Arizona silver belt., 1903-04-02
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
or the Arizona Hancock Consolidated Mining
 Company

| John D. Cuddihy, Henry l., Baer, Philip Carroll Louis H. Richardson, Frank c. Mayworm and Charles D. Hanchette all of Hancock, Hough ton county, Michigan.
 Second-The name of the corporation shal be the ARIZONA HANCOCK CONSOLIDA TED MINING COMPANY.
 Third - The principal place of business 1T which the business of said corporation, within the Territory of Arizona, is to be transacted is to be Globe, Gila county, Arizona and the principal place of business of said corporation outside Of the Territory Of Arizona shall be the Village of Hancock, County of Houghton State Of Michigan or such other place as the Board of Directors may, by resolution. direct
 Fourth-The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation | is as follows: To purchase, lease bond locate or otherwise acquire, hold, exchange sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge mortgage, hy. pothecate and deal in mines, mining claims or in lands, real estate interests in real estate | mineral lands, ores metals, oil gas, ,asphaltum petroleum, water and water rights and all kinds of timber and lumber and to work mines and explore and develop the same; to build | acquire lease and operate works for smelling and refining ores and metals to do a general | icai SstaIS anu HltTCanLlc DuSlHcSS to erect | and maintain boarding houses; to own, handle and control letters patent and inventions; to | borrow money and execute mortgages or deeds of trust to secure the same; to con. | struct and maintain water works rese rvolrs, dams, aqueducts, roads and roadways; to erect and maintain works, mllls, factories, sawmills, shops and other structures to engage in the business of treating, smelling and refining gold, silver, copper and other ores to manu- facture, buy, sell or deal in gold silver copper and other ores and metals and articles made wholly or in part Of the same i; to engage in he business Of purchase and sale or other dis position of stocks, bonds and other securities of this company or other companies to en- gage in the business Of selling and leasing Of power-electrlcal or compressed air; to en- gage in the electrical business and telept one, telegraph and electric lights to engage in the business of building acquiring leasing selling and disposing of tramroa ads and rail roads for use in connection with the mine and other properties of this company or Of other compani' s and, in general, to do all things necessary to the proper conduct of the busi- ness of this corporation in the Territory of Arizona, and the State of Michigan, not incon- sistent with the laws Of the United Stat $ and of the Territory of Arizona,
 Fifth - The authorized amount Of capital stock of this corporation shall be Five Hun dred Thousand Dollars $500 900 .O0l, divided in- to Fifty Thousand (5OOOV shares of the par value of Ten Dollars Csi00O) each. At such time as the Board of Directors shall, by reso- lution, direct said capital stock shall be paid in to this corporation, either in cash or by the sale and transfer to 1t of real or personal prop erty, for the uses and purposes of said corpor. atiOn; in payment for which, shares of capital stock of said corpora ton may be issued. and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non assessable.
 Sixth-The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles Of Association in the office of the County Record CT Of Gila county, Arizo- na, and certified copy thereof filed with the Auditor of the Territory Of Arizona; and the time of the termination thereof shall be twen. ty y-fiye C20 years thereafter.
 Seventh - The affairs of said corporation shall be conducted by board of nine @ di- rectors, who shall be elected annually by the stockholders of said corporation.
 Eighth-The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent, to which this corporation is at any time ubject shall be One Hundred Thousand Dollars (slOOOOO OO). The prlvate property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever
 IS WITNESS WHEREOF. We have hereunto set our hands and seals this 25tn day of Febru- ary, AID. 1908.
 JOHN D. CUDDIHY
 HENRY l.. BAER
 F. c. MAYWORM
 LOUIS II, RICHARDSON
 PHILIP CARROLL
 CHARLES D. HANCHETTE STATE OF MICHIGAN,
 County of Houghton. ss
 On this 26th day of February A. D 1903, be fore me, notary public, in and for the state and county aforesaid, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared John D. Cuddihy, Henry l.. Baer, Philip Car roll, Louis H. Richardson, Frank c. Mayworm and Charles D. Hanchette. whose names are subscribed to and who executed the annexed Instrument and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and considerations therein expressed
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have hereunto set lSEALI my nd and affixed my Ofiicial seal, at my office in the said state and county, the day and year last above written.
 FREDERICK M PENNISTON, Notary Public in and for Houghton Coun,y,
 Michigan
 TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, Gee
 County of Gila. (ss
 l, w. D. Fisk County Recorder in and for the Countyof Gila, Territory of Arizona. do