The Arizona sentinel., 1903-04-15
ARTICLES OF lNGORPORAIiOA.
OF THE Arizona Smelling, Mining and Transportation Company.
OF THE

W hose hands are neTeunto hillAeu' uO "CiCoS associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement: First-The names of the corporators gre:
 James Rice, of Los Angeles, California. Frank N Rust. of Los Angeles, California. | Edward H. Rust ofI4os Angeles, California. and the name of the corporation shall be The Arizona Smelling, Mining and Transporta- tion Company The principal place in which the business of said corporation within the Territory of Arizona is to be transacted is Yuma, Yuma county \ Arizona, and the principal place Of business of said corporption outside of the Territory of Arizona shall be the city ot LOS Angeles, State of California; at which place meetings of the board of directors may De held, and the corporation may have such branch offices, either within or without the Territory of Arizona as may be established by the board of directors.
 Second-That the general nature of the buSi- ness proposed to be transacted by this corpo- ration is as follows to-wit:
 The smelting, refining, sampling and rednc- tion of any and all ores; to purchase and sell any and all ores, fiuXes and bullion; 10 pur- chase, lease, bond, locate or otherwise ac- quire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dis pose of pledge, mortgage, hypothecate, ana deal In real estate and any and all kinds or personal property, mines mining claims, OH lands mineral lands, oil, gas, asphaltum, petroleum, water and water rights, and ma chincry and to work, mine, explore, operate. and develop the same; to do general real es- tate. manufacturing and mercantile business; to handle and control letters patent and in ventions and shares of capital stock of other corporations, to acquire by purchase, or in any lawful manner, and to possess, enjoy, operate and use, grants, franchises and con sessions from any territory or state oI the United States, or from any other state or country of the world, lands, steamships, steamship lines, railroads (Other than rail- roads in the territory of AriZona)' wagon roads. canals, mills, factories, houses, capital stock and bonds of corporations, public or private, chattels. goods, wares and mcr- chandise and chooses in action, and to buy and to own, control, deal In, sell or dispose of the same, or any part thereof, and to enter into contracts for the construction and opera ton of any such enterprise or corporation, 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 or capital stock, and other securities and obligations any and all rights powers and privileges oi ! individual owners thereof including the right to vote upon any shares of stock held by it, to the same extent that natural per son might or could do; and in general to do ; all things necessary to the proper conduct oi the business of this corporation in the terri ! tory of Arizona and elsewhere, not incon- sistent with the laws of the United States and the territory of Arizona.
 1 Third-The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be five million dollars (S5, 100000, divided into J0,0O shares of the par value of ten dollars (SlO) Der share 1 At such time as the board of directors may, by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corporation either in cash ol : by sale and transfer to it of real or personal property for the uses and purposes Of said corporation in payment for which, shares o | the capital stock of the said corporation may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and b' fully paid up and non-asseSSabls and in tho absence Of actual fraud in the transaction tho
 
 the property purchased shall bc conclusive. Fourth-Thc time of the commencement O this exploration shall be the date of the filing of those ..rticlcs of Incorporation in tht office of tho Secretary of Aritona, and thu termination thereof shall be twenty-five years (25l thereafter.
 Fifth-Thc affairs of this corporation shal be conducted by d board of five @ director for the first year, who shall be appointed b' the incorporators at its first meeting immed lately after incorporating, and the board SC appointed for the first year may increase Ii number to seven t7) directors, said board t hold this office until their successors ar elected.
 Thereafter the board of directors shall b elected from the stockholders as the laws O the corporation may provide
 | Sixth-Thc highest amount of indebtedness or liability direct or contingent to which thi corporation is at any time subject shall b one million two hundred fifty thousand dol lars (Sl, ,25O,000).
 Seventh-The private property of tn stockholders of this corporation shall be cN empt from corporation debts of any kin' whatsoever.
 In witness whereof, we have hcrcunto SC our hands and seals this 18th day of February <. ID. 1903
 JAMES RICE. tScal.I FRANK N. RUST, lSeal.I EDWARD H. RUST. tSeal.l ErArE OF CALIFoRNIA, lee
 County of Los Angeles, SS
 On this, 18th day of February, In the yea , one thousand nine hundred aud three, befor , me, S. P Nelson, q Notary Public in and fo : the State and county aforesaid, residing there in. duly commissioned and sworn, personall appeared James Rice, Frank x. Rust, Ed ward II. Rust, known to me to be the person described in. whose names arc subscribed [ and who executed the annexed instrument
 and they acknowledged to me that they ext I cuted the same for the purposes and consic $ crations therein expressed.
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set in I hand and affixed my official seal at my Offic !, in the said state and county, the day an ' year last above written.
 N. r. NELSON,
 (Signed.) Notary Public,
 tNotarial Seal.)
 In and for Los Angeles County, Californif
 My commission expires Jan. q, 1907.
 Recorded at request Of Isaac T. Stoddart
 at a. m., March 2 1903.
 C.P GROWN,