one dollar $100)
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 transfer to it of real or
personal property for the uses and purposes of
said corporation, in payment for which shares
| of the capital stock of said corporation may be
| issued, and the capital stock issued shall
| thereupon and thereby become and be fully
paid up and worcestershire, and in the absence
OF actual fraud in the transaction the iudg-
ment of the Directors as to the value of the
property purchased shall be conclusive.
Fourth-The time of the commencement of
this corporation shall be the date of the filing
of these Articles of Incorporation in the Office
of the Auditor Of Arizona, and the termina-
tion thereof shall be twenty-five years there
after.