The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1905-09-20
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
The Hecla Mining Company.

Know all men by these presents, That we,
whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby
associate ourselves together for the purpose
of forming a corporation under the laws of
the Territory of Arizona, and to that end
make the following statement:
First: The names of the corporators are
Geo. r. Bentel, n. NJ. Edmond, w. c..
| Tonkin and the name of the corporation
shall be The Hecla Mining Company. The
principal place within the Territory of Ari-
zona in which the business of said corpora
ton is to be transacted is Yuma, Yuma
County, Arizona, and the corporation may
establish branch offices either within or
without the Territory of Arizona where meet
| ings of the Board of Directors may be held
Second: The general nature of the business
proposed to be transacted by this corporation
is as follows. to-wit:
To mine for gold, silver, copper, lead, and
all other precious metals, to buy and sell
ores, operate smelters, mills and other re-
duction plants, to make contracts; to pur-
chase, lease, bond, locate or otherwise ac-
quire, own, e-change, sell or otherwise
dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate
and deaf in real estate and any and all kinds
of personal property; mines, mining claims,
oil lands coal lands, mineral lands, oil, gas,
coal, 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 Arizona.
Third: The authorized amount of capital
stock OF this corporation shall be five hun
dred thousand dollars (S5OO,OOO) divided into
five hundred thousand shares of the par
value of one dollar Isl .OO each. AT such time
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 pro-
perty for the uses and purposes of said cor
poratiop in payment for which shares of the
capital stock of said corporation may be iss-
ued, and the capital stock so issued shall there
upon and thereby become and be fully paid
up and worcestershire, and in the absence of
actual fraud in the transaction the Judgment
OF the Directors as TO the value of the pro-
perty purchased shall be conclusive.
Fourth: The time of the commencement
of this corporation shall be the date of the
filing of certified copy of these Articles of
incorporation 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 a Board of seven Directors
and the following named shall constitute the
Board of Directors until their successors are
elected: Geo. r. Bentel N. NJ. Edmond, J.
d. Payne, Jr., f. A. Meyer, Burt Dunlap, w.
c. Tonkin.
Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be
elected from among the stockholders on the
first Monday in January of each year. The
officers of said corporation until their sue
cessors are elected shall be: George R. Bentel,
President; w. G. Tonkn, vice-President and
Manager; n. NJ. Edmond, Secretary and
Treasurer.
Sixth: The highest amount of Indebtedness
or liability, direct or contingent, to which
this corporation is at any time subject shall
be fifty thousand dollars (S50,O00), which
amount does not exec 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. day of. 1905.
Geo. r. Bentel, (SeaD
n. NJ. Edmond. (SeaD
w. c. Tonkin, (SeaD
State of California,
County of Los Angeles, ."
On this thirteenth day of May, in the year
1905 before me Hiram Woods~Barlow, a No
tary Public in and for the State and County
aforesaid, residing therein, duly commission
ed and sworn, personally appeared George r.
Bentel5 N. Al. Edmond and w. G. Tonkin,
known to me to be the persons described in,
whose names are subscribed to, and who
executed the annexed instrument. and they
acknowledged to me that they executed the
same for the purposes and considerations
therein expressed.
In witness whereof, l have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my official seal, at my
office, in the said State and County, the day
and year last above written.
Hiram Woods Barlow,
[Seall Notary Public.
My commission expires December %, 1909.
Territory Arizona, &C
County OF Yuma,
!, ]. 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 the Articles of IncOr-
poration of the Hecla Mining Company as
filed for record in my office on this date and
as recorded in Book 2, of Articles of Incorpo-
ration. at Page II, ct seq., records of Yuma
County aforesaid.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and aft xed my seal of office this Goth
day of May, A. d. 1905
tSealI j. NJ. Polhamus,
County Recorder, in and for said County.
First publication May 81, 1905.
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