The Arizona sentinel., 1905-11-15
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Tonovah Gold Butte Mining Company


 Know all men by these presents, that we, the undersigned. Wm. II. Fuller, Jno. Luck enbach and H. H. Cloud, all of the County of 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. ARrICLEI, 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 or the stoclzhold 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. 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, smeiters, ana all other mining machinery or appliances necessary thereto, and gas, electric llghtS 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 O. every kind and description, to manufacture, l buy and sell all kinds of merchandise; to bor- row money; to issue and sell bonds secured by mortgage on any or all ofits corporate prop erty: to purchase, acquire; own, preempt, and l 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. ARTICLE3 The amount of the capital stock shall be the sum of one million (Sl O00,6C0) dol lars. divided into one million Q,0OO,OO0) shares ofthe par value of one(Sl, ,OO dollar each which capital stock, when issued, must be fully
  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 | non-assessable, on condition of the transfer to this corporation of property or rights in prop erty of any description which said corpora l ton 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 sarae fs iiSi1- | assessable.
 AETfvLEi, i, 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 imitation 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 C shall be conducted and managed by a 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:
 Vim. 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 blythe stockholders at the annual meeting, which shall be held on the first Tuesday in October each year, at lt o'clock A. NJ.
 I ARTICIE7 The officers of this corporation shafl be a 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 tt time for the proper transaction of it's busl ness; that until the first annual election of officers, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, the following named perso shall constitute the officers and Di- rectors, viz: Vim, H. Fuller, Director ano President; G. G. Srak, Director and Vice
 President Jno Luckenbach, Director, Secretary and Treasurer: Geo N. Fuller Director and H
 h Cloud, Director.
 ARTICLE 8, The officers and Directors ol this corperation shall hold office for the term of one year from their election, and until their successors are duly elected, unless a Di
 rector shall Cease to be a stockholder, il | hi I1a1 bo 6acla red vacant and such vacancy filled for the unexpiret term by the remaining members of the Board of Directors, and which Board of Directors shall have the power to fill said vacancy, or any other vacancy, in the Board of Directors of said corporation.
 ARTICLE 9. The private property of th' stockholders of this corporation shall be eX empt from all corporate debts and liabilitie of every kind, and the stockholders of thi corporation are hereby exempted from all lia
 bility for any of the debts or liabilities of this corporation.
 ARTICLE 10. The capital stock of this cor
 poration shall be non-assessable, and each cer
 tificate thereof shall state on its face the mum
 Der of shares represented thereby, and tha
 the same is fully paid up and non-assessable
 ARTICLE H. 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 th
 corporation therefor; and to secure the pay
 ment of the same by mortgage ou the prop
 erty of the corporation, or in any other man
 ner designated by law or by the by-aw
 of the corporations; and to do and perform al
 acts necessary in managing and carrying
 out the affairs and business of the corpoI