The Arizona sentinel., 1905-08-16
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE The HecIa Mining Company.

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 corporation nhder the laws of the Territory of Arizona and to that end make tie following statement:
 First: The names of the corpOrators are Geo. E. Bentel, x. M. Edmond, w. c. Tonkin and the name Of the corporation shall be The fiecla Mining Company. The principal place within the Territory of Arf- zona in which the business of said cOfpora- tion is to be transacted is Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, and the corporation may establish branch offices either within or without She 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 Ey this corporation is as follows. to-wit:
 To mine for gold, silver, copper, lead, and AT other preciOas metals, to buy and sell ores, operate snfeIterS, mills and other re- ductiOn plants, to Thake contracts; to pur- chase, lease, bond, locate or otherwise ac- Guire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of pledge, mortgage, hypotheSate and deaf n Teal estate and any and all Kinds of personal property; mines, mining claims, oil larids, coal lands, mineral lands, ofl gas, coal, shale asphalturh, 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 flaws of the Unified States and the Territory of AriZona.
 Third: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be five hun Gred thousand dollars (S5O0,OoO divided into five hundred thousand shares of the par value of o11e dollar (slOW each. Atsucil 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- perry for the uses and purposes of said cor po1afion in payment for which shares of the capital stock of said corporation may be iss- ded, and the capital stock so issned shall there upon and thereby become and be fully paid up and hon -assessable, ahd in the absence of actt&I fraud in the transaction the Judgment of the Directors as to the value of inc 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 shalf be conducted by Board of seven Directors and the following named shall constittite the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: Geo. R. Bente1, N. NJ. Edmond, ]. D. Payne, Jr., F. 4. Meyer, Burt Ddhlap ". c. Tonkin.
 Thereafter the Board Of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders orT fine first Monday in January of each year. The officers of said corporation until their suc- cessors are elected shall be: George R. Bentet, President; ". c. T6nsin, vice: President and Manager; N. NJ. EdHfond, Secretary and Treasurer.
 Sixth: The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent, to which ttris corporation is at any time subject shall be fifty thousand dollars (s5O,GeO), which amount does not exceed two thirds the 8mouf1t of capital stock. Seventh: The private property of the stock holders of this corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts or sAy 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
 ". c. TOrkin5 (Seal) St4te of California t
 County of Eos Angeles,
 On this thirteenth day of May, fin the year 1895 before me Hiram Woods Barlow, No- fary Public in end for the State and County l aforesaid, residing therein, duly commissions cd and sworn, personally appeared George R. Bentel, N. NJ. Edmond and w. c. Tonkin, known to rae to be the ReISohs described in, whose names are subscribed to-, slYd who executed thc annexed instrument. and they ] acknow Iedged to me that they executed the | same for the purposes and considerations therein expressed. Tn witness whereof I EsVe hefeunto set | my hand and afTi xed my official seal, at my | office, in the sa5d State and County. the day | and year lasf above written.
 Hiram Woods Barlow,
 ESeall Notary Public: My commission expires Deceh1bef g, 1909. Territory Arizona, se County of YuH4a, ~ l, J. NJ. Polhamus County Recorder in and for the County Of Yuma, Territory of Arizona. full and correct copy of the Artieles of Fncor- poratiof' of the Hecl3 Mining Company as l filed for record in my office on this date and | as recorded in Book 2 Of Articles of IncorpO- ration. at Page r, ct secf., records of Yuma County aforesafd.
 In witness whereof, have hereunto set my hand and affi xed my seal of office this 20th 1 day of May, A. D. 1905.
 ESeall J. NJ. Polhamus,
 Comfy Recorder, in and for said County. .'GFst pGbicaGion May 3l, E9eo'