The oasis., 1905-05-27
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 Or THE VICTOR MINING AND SIMPLIFYING COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
 That we, whose names are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose Of forming Il corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the following statements:
 FIRST: The names of the eorporatoTs are Trauger W H. Paul and T. Abernethy. ] s. Shepherd and Allen T. Bird, and the name Of the corporation shall be THE VICTOR MINING AND SIMPLIFYING COM MPANY. The principal place in which the business of sAid corporation shall be transacted within the Territory Of Arizona shall De Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Territory of Arizona, with branch offices at such places in the United States and the Re- public of Mexico, as the Board oi Directors may by resolution direct, Ut any Of which places all meetings of the stockholders and Board oi Directors may be held, and all bnsi ness transacted.
 SECOND The general nature of the business proposed to De transacted by this corporation ls as follows, t0-wit:
 To purchase, lease, bond, locate or otherwise acquire, own. exchange, sell or otherwise dis pose of, pledge, mortgage, hyputhecate, and deal in mines, mining claims, oil lands. miner al lands, oil, gas, as pha ltum, petroleum, water and water rights and to work, mine, explore and develop the same; to do u general real estate and mercantile business; to own, handle and c0ntroiletters pategt and inventions; to borrow money and execute mortgage or deeds of trust to secure the same; to build and own dams, canals, ditehes, fumes and other means as may be necessary to divert impound or con duct water and to use the same for irrigation, and to generate power 10 be used as such, CT to be converted into electricity or electric power as may be deslred, and to use, sell. rent or otherwise dispose of the same to build, cen struct or otherwise provide lines for the trans
 mission of electricity or electr.e power, and to equip the same; to build, own, equip and opeT- ate railway, telegraph and telephone lines from it's mines and works to il connection with other lines; to buy, own, hold and dispose Of the stock or bonds of other corporations. and in general do all things necessary to properly conduct the business of this corporation in the | Territory of Arizona and elsewhere, not incons sistent with the laws of the Territory of Arizo
 na and the United States.
 THIRD. The authorized amount of capital stock Of this corporation shall be One Milton tSi ,00 0,000 00l Dollars, divided into One Hum ured Thousand Shares of the par value of Ten ! si0.00 Dollars each \ such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this cor poratou, either in cash or by the sale and transfer to 1t of real aad personal property for payment for which shares of the capital stock ot said corporation may be issued and all Of the capital stock issued by the company shall be fully paid up and non-assessable.
 FOURTH: The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date oi the filing of these Articles of Incorporation in the office oi the Auditor of the Territory of Arizona. and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter
 FIFTH: The affairs of this corporation shall
 be conducted by Board of Five or more Di- rectors, who shall be elected annually by the stockholders of the corporation. Until tbe first annual meeting the following persons shall constitute the Board of Directors. Frank r. Jackson, Lewis J Haas, John L. Trauger, ".