The Arizona sentinel., 1905-12-13
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Ionapah Gold Butte Mining Company


 OF THE
 Tonopah Gold Butte Mining Company.
 Know an men by these presents, that we, the undersigned. Wn. 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 of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors may be duly held, and the business or the cor poration carried on in accordance with the laws of Arizona, with the same effect as If 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, 1 mill sites colonization works, Smelters, and all other mining machinery or appliances necessary thereto, and gas, electric lights 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 of every kind and description, to manufacture, buy and sell all kinds of merchandise; to bor- l row money: to issue and sell bonds secured by mortgage on any or all of its 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 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 B. The amount of the capital stock shall be the sum of one million (sl OO0, ,6oO) dol l TS, ofthe par value of one(sl ,OO) 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 -assessabIe, 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.
 ARTICLE4 The time of the ecompencement 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 l imitation thereof.
 ARTICIE5 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
 ARTICLEe The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted and managed by 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 serve as Directors for this corpora tion until the first annual election of officers and directors, and until their successors arc duly elected and qualified. are as follows:
 Wm H. Fuller, Director and President; G. C. i SralS 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 ockholder: at the annual meeting, which shall be held or the first Tuesday in October each year, at l( o'clock A. M.
 ARTICLE7. 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 deer necessary and may be created from time t' time for the proper transaction of it's busl ness; that until the first annual election O. officers, and until their successors are dul, elected and qualified, the following named persons shall constitute the officers and Di rectors, viz: Wm, H. Fuller, Director an( President; G. G. Srak, Director and Vice President mo- Luckenbach, Director, ,Secretar. and Treasurer: Geo. N. Fuller Director and H H. Cloud, Director.
 ARTICLE s. The officers and Directors O this corporation shall hold office for the tern of one year from their election, and unti their successors are duly elected, unless a Di rector shall cease to be a stockholder, Il which case, his office shall be declared vacant and such vacancy filled for the unexpire' term by the remaining members of the Boaro l of Directors, and which Board of Directors shall have the power to fiji said vacancy, ol any other vacancy, in the Board of Director: of said corporation.
 ARTICLE g. The private property oN tn stockholders of this corporation shall be eH empt from all corporate debts and liabilitie of every kind, and the stockholders of thi corporation are hereby exempted from all liz
 bility for any of the debts or liabilities of thi
 corporation.
 ARTICLE 10. The capital stock of this col . poration shall be non-assessable,a and each cel
 tiicate thereof shall state on it's face the nun
 Der of shares represented thereby, and tha
 the same is fully paid up and non-assessabl' ARTICLE II. The Board Of Directors shal ! have the power to borrow money for any pul
 pose for the corporation; and power to ex'
 cute corporate notes or coupon bonds of tn
 corporation therefor; and to secure the pa,
 ment of the sa me by mortgage ou the proI
 crty of the corporation, or in any other mar