Arizona republican., 1903-01-01
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE FIDELITY MINING COMPANY

Know All Men by These Presents, That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming corporation under the laws of the ter ritOry Of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement:
 First: The names of the cOrpOrators are: George P. Smith, Alvah K. Pot ter, Timothy E. Ellsworth, Augustus J. Hathaway. Leonard H. GrOesbeck, Edward H. O'Hara, Clarence NJ. How ard. and the name of the corporation shall be the Fidelity Mining Company. The principal place in which the busi- ness of said corporation within the Ter ritory of Arizona is to be transacted is Phoenix, Maricopa county, Arizona, and the principal place of business of said corporation outside the Territory of Arizona shall be the City of Buffalo, in the State of New York, 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 established by the board of di- rectors.
 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 ac- quire, own. exchange, sell or other wise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hy- pothecate 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 .E,i md ly O plore, operate and develop the same; to do a general real estate, manufact- uring and mercantile business; to own, handle and control letters patent and inventions, and shares of capital stock of other corpora tions; to borrow money and execute notes, bonds, mortgages, or deeds of trust to secure the same, and to exercise in respect Of all such bonds, mortgages, notes, shares of cap ital stock and other securities and ob- legations 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 a natural person might or could do; and in general to do all things necessary to the proper con duct of the business of this corporation 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 five million dollars (s5,OOO, OOO.OO), di- vided into five million shares of the par value of ore dollar (S1.00) each. At such time as the board of directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corporal tion either in cash or by the sale and trans fer to it of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said cor pOratiOn, in payment for 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 non- assessable and judgment of the direc- tors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 Fourth: The time of the commence ment of this corporatiOns shall be the date of the filing of these articles of incorporation in the office of the sec retaFy of Arizona, and the terminatio thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 Fifth: The affairs O: this corpora ton shall be conducted by a board Of seven @ directors, and the following named shall constitute the board of di- Tectors until their successors are elected: George P. Smith. Alvah K. Potter. Timothy E. Ellsworth. Angus tus J. Hathaway, Leonard H. Groes- beck, Edward H. O'Hara, Clarence M. Howard.
 Thereafter the board of directors shall be elected from among the etock- holders as the bylaws Of the corpor-