The border vidette., 1903-06-20
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE TRI-METALLIC MINING, SIMPLIFYING AND REFINING COMPANY.

KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we, whose names are herenntO affixed, To hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the following statements:
 FIRST-The names of the corporators are J, l.. Sheperd, James McCallum and N. K. Staley, of Nogales, Arizona, Prospero Sando oval of Nogales. Sonora, Mexico, and NJ K. Gantz of Troy, Ohio, and the name of the corporation shall be THE TRI-METALIIC MIN ING, SIMPLIFYING AND REFINING COMPANY. The principal place in which the business of said corporation shall be transacted within the Territory of Arizona shall be Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, with branch offices at such places in the United States and the Republic of Mexico, as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, at any of which places all meetings Of the stock-holders and Board of Direc- tors may be held, and all business transacted,
 SECOND The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows, to wit:
 To purchase, lease, bond, locate or otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, m ort- gage, hypothecate, and deal in mines, mining claims, oil lands, mineral lands. oil, gas, asphaltum, petroleum, Water and water rights, and to work, mine, explore and develope the same; to do a general real estate and mercantile business; to own, handle and control letters patent and inventions; to borrow money and execute mortgages or deeds of trust to secure the same: to build and own dams, canals, fumes, ditches and other means as may be necessary to divert, inpOund or conduct water, and to use the same for irrigation, and to generate power to be used as such, or to be con verted into electricity or electrIc power as may be desired. and to use, sell, rent or otherwise dispose of the Same; to build, construct or otherwise provide lines for the transmission of electricity or electric power, and to equip the same; to build, own, equip and operate railway, telegraph and Jele- phone lines fro ID it's mines and works to a connection with other lines; to buy, own, hold and dispose Of the stock or bonds of other corporations, and in general to do all things necessary to properly conduct the business of this corporation in the Territory of Arizona and elsewhere, not inconsistent with the laws of the Territory of Arizona and the United States.
 THIRD The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be Ten Million (SI0, 900, GOO O0) Dollars, divided into One Million Shares of the par value of Ten LSl0.00.] Dollars each At such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corpor- ation, either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real and personal prop erty for the uses and purposes of said corporation, in payment for which shares of the capital stock of said cor poration may be issued, and ali of the capital stock issued by the company shall be fully paid up and non- assess able.
 FoURTH-The time of the commence ment of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the Auditor of the Territory of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.