Williams news., 1903-08-29
Articles of Incorporation Anita Copper Company

Know All Men By These Presents, That we who have signed and executed these articles of incorporation do hereby associate ourselves to- gether for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the territory of Arizona, and more especially rnder Title 13 chapter ?, Re vised Ntatutes of Arizona, 1901, and under and by virtue ot said incorporation taking and pos sesSlng all the rights, privileges and powers conferred by law on corporations.
 ARTICLE l.
 The name of this corporation shall be Anita Copper Company, and its principal office shall be in Williams, COconino County, Arizona, to- gether with office for the transaction of all business in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, and with offices in such other place or places as may hereafter be selected and adopted by the board of directors. The names of those forming this corporation are as follows: Paul W. Abbott A. \. White, A. II. Seabury and Henry l. Nes- mith.
 ARTICLE 9
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted, and the object and purpose for which this corporation is formed, are as fol- lows: To take all powers of an AriZoua body corporate, and to do any and all things herein set forth to the same extent as natural person might or could do, and more especially to con- duct business in any of the states, territories, colonies or dependencies of the United States in Mexico, and in any and all foreign countries, to have and to maintain the necessary offices therein, and to hold, purchase, mortgage and convey real and personal property without limit as to amount thereof, to acquire, pur- chase own, lease and sell real estate mines minerals and mineral rights, and to develop and operate the same; to conduct general mining milling, smelting and reduction busi- ness; to buy, sell, lease bond work mines, ores and bullion; to build and construct any branch lines of railroads or tram-roads upon the prop ert1eS o1 sad corporation, and to connect with established lines of railroads or public high ways, and to operate and maintain the same |; also to construct, operate and maintain all lines of telegraph and telephones needful in the operation of the mines smelters, reduction works or other properties of said corporation; sary dams, ditches, pipe lines, water towers reservoirs and any system of water-works con- nected herewith, with all necessary buildings machinery, equipment, pumps, and everything needful to construct and operate and maintain said system of water-works, and to buy, locate rent, lease, acquire, hold, own, use sell, rent and trade in water, water-power, water rights and priveleges; and to construct and own ditches tunnels fumes buildings machinery dams, canals and other works for the convey ance of water, either for the and operation of the property of this corporation or to GUS or furnished; to lay out, construct and acquire by purchase, or in any other legal manner, and use, franchise from any municipality or private corporation, wagon roads, canals, mills, facto- ries, houses, reduction plants, smelters, smelt- ing works, capital stock, bonds and notes of corporations, chattels, goods, wares and mer- chandise, choses in action, borrow and loan moneys, buy and sell, discount, hold and deal in all kinds of negotiable paper, stocks. bonds. municipal and other securities, gold, silver, copper, lead, and all other kinds of metals, other evidences of debt; to buy, manufacture install, operate, maintain, sell and deal in electricity ana electrical appliances, whether for lighting or motive power, and any other purpose for which electricity may be used also to hypothecate. mortgage or pledge all or any part of the property that this corporation now owns or may hereafter acquire, or any part thereof, for the purpose of securing the payment of any debt OF debts of this corpora- tion, with interest thereon, subject to the linn itations prescribed in these articles or by the territorial laws; also to build, acquire, con- struct own, operate lease, mortgage and ac- quire plants, machinery and appliances, pat ents and patent rights, for the extracting of metals of all kinds from their ores, and to ac- quire, take out, sell or otherwise dispose of patents or patent rights respecting appliances methods and processes of extracting metals from their ores.
 It is expressly provided that the foregoing shall be construed both as objects and powers 1t being hereby expressly provided that the foregoing enumeration of specific powers shall not be held to limit restrict in any manner the powers of this corporation.
 ARTICLE 8.
 The amount of capital stock hereby author- 1Zed shall be Five Million ($5.000,000) Dollars divided into one million OOO, ,OO0) shares of the par value of Five ($5.00) Dollars each, all of which shall be issued fully paid and non-assess- able, and shall be paid for at the time of issue at such times and upon such conditions as may be provided by the board of directors, and said directors are hereby authorized to issue any part or all thereof, fully paid and non-asses--