The news-herald., 1903-05-30
ARTICLES OF Incorporation
OF THE
Ore 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: j.
L. Dickens, J. W. Howell z. F. Taylor, i. 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-
zona 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
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, 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 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 ($1, ,OO0, 100000, divided into one mil
lion shares of the par value Of one dollar ($1 00)
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 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 judg-
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-
ton thereof shall be twenty-five years there
after.