The Arizona sentinel., 1903-12-16
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE Queen Esther Mining and Milling Company.


 D. Thomson, James l.. Boyle, l.. D. Thomson. c. Nj, Boyle and J. A. Talbot. each and all of whom are citizens of the United States of America. do hereby associate ourselves togeth- CT for the purpose of forming q corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona in the United States of America. and by these presents do hereby form corporation under the laws of said Territory and for that purpose do hereby make. execute, adopt, sign and acknowl- edge these articles of incorporation.
 First: The name of this corporation is and shall be the Qneen Esther Mining and Milling Company.
 Second: The principal place for the transac- tion of business of this corporation shall be in the town of Yuma, in the county of Yuma. in the said Territory of Arizona; said corporation shall and may have and maintain offices in other parts of the United States of America, and in such other places as the board of direct ors of said corporation may determine, and the principal office of said corporation, outside of said Territory of Arizona. shall be in the city of Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, in the state of California.
 The business of said corporation may be car ried on in the said Territory of Arizona and in any and all of the other territories and states. and in the District of Columbia in the said United States of America: in the Dominion of Canada. in the republic of Mexico and else where as may be deemed best for the carrying on of the objects and purpose for which this corpo- ration is created.
 Third: The amount and sum of the capital stock is and shall be in the sum of One Million Dollars (sl.OOOOOO) divided into one million Q.OOO.OoO) shares of the par value of ono dollar (Sl.OO each.
 Said capital stock shall be full paid and non- asSeSSable and may be paid for in cash. prop erty, services, or any other equivalent and at such time and upon such conditions as may be ordered by the board of directors of said corpo- ration.
 Fourth The time of the commencement of | the existence of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these articles of incorpora- tion for record in the office of the Territorial Auditor of the said Territory of Arizona, and the termination of the existence of this corpo- ration shall be twenty-five years from and after said date, provided the directors and stock holders, or the directors or stockholders. may, if they see fit to do, before the expiration of said twenty-five years, renew the existence of said corporation from time to time for period not exceeding twenty-five years in any one re- newal.
 Fifth: The affairs and business of this cor poration shall be conducted and controlled by board of five directors, each and all of whom shall be stockholders in such corporation. Such directors shall be elected by the stockholders of this corporation at the annual meeting of the stockholders of said company; said annual meeting of said stockholders shall be held up on the first Tuesday in O :tober in each year at the hour of tes o'clock in the forenoon. And the persons who shall act as such directors until said annual meeting shall be and conSti- ute the board of directors of this corporation until such meeting is held until their sue cesSors are elected and qualified. are as follows the above named incorporators, to-wit: Henry D. Thomson,
 James l.. Boyle,
 T.. D. Thomson,
 c. NJ. Boyle,
 J. A. Talbot.
 Sixth: The officers of this corporation shall be and consist of president. vice-president, sec retary and treasurer and such other officers as the board of directors may see fit to elect or ap point. The aforesaid first mentioned four off cers shall be elected by the board of directors at all times, from among the said directors,
  ors at any annual meeting of the stockholders. And for the first year, or until the holding of said annual meeting, the directors shall elect said officers from among their number within thirty days after the filing of these articles of incorporation in the office of the said auditor of said Territory of Arizona.
 Seventh: The highest amount of indebted ness or liability to which this corporation is at any time to subject itself is in the sum of six hundred and sixty-Six thousand dollars (S666, OOO).
 Eighth: The private property of the stock holders of this corporation is and shall at all times be exempt from any and all corporate debt or debts of this corporation, and the stock holders thereof are and shall at all times be personally exempt from any and all liability for any debt or debts of this corporation,
 Ninth: The objects and purposes for which this corporation is created and organized, and the general nature of the business to be transacted and carried on by said corporation is to own, possess, buy, lease, and acquire by location or otherwise to sell, transfer, convey, lease incumber, or otherwise dispose of mines, mineral lands and mining property of every kind and nature whatsoever. both real and per sonal; water and water rights, both for power and domestic and mining purposes; easements, ditches, fumes. pipelines, tramways, and to work, develop and operate mines and mineral lands, to ship and treat ores, to buy and to sell the same; to erect, operate and maintain smelt- CTS stamp mills and any and all other plants for the reduction and treatment of ores and minerals and to buy and to sell bullion and the product of ores and minerals; to buy. sell lease, rent, have and possess mining, smelling and milling machinery and tools of every kind and description; to erect, maintain and operate power plants for the transmission of power by electricity or otherwise, for the operation of mines for smelling or milling, or other plants, and to have and to own the necessary other real estate in connection with the carrying on of the objects for which this corporation is formed, and to erect and to have and to own buildings of any and all kinds necessary to use in connec- ton with the mining, smelling and milling and for the successful carrying out of the objects and purposes for which this corporation is formed.
 To have and to own, acquire, buy and sell franchises and rights of way necessary for the carrying on of the purposes for which this cor pOration k created; to have and to own. Oper ate and maintain reservoirs for water, and wharveS, and to construct and operate and maintain railroads and the necessary appurten- ances therefor actually used in connection with the operation Of mines, smelters and reduction plants owned and operated by this company. To have. own, acquire and possess, buy, sell, lease and otherwise dispose of timber and tim Der lands and stone quarrics.
 This corporation may also sell it's own stock and buy and otherwise acquire or dispose of stock in other corporations and may pledge and hypothecate and incumber it's stock and any