The Arizona sentinel., 1905-12-06
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Arizona Gold Dredger Company

ArllOnd 0OlQ DfedSef company
 Know all men by these presents, that we whose hands are he7eun:o affixed, do hereb. associate ourselves together for the purpos ot forming corporation under the laws of thu Territory Of Arizona, and to that end make tn, following statement
 First: The names of the corporators ar, Geo. R. Bentel, N. NJ. Edmond and A. J Ratelle and the name of the Corporation shal b The Arizona Gold Dredger Company, The principal place within the Territory Of Arizona in which the business Of said Corporation is tc be transacted is Yuma Yuma County, Arizona and the Corporation may establish branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona where meetings of the Board of Directors may be held.
 Second: The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this Corporation is as follows. to-wit: To erect and operate sampiing plants, smelters, mills, dredging or hydraulle plants. steam and electric railways lines, telephone and telegraph lines, to buy and sell the same to buy, sell and refine !ores and metals.
 To make contra cts: to purchase, lease, bond, locate or otherwise acquire own, exchange, sel or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property; mines, mining claims, oil lands, coal lands, mineral lands, oil, gas. coal shale asphaltum, petroleum, r:, oI 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 Territory and elsewhere, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the Territory of Ari- zona
 Third The authorized amount of capital stock Of this Corporation shall be one million and i've hundred thousand dollars (S1,59O.o00.OD divided into three hundred thousand shares Of the par value of five dollars (S5G0) each. At such times as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this Corporation. either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said Cor poration, in payments for which shares of the capital stock of said Corporation may be is sued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non -assessable and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Directors to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 u,1.o +of this Corporation shall be the date of the filing of certified copy of these Articles Of IneOr poration in the office of the auditor, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter
 Fifth: The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of five Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: Geo. R. Bentel, A., J. Ratelle, F. A. Meyer, W. A. Bowles and W. c. Tonkin. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders on. the second Monday in September of each year. Sixth: The highest amount of inde ebtedness or liability, direct or contingent to which this Corporation is at any time subject shall be fifty thousand dcllars (S5oOOo), which amount does not exceed two-thirds the amount Of capital stock.
 Seventh: The private property of the stock holders of this Corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts Of any kind whatsoever. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 18th day of November 1905.
 Geo. K. Bentel, (SeaD
 N. M. Edmond, (SeaD
 A. J. Ratelle (Seal( State Of California lee
 County of Los Angeles, ' On this 18th day of November 1905, before me, | A, D. Laughlin. a notary public in and for the | State and county aforssaid residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally ap- peared Geo. R. Bentel, N. M. Edmond and A. J. Ratelle, known to me to be the persons de- | Seribed in and Ehose names are subscribed | to and who executed the annexed instru ment, and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and consid- erations therein expressed.
 In witness whereof, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in said state and county the day and year last above written.
 A. D. Laughlin, ESeall Notary Public. My commission expires June 24, 1908, Territory of Arizona, e
 County of Yuma
 L J. M. Polhamus County Recorder in and | Tor the county of Yuma Territory of Arizona. 1o hereby certify that the within and foregoing | s true. full and correct copy of Articles of h. of the Arizona Gold Dredger Company. as filed for recerd in my office | on the 27th day of November, A. D. 1905, at S:l0 D. m., and as appears of record sin Book | , of Articles of Incorporation, page no, Records of Yuma county
 In witness whereof have hereunto set my na nd and affixed my seal of office this 27th day )f November, A. D. 1905.
 J. NJ PolhamuS, FSeal County Recorder Yuma County,
 Arizona,
 First pub December 6, 1905