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

TOnopah Gold Butte Mining Company Know aIr men by these presents, that we the undersigned. Wm. H. Fuller, Jno Luck
 enbach and H. H. Cloud, all of the County 0 , Los Angeles. State of California, have thi day associated ourselves together for the puT
 pose of forming a corporation under the law
 ofthe Territory of Arizona, and hereby adop
 the following Articles of Incorporation.
 ARTICLE l, 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 a branch office a
 the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
 State of California, where meetings of tn,
 stockholders and of the Board of Director
 may be duly held, and the business of the cor
 poration carried on in accordance with tho
 laws of Arizona, with the same effect as il 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 COT
 poration
 ARTICLE 2. The nature of tho 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 l alo fc oil rafn no ton rights and licenses thereunto appertaining
 to refine ores; to purchase, to acquire. lease own or sell real and personal property of every kindand 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 ofits 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 l 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. ARTICLE 3. The amount of the capital stock shall be the sum of one million (S1 000, ,600) dol lars, divided into one million 1000, ,GO0) shares of the par value of one(sl, ,0O) 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 non-assessable, on condition of the transfer to this corporation of property or rights in prop erty of any description which said corpora 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 same Is non- assessable
 ARTICLE 4, 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.
 ARTICLE B. The highest amount of indcbt- 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 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 tion. The names of the persons who are ap pointed to sefve 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. M.
 ARTICLE 2. The officers of this corporation shall 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 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 persons shall constitute the officers and Di- rectors, viz: Wm, H. Fuller, Director and President; G. G. Srak, Director and Vice President Jno. Luckenbach, Director, Secretary and Treasurer: Geo.N Fuller Director and H. Ii. Cloud, Director.
 ARTICLE 8, 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 Di- rector shall cease to be stockholder, 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 fill said vacancy, or any other vacancy, in the Board of Directors of said corporation.
 ARTICLE 9. The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be eX- empt from all corporate debts and liabilities of every kind, and the stockholders of this corporation are hereby exempted from all lia- biity 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 tifcate thereof shall state on its 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 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 bylaws of the corporation; and to do and perform all acts in manaQinp and carving out the affairs and business of the corpor-