Mohave County miner., 1904-09-10
Articles of Incorporation
Arizona Mining and Explora-
 ton Company.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we, the undersigned, $. E. Gross. of Chicago, T. E. D. Bradley, of Chicago Illinois: Jesse E. Roberts, of Chicago, Illinois, and Wm G. Blakely, of kingman, Arizona, have this day voluntarily associated ours elves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the provisions of Chapter Two Title XIII, of the Revised Statutes of the Territory of Ari- zona. and all amendments thereto, to transact the business hereinafter mentioned and de. scribed and we do hereby adopt. publish and declare the following to be the Articles of In, corporation of said company, to wit:
 ARTICLE 1.
 The name of this corporation shall be ARI, IONA MINING AND EVAPORATION COM PANY.
 The principal place in which the business of the corporation within the Territory of Ari- zona is to be transacted is at Kingman, in Mo, 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 the Board of Directors may be held and branch 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 or 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 reinerieS. 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. era products and substances. either in a man. ufactured state or otherwise;
 (d) To carry on the business of inn-keepers boarding houSes machine works and power plants, general merchandise and asSaying: to 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, OI any and all works and cOuveniences 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 and 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;
 GD To borrow or raise money for any pur poses of the company. and to secure paymen, of the same with interest or for any other pur pose ot the company to make execute and de liver trust deeds and mortgages, or to charge by undertaking. all or any part of the property of the company or it's uncalled capital stock and to create, issue, make, draw. accept ant negotiate perpetual or redeemable debentures or debenture stocks, promissory notes bills O exchange, bills of lading, warrants, obligations and other negotiable and transferable inStru mentS
 (D To do and to perform any and all sucl other and further acts and things neceSSar, and proper to be done and peri ormed or as ma, be incidental or conductive to the attainmen or the aoove specified objects, or any of them
 ARTICLE ".
 The capital stock of this corporation shal be One Million Five HunGred Thousand Dol lars, (Sl O0OO), divided ino One Million Five Hundred Thousand Shares, of the pa value Of One Dollar. (Sl.O0) each: and aid stOcl may be paid for bv the tranSference to the Sa corporation by good and sufficient deeds of con veyance or properties, mine or mines. minin
 
 Of any other property. real or personal. to tn company and said stock shall be fully paid u and shall be thereafter forever non assessable
 ARTICLEV.
 The time of commencement of this corpora tiOn shall be the date of the filing of theS Articles of Incorporation in the office of tn County Recorder of the County of MohaVt Territory of Arizona, and the term of its es istence thereafter shall be twenty five years but shall be renewed again for the period c twenty-five wears when three-fourths of tn votes cast at stockholders mpptinp 6ut called and held for that purpose, shall be i favor of such renewal.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The highest amount of indebtedness and lif bility to which this corporation shall at an time subject itself is limited to the sum of On Million Dollars (sl .oOO0OO.o0).
 ARTICLE VII.
 The private property of the officers an stockholders of this corporation shall be @, empt from liability for the debts of this co poratio or it's successor. No debts shall contracted by said corporation. save and excer through and by the authority of the Board Directors, or majority of the Stockholder. and in accordance with the provisions of tn Bylaws to be adopted for the government the affairs of this corporate h.
 ARTICLE VIII
 The business of the corporation shall be COT ducted managed and controlled by board Five Directors who shall have authority elect President. Vice-President. Secretar and Treasurer from amOno 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 provi6 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 er's meetings, and shall specify and set fort the rules and regulations for the governmel and management of the business affairs of sal corporation. the names of those who shall CO Stitute the first Board of Directors, and the respective official positions, are as follows t wit.