The Arizona sentinel., 1905-08-02
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE The Hecla Mining Company.

whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming 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. Bente, N. NJ. Edmond, w. c. Tonkin and the maine of the corporation shall be The tfecla Mining Company. The principal place within the Territory of Ari- zoha in which the business of said corpora tiOn is 10 be transacted is Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, and the corporation may establish branch offices either within or without the Territory ofArizona where meet ihgs Of the Board of Directors may be held.
 Second: The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by thls 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- auire, own, CXchaifge, sell ~or otherwise dispose of pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deai in real estate and any and all kinds Of personal prCpefty; mines, mining claims, oil lands, coal lands, mineral lands, oil, gas, coal, Shale asphaltum, petroleUih, 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 tlre Territory Of Arizona.
 lIo inf bOs # Aa tol stock of this corporation slr;ttl be five hun dred tl6usand dollars (S500,000) divided into five hundred thousand shares of the par value of one dollar (sl.OO each. At such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corporation, either iii cash Or by the sale and transfer to 1t of real or personal pro- perty for the uSes and purposes of said cor poration 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 hon-assessabIe, and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Directors as to the valtic 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 thefeafter;
 Fffthy T,fe affairs Of thfs corporation shall be conducted by Board of seven Directors and the following named shall constitute the eTected Geo. R. Bentel, N. M. Edmond, J. Br vk S,E. NY C. Tonsin.
 Thereafter tht Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stock holders on the first Monday in January of each year. The officers of said corporation untff their suc- cessCfs ere elected sirsyll be: George R Bentcl, President; ". C. TOnkin, vice President and Manager; N. NJ. Edn4ond, Secretary and Treasurer.
 Sixth: The highest amount of indebtedness or disability, direct or contingent, 10 which this corpotation is sst any time subject shall be fifty thousand dollars (S50,50o), which amount does net exceed two thirds the amount of capital stock.
 Se7enth; The private property of the stock holders of this corporation shall be exempt from cor5orafc debts of any kind whatsoever. lh witness whereof, We have hePednto set o9r h;snds and seals this. day of. 1905.
 Geo: R. Bentel, (SeaD
 y. M. Edmond. (SeaD
 W. c. Tonkin, (Sear SFate of California,
 County of Los Angeles, sS
 Gif this thirteenth day of May. in the year FsoJ before T%e Hiram Woods Barlow, No- fafy Pjtbfac in and for the State and County afoFesafd, residing therein, dufy commissions ed and sworn, personally appeared George R. Behtet N: NJ. Edmond and ". C. Tonkin, known 10 me to be the persons described in, whose names are subscribed to, and who executed the annexed instrument. and they to me that they executed the same for the purposes and considerations ,herein expressed.
 In witness whereof, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, at my office, in the said State and County. the day .nd year last above written.
 Hiram Woods Barlow, [Seall Notary Public. My commission expires December p, 1909. Territory Arizona, ] County of Yuma, J '' 1, J. NJ. Poihamus. County Recorder in and Or the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, | To hereby certify that the foregoing is true, ull and correct copy of the Articles of Incor- 'oration of the HecEa Mining Company as fled for record in nay office on this date and | s recorded in Book ?, of Articles of Incorpo- ation. at Page r, ct seq, records Of Yuma | County aforesaid.
 Tn witness whereof, have hereuflto set my land and affixed my seal of office this 10th | lay of May, A. D. 1905.
 iSeall J.. M. Polhamus,
 County Recorder, in and for said County. First publication May ST. 1905.
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