The Arizona sentinel., 1905-11-22
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Tonopah Gold Butte Mining Company.

the undersigned. Wm. II. Fuller, Jno. Luck
 enbach and H. H. Cloud, all of the County o
 Los Angeles, State of California, have this day associated ourselves together for the pur
 pose of forming a corporation under the laws
 ofthe Territory of Arizona, and hereby adopt
 the following Articles of Incorporation.
 ARrICLEl, The name of this corporation
 shall be the ''Tonopah Gold Butte Mining
 Company" and its principal place of transact
 ing business shall be Yuma, Yuma County
 Territory of Arizona, with branch office at
 the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
 State of California, where meetings of the
 stockholders and of the Board of Directors
 may be duly held, and the business of the cor
 poration carried on in accordance with the
 laws of Arizona, with the same effect as if
 held, done or performed at Yuma, Arizona
 and with offices and agencies at Tonapah
 Nevada, and such other places as may be de
 signed by the Board of Directors of said cor
 poration
 ARTICLE 2. The nature of the business to be
 transacted by said corporation is to purchase,
 locate, acquire, lease, own, hold, control.
 mine, operate, or sell, transfer, or dispose of,
 mines mining property and mining rights;
 to purchase, acquire, own, hold, lease, control, operate, sell, transfer or dispose of, water,
 water rights, ores, bullion, minerals, metals, or oils; to manufacture, build, purchase. lease, acquire, own, control, operate or sell. mills, mill sites, colonization works, smelters, and all other mining machinery or appliances necessary thereto, and gas,- electric lights and power plants, and all patents. patent rights and licenses thereunto appertaining: 4c ;-o loo own or sell real and personal property of every kind and description, to manufacture, buy and sell all kinds of merchandise; to bor- row money; to issue and sell bonds secured by mortgage on any or all of it's corporate prop erty; to purchase, acquire; own, preempt, and sell its own stock and bonds and the stock of other corporations. and to do and perform all things necessary to transact the affairs and business of the corporation, within and with out the Territory of Arizona, requisite and proper for the purpose of carrying out all or any of the business therein specified.
 ARTICLES 3. The amount of the capital stock shall be the sum of one million (Sl GOO 600) dol lars, divided into one million q ,000,OO0 shares ofthe par value of one(Sl ,O0 dollar each which capital stock, when issued, must be fully paid in cash or property upon issuance of same, and shall be non-assessable for any purpose whatever, and the same shall be is sued at such times and upon-such conditions as may be prescribed by the Board Of Directors and said Directors are hereby authorized to issue any or all of said stock fully paid and on condition of the transfer to this corporation of property or rights in prop erty of any description which said corpora tion is hereby authorized to acquire, own and deal in and each certificate of stock shall state upon its face the number of shares rep resented thereby, and that the same is non- assessabe.
 ARTICLE4, The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of filing of these Articles of Incorporation for record in the office of the County Recorder of Yuma County, Territory of Arizona, and the period for which it is organized and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years after the date of said filing, unless the same be renewed pursuant to the laws of Arizona, before ter thereof
 ARTICLE5 The highest amount of indebt- edness or liability to which this corporation shall at any time subject itself shall be the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars
 ARTICLE 6. The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted and managed by Board of five Directors, who shall be stockholders in the corporation, and in said Board shall be vested the corporate power of the corpora ton. The names of the persons who are ap- pointed to serve as Directors for this corpora tion until the first annual election of officers and directors, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. are as follows: Wm H. Fuller, Director and President; G. G. Srak, Director and Vice President; Jno.Luck enbach. Director, Secretary and Treasurer; Geo. N. Fuller, Director and H. H. Cloud, Di- rector. The Directors of this corporation shall hereafter be elected by the stockholders at the annual meeting, which shall be held on the first Tuesday in October each year, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
 ARTICLE7. The officers of this corporation shall be President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer and such other officers and agents as the Board of Directors may deem necessary and may be created from time to time for the proper transaction of it's busi- ness; that until the first annual election of officers, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, the following named pc rsons shall constitute the officers and Di- rectorS, viz: Wm, H. Fuller, Director and President; G. G. Srak, Director and Vice. Jno. .Luckenbach, Director, Secretary and Treasurer: Geo. N. Fuller Director and H. II. Cloud, Director.
 ARTICLE &. The officers and Directors of this corporation shall hold office for the term of one year from their election, and until their successors are duly elected, unless a Di- Shal fn hp in which case, his office shall be declared vacant, and such vacancy filled for the uneXpired term by the remaining members of the Board of Directors, and which Board of Directors shall have the power to fiil said vacancy, or any other Vacancy, in the Board of Directors of said corporation.
 ARTICLE g. The private property of the of this corporation shall be cX- empt from all corporate debts and liabilities of every kind, and the stockholders of this corporation are hereby exempted from all lia- bility for any of the debts or liabilities of this 
 ARTICLE 10. The capital stock Of this cor poration shall be non-assessable, and each cer tificate thereof shall state on it's face the num- Der of shares represented thereby, and that the same is fully paid up and non-assesSable.
 ARTICLE II. The Board Of Directors shall have the power to borrow money for any pur pose for the corporation; and power to exc cute corporate notes or coupon bonds of the therefor; and to secure the pay ment of the same by mortgage ou the prop crty of the corporation, or in any other man. ner designated by law or by the bylaws 0f the corporation; and to do and perform all acts necessary in managing and carrying out the affairs and business of the corpor- ton.
 ARTICLE l2. The Board of Directors of the corporation shall have the power to pass by aws, and to make amendments thereto, and he said cOrDOration shall have nOwer to in-