The oasis., 1904-02-06
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE CHICAGO AND PATAGONIA COPPER AND GOLD MINING COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed. do hereby associate ourselves together for the pnrpOse or forming corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and 10 that end make the following statcment
 l. The names of the corporators are: Joseph Korzeniewski, Edwin K Walker, Albert W. Brickwood, James C. Robinson, Andrew Winchester and Albert W. Brickwood, Jr and the name of the Corporation shall be The Chicago and Patagonia Copper and Gold Min ing Company. The principal place within the Territory of Arizona in which the business Of said corporation is tO be transacted is NOgales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. and the Corpora tions may establish branch offices either with in or without the Territory of Arizona where m etings of the Board of Directors may be held.
 II. The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this Corporation Is as follows, to-wit:
 To make contracts; to purchase, lease bond, locate or otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose Of, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of D rsonal property, mines, mining claims. oil lands, coal lands, mineral lands, oil gas, coal, shale. asphatum, pe- troeum, asbestos, salt, water and water rights and machinery, and to work mine, explore, operate and develop the same; and in general to do all things necessary tO the proper conduct of the business of this Corporation in the Territ tory and elsewhere, not inconsistent with the laws of the United states and the Territory of Arizona.
 
 of this Corporation shall be Two Hundred and Fiitv Thousand dollars sl50000) divided into Twenty Five Thousand shares Of the par value of Ten dollars 'Sl0.0J) each. At such times as the Board of Directors may by resolution driect, said capital stock shal be paid into this Corporation, either III cash or by the sale and transfer to it ol real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said Corporation in payment for which shares Of the capital stock of tAid Corporation may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non. assessable. and in the absence Oi actual fraud in the transaction the judgment Of the Direc- tors as Co the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 ". The time of the commencement Of this Corporation shall be the date of the filing of certified copy of these Articles of Inoorpora- ton according to law, and the termination thereof sha be twenty-five years thereafter.
 V. The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of nine Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: John T. BrickwOod, AdOlph HaSter- lick, Joseph s. Meyn Joseph Korzeniewski, Edwin K. Walker. Albert W. Brickwood Andrew Winchester, James c. Robinson, AL bert w. Brickwood, Jr Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be electe1 from among the stock kholders on the first day in July of each year The officers oi said Corporation until their successors are elected shal be: Albert W. BrickwoOd, President; Edwin K. Walker, Vice.President; Andrew Winchester, Secre tarv; Andr Winchester, Treasurer; Albert W. Brickwood, Jr., Assistant Secretary.
 VI The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent to which this Corporation is any tune subject shall be Twenty-Five Thousand dollars (S25, 0OOOO, which amount does not exceed two-thirds the amount of the capital stock.
 VII. The private property oi the stock holders of this Corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts of any kind whatsoeve-.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals thls 26th day of December, lq03