Mohave County miner., 1904-09-03
Arizona Mining and Explora-
 ton Company.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we the undersigned s. k. Gross. of Chicago, Illinois; E. B. Graham. of Chicago Illinois; K Roberts, of Chicago, Illinois, and Wm. G. Blakely, of Kingman Arizona. have this day voluntarily associated ours elves together for the pi ppropisions of Chapter TWO, Title % XII, % of the Revised Statutes of the Territory of Ari- zona and all amendments thereto, to transact scribed, and we do hereby adopt, publish and declare the following to be the Articles of In corporation of said company, to witt
 ARTICLE 1.
 The name of this corporation shall be ARI IONA MINING AND EVAPORATION COM The principal place in which the business of the corporation within the Territory of Ar- zona is to be transacted, is at Kingman in Mo have county and at the Company's mines in said Mohave county; and the principal place of business outside of the Territory of Arizona shall be the City of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, where meetings of the stockholders of offices may be established at such other places within the United States, or in foreign coun tries, as shall be designated by the Board of Directors or as the interests of the corporation shall hereafter demand.
 ARTICLE III.
 The general nature of the business for which this corporation is formed is as follows to-wit: (a) To purchase, lease. bond. locate and otherwise acquire mineral claims mineral lands. mines, mill-sites, and real estate in the Territory of Arizona. or in any other state or territory of the United States of America and to pay for the same in money. or in fully paid up shares of the company. or otherwise; and to sell lease bond or otherwise dispose of the same or any of them:
 (b) TO work, explore and operate mines and other property of this company, or of other companies or parties;
 (c) To own, operate and control reduction works and rehnerieS, smelterS, mills or other methods for the reduction, treating and hand. ling of ores and mineral products. and to buy, sell dispose and deal in ores, metals and min eral products and substances, either in man. ufactured state or otherwise:
 (d) To carry on the business of innxeepers. boarding houses, machine works and power plants, general merchandise and assaying: tu plat and lay out town-sites and sell town lots, and give mortgages one or more upon the same as security therefor, and to own electric and water power plants and to sell to consumers for domestic anc public purposes, water and light.
 (e) To construct, maintain. control and op- crate trails, rOadwayS, tramways, railroads. bridges. reservoirs. water courses. aqueducts, pipe lines. power lines, electrical works. tele- graph and telephone lines and warehouses, or any and all works and conveniences directly or indirectly conductive to any of the objects of the company or otherwise;
 (f) To acquire, manage farm and operate agricultural lands canals and irrigating ditcheS and to deal in the products of the same and any and all other personal property;
 (g) To locate, purchase or otherwise ac quire lands and lay out townsites and to build buy. sell. rent lease, own, operate. control anC manage property in any town or city;
 (h) To lend and borrow money, to buy. sell acquire and dispose of, and deal in corporate stock and secureties, or negotiable paper;
 D To borrow or raise money for any pur poses Of the cOmDanV and to naVmenI of the same with interest or for any other pur pose of the company to make, execute and de liver trust deeds and mortgages or to charge by undertaking, all or any part of the propert, of the company or it's uncalled capital stock and to create. issue, make, draw accept ant negotiate perpetual or redeemable debentures or debentnre, stocks DromisSory notes, bills O exchange, bills of lading, warrants, obligations and other negotiable and transferable instru ments;
 (j) To do and to perform any and all sue, other and further acts and things necessar, and proper to be done and per, ormed or as ma, be incidental or conductive to the attainmen of the above specified objects, or any of them
 ARTICLEIv.
 The capital stock of this corporation shal be One Million Five Hun6 red Thousand Dol lars, S1.500.0O000), divided into One Million Five Hundred Thousand Shares. of the pa value Of One Dollar (Sl.00) each; and said stoc may be paid for bv the tranSference to the sai corporation by good and sufficient deeds of cor veyance or properties, mine or mines. minin claim or mining claims. or by the transferenc of any other property. real or personal. to tn company, and said stock shall be fully paid II and shall be thereafter forever non assessable
 ARTICLEv.
 The time of commencement of this corpora tion shall be the date of the filino of theS Articles of Incorporation in the office of tn County Recorder of the County of Mohave Territory of Arizona, and the term of it's eS iStence thereafter shall be twenty five years but shall be renewed again for the period O twenty-five years when three-fourths of tn votes cast at any stockholders meeting. du called and held for that purpose shall be l. favor of such renewal.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The highest amount of indebtedness and lia blity to which this corporation shall at an time subject itself is limited to the sum of On Million Dollars (Sl ,OO0 0O0.00).
 ARTICLE VII.
 The private property of the officers an stockholders of this corporation shall be e1 empt from liability for the debts of this co, poratio or it's successor. No debts shall b contracted by said corporation, save and excer through and by the authority of the Board c Directors, or a majority of the stockholders and in accordance with the provisions of tn Bylaws to be adopted for the government c the affairs of this corporate n.
 ARTICLE VIII
 The business of the corporation shall be COT ducted managed and controlled by a board ( Five Directors who shall have authority elect a President. Vice President. Secretar and Treasurer from among their number: tn offices of Secretary and Treasurer may be hel by one and the same person. and said Director shall adopt said Bylaws which may proVid for an increase in the number of Directors an which Bylaws shall prescribe the duties an powers of such Board, the manner. times an places of the holding of elections of officer annual meetings, special meetings. stockhol CTS meetings, and shall specify and set fort the rules and regulations for the governm CT and management of the business affairs of sa corporation, the names of those who shall CO stitute the firSt Board of Directors. and the respective official positions, are as follows t