Arizona republican., 1903-01-22
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE THE SYLVANIA MINING COMPANY

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 corpora tors are: HUBERT A. SHANKS, MARION D. MERRICK, JOHN J. GEGHAN and ALLEN SMALLEY, and the name of the corporation shall be THE SYLVANIA 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 Harrison, Boone County, in the State of Arkansas, 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- tablished 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.
 
 O., pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines, min- ing claims, oil lands, mineral lands, oil, gas, asphaltum, petroleum, asbestos. salt. water and water rights and ma chinery, and to work, mine, explore. operate and develop the same; to do general real estate, manufacturing and fn and control letters patent and inven- tions and shares of capital stock of other corporations; 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 capital stock and other securities and obliga- tions 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 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 Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand dollars ($250 O00.O0) divided into Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand shares Of the par value of One Dollar (s1.00) each. At such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corpora ton either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real or personal prop erty for the uses and purposes of said corporation, in payment for which shares of the capital stock of said cor poration may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non-assessable, and in the absence of actual 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 com mencement of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the Secretary of Arizona, and the termi- nation thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 FIFTH: The affairs of this corpo- ation shall be conducted by Board of Four Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected:
 Hubert A. Shanks, Marion D. Mer- rick, John J. Geghan and Aller Smalley.
 Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stock holders as the bylaws of the corpora he of a corporation until their successors are elected shall be:
 Allen Smalley, President; Marion D. Merrick. Vice-President; John J. Geghan. Secretary; Hubert A. Shanks, Treasurer.
 SIXTH: The highest amount of in- debtedness or liability, direct or contin- gent, to which this corporation is at any time subject shall be One Hundred and Sixty-six Thousand dollars (s166.- O00OO, which amount does not exceed thirds the amount of the capital stock.
 SEVENTH: The private property of the stockholders Of this corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have
  31st day of October, 1902.
 ALLEN SMALLEY. (SeaD
 MARION D. MERRICK. (SeaD
 JOHN J. GEGHAN. (SeaD
 HUBERT A. SHANKS. (SeaD State of Ohio.
 County of Lucas, ss.
 On this 31st day of October. in the year -, before me, Jonathan A. Price, a Notary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid. residing therein. duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Allen Smalley, Hubert A. Shanks. Marion D. Merrick and John J. Geghan, known to me to be the persons described in, whose names are subscribed to. and who exc cuted the annexed instrument, and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and considerations therein expressed.