The Arizona sentinel., 1905-11-29
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE TOnopah Gold Butte Mining Company

Tonopah Gold Butte Mining Company.
 Know all men by these presents, that we, ! the undersigned Wm. H. Fuller, Jno. Luck enbach and H. H. Cloud, all of the County of l Los Angeles. State of California, have this day associated ourselves together for the pur- | nose of forming a corporation under the laws ofthe Territory of Arizona, and hereby adopt the following Articles of Incorporation.
 ARrrCLEl, The name of this corporation shall be the ''Tonopah Gold Butte Mining Company" and it's 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 II 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
 ARTICLE2 9 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; l 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 chlorination 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: to refine ores; to purchase, to acquire. lease, 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 it's 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. I ARTICLES The amount of the capital stock shall be the sum of one million (sl ,O0O,6G0) dol lars, divided into one million Q,OOO,OOU shares ofthe par value of one(Sl ,00) dollar each which capital stock, when issued, must be fully paid in cash or property upon issuance or same and shall be non-assessable for any | purpose whatever, and the same shall be ls- 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 non-assessable, 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 snail state upon its face the number of shares rep resented thereby, and that the same IS non- assessable.
 ARTICLE4, The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of filing 1 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 iling,unless the same be renewed | pursuant to the laws of Arizona, before ter imitation thereof.
 ARTICIE5 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
 ARr1cLEe 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 sn9il oe 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, Dl rector The Directors of this corporation shall hereafter be elected by the stockholder:
 at the annual meeting, which shall be held or the first Tuesday in October each year, at II o'clock A. M.
 ARTICLE T. The officers of this corporation
 shall be President Vice President, Secretary
 and Treasurer and such other officers ano
 agents as the Board of Directors may deem
 necessary and may be created from time t' ; time for the proper transaction of it's busi
 ness; that until the first annual election O.
 officers, and until their successors are dul.
 elected and qualified, the following named persons shall constitute the officers and Di
 rectors, viz: Wm. H. Fuller, Director ant , President; G. G. Srak, Director and Vice
 President Jno. .Luckenbach, Director Secretar.
 and Treasurer: Geo.N. Fuller Director and H
 II. Cloud, Director.
 ARTICLE 8. The officers and Directors o this corporation shall hold office for the tern
 of one year from their election, and unti their successors are duly elected, unless Di
 rector shall cease to be a stockhOlder, il which case his office shall be declared vacant
 and such vacancy filled for the unexpire'
 term by the remaining members of the Boart of Directors, and which Board of Directors
 shall have the power to fill said vacancy, ol any other vacancy, in the Board of Directors of said corporation.
 ARTICLE 9. The private property Of tn
 stockholders of this corporation shall be eS
 empt from all corporate debts and liabilitie
 of every kind, and the stockholders of thi
 corporation are hereby exempted from all liz biity for any of the debts or liabilities of thi 7 corporation.
 ARTICLE 10. The capital stock of this coI poration shall be non-assessable, and each eel tificate thereof shall state on it's face the nun : Der of shares represented thereby, and tha the same is fully paid up and non-assessabl, ? ARTICLE II. The Board of Directors shal
 have the power to borrow money for any pun pose for the corporations; and power to ext
 cute corporate notes or coupon bonds of tn
 corporation therefor; and to secure the pay
 ment of the same by mortgage ou the pror f erty of the corporation, or in any other mar
 ner designated by law or by the bylaw ; of the corporations; and to do and perform al
 acts necessary in managing and carryin
 out the affairs and business of the corpo