The Arizona sentinel., 1905-12-20
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Arizona Gold Dredger Company

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 Know all men by these presents, that we whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereb associate ourselves together for the purpos of forming corporation under the laws of tn Territory of Arizona, and to that end make tn following statement:
 First: The names of the corporators ar Geo. R. Bentel, N. M. Edmond and A J Ratelle and the name of the Corporation shal be The Arizona Gold Dredger Company, Tn, principal place within the Territory of Arizon; in which the business of said Corporation is tC be transacted is Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona and the Corporation may establish brancf offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona where meetings of the Board o 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 sampling plants, smelters, mills, dredging oI hydraulic 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 contracts; to purchase, lease, bend, 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, olll lands, coal lands. mineral lands, oil gas, ,Gcoal, shale asphaltum, petroleum, 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 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 five hundred thousand dollars (S1, OOO.O0) divided into three hundred thousand shares of the par value of five dollars (S5.Oo) 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 porstion, 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 as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 Fourth; The time of the commencement of this Corporation shall be the date of the filing of a certified copy of these Articles of Incor- 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. 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 btedness orliability, direct or contingent, to which this Corporation is at any time subject shall be fifty thousand dollars (s5O0 000) 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. R. Bentel, (SeaD
 N. Nj. Edmond, (ScaD
 A. J. Ratelle, (Seal( State of California,
 County of Los Angeles 00
 On this 18th day of November 1905, before me- A, D. Laughlin. notary public in and for the State and county aforesaid, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally ap- peared Geo. R. Bentel IN. M Edmond and A. J. Ratelle, known to me to be the persons de- scribed in and whose names are subscribed to and who executed the annexed instru nent 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
  above written.
 4. D. Laughlin, sSealJ Notary Public. My commission expires June 24, 1908, Territory of Arizona ~
 County of Yuma 0' l. M Polhamus, County Recorder in and for the county of Yuma, Territory of Arizona. do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is true. full and correct copy of Articles of h. of the Arizona Gold Dredger Company, as filed for record in my office on the 27th day of November, A. D. 1905 at s:l0 p. m., and as appears of record .in Book of Articles of Incorporation, page 1l0 Records of Yuma county. In witness whereof have hereunto set my l hand and affixed my seal of office this 27th day | of November, A. D. 1905.
 J. Nj. PolhamuS ESeall County Recorder Yuma County
 Arizona, First pub December 6, 1905