The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1905-05-03
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
Oro San Felipe Mines Compan,

OF THE
Orc San Felipe Mines Company.
Know all men by these preSentS:-
That we the undersigned, have associated
ourselves together for the purpose of Forming a
corporation under the general laws of the Ter
ritory of Arizona and the Amendments thereof,
and have adopted for the government of such
corporations the following articles:
First
The names OF the ineorporatOrs are Stephen
w. Dorsey John w. A. OF and George Ealde-
man. all citizens Of the United States.
Second:
The name of said corporation shall be:
THE ORC SAN FELIPE MINES COMPANY
And the principal place or business shall lie
in the towa OF Yuma. Yuma County, Arizona;
with branch Offices in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mex
ico Los Angeles. California. and such other pla-
ces in this and either countries as tire directors
may frcm time to time designate
The meeting of the stockholders shall be held
annually in Yuma, Arizona. on such day aS the
BY laws Of the corporation shall designate, but
the directors may meet ut any place in this or
other countries that they may find convenient
to transact the business Of the corporation.
Third:
The general nature of the business of this cor
poration shall be
To make contracts to purchase, lease, bond or
otherwise acquire or exchange, sell or otherwise
dispose OF. pledge, mortgage and deal in all kinds
of mines and mining stock, mining
claims mineral lands, water rights,
pumping plants, furnaces, smelling or
teaching plants and concentration works,
and own. buy and sell any and all kinds of min
ing machinery or inventions, or patents refer
ring to, or in any way connected with the pro-
duction of ores and the extraction of the values
therefrom, and to work, mine, explore, operate
and develop the same, either in the Territory
of Arizona, Mexico or elsewhere, To own, buy
and sell capital stock of other corporations and
to exchange the capital stock of this corpora
tion for that of other corporations, to conSoh-
date with other corporations upon such terms
and conditions as the Board of Directors may
decide To own and operate stores for the sale
of merchandise of every name and description,
to loan money and borrow upon such security as
the directors may decide; to buy water rights
and water power and utilize the same for the
use of. the corporation. for sale to others; to
own and operate saw mills, cyanide plants or
such other mechanical appliances as may be
necessary and to do any and all things that
may be necessary or requisite to conduct gen
eral mining, merchandising and financial bust
ness as well as to construct and operate rail
roads to facilitate mining operations and to
stock aad bond the same as the directors may
determine.
Fourth: The amount of the capital stock of
this corporation shall be one million Q.OOO,OOC)
,.ho of, of doll oh
At such times and upon such conditions the
board of directors of this corporation shall by
resolution accept or direct, said capital stock
shall be paid into this corporation, either in
cash orby the sale and transfer to it of real or
personal property, including the capital stock
franchises and property of other corporations,
either domestic orforeign, in paymentfor which
the capital stock of this corporation may be
issued, and the capital stock so issued shall
thereupon become md be fully paid up and non
asscSsablc, and in the absence of actual fraud
in the transaction the judgment of the board of
directors as to the value of the property so pur-
chased shall be conclusive,
Fifth: The time of the commencement of
this corporation shall be the date of the filing
of these articles in the Office of the county re-
corder in Yuma county, Arizona. and the filing
of a copy of the same with the auditor of the
territory of Arizona, and the termination there
of shall be twenty-five years thereafter, but
the same may be renewed from time to time for
the period of twenty-five years as provided by
law.
Sixth: The affairs of this corporation shall
be conducted by a board OF directors, which
shall be composed Of not less than three nor
more than seven members, to be chosen from
among the stockholders of the corporation at
the annual Stockholders meeting or by the
board of directors, and until their SUCCESSORS
are elected and qualified Stephen W. Dorsey, !
John w, A. OFF and George C. Haldeman shall
serve directors.
Seventh: The highest amount of liability, di- |
rect contingent, to which this corporation is at
any time subject is three hundred thousand
dollars (S3OO,OOO.
Eighth: The private property of the stock |
holders of this corporation shall be exempt
from corporate debts.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set
our hands this - day of March, 1905,
Stephen w. Dorsey,
j. w. A. Of,
George C. Haldeman.
State of California
County Of Los Angeles, go
Before me. Charles D. Kimball a Notary |
Public, on This day personally appeared Stephen |
w. Dorsey, John w. a. OFF and George c. Hal |
deman, known to me to be the persons whose |
names are subscribed to the foregoing inStru- I
ment and acknowledged to me that they exc /
Cuted the same for the purpose and eonSidera- |
tion therein expressed.
Given under my hand and seal of office this |
End day OF March, 1905.
My commission expires October % 1906
Charles d. Kimball
ISeaD Notary Public,
Territory of Arizona co
County of Yuma "
/, j. NJ. PolhamuS, County Recorder IN and |
for the county of Yuma. Territory of Arizona. |
do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true.
full and correct copy of Articles of Incorpora-
tion of the Gro San Felipe Mines Company, as
fled for record in my Office the Sth day of |
March A. ID. 1865, and appears of record in
Book. of Articles of Incorporation. page $40 |
ct seq. Records Of Yuma county, aforesaid.
In witness whereof l have hereunto set nly |
hand and affixed my seal of office this Sth day |
of March, A d. 1907
j. M PolhauuS,
County Recorder Yuma County,
Arizona Territory,
First pub March 10, 1905
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