The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1905-03-29
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
THE SIGNAL COPPER COMPANY.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

ticn under the laws o. tie Territory C Arizona
in the United States Of America. and FOR Jha
purpose Go hereby make, execute, adopt, sigL
and acknowledge these Articles Of Incorpora
tion.
First: The name of this corporation is
and shall be THE SIGNAL COPPER COM
PANY."
Second: The principal place for the fransac-
ton of business of this corporation shall be at
the Signal Group OF copper mines embracing
the Copper Prince" and other quartz mining
claims situate about nine (9) miles east Of
Planet Post ONCE in the Harcuvar Mining Dis
trict, in the County Of Yuma in the said Ter
ritory OF Arizona. This corporation may keep
other principal Offices and places of doing bust
at the City OF Los Angeles. in the State of
California, and in the City of New York, in the
State Of New York. at which place or places
all or any incorporatorS' stockholders. and
directors meetings may be held and all business
pertaining to this corporation may be transacted
and carried on.
The business of this corporation may be car
ried on in all parts of said Territory of Arizona.
and in any and all of the other Territories and
States and in the District OF Columbia, in the
United States Of America; in the Dominion Of
Canada; in the Republic of Mexico, and else
where may be deemed best by the directors
o: this corporation for the purpose of carrying
on and ont the objects and purposes for which
this corporation is created.
Third: The amount of the capital stock CT
this corporation is and shall be Five million
Dollars "a, 100000 divided into five hundred
thousand (5OO,oJ0 shares OF the par value of ten
dollars $50 each.
The said capital stock shall be and is hereby
made forever worcestershire by this corporation
for any purpose said capital stock may be paid
for at the date of issuance ut such time and
der such conditions as the Board of Directors of
this Company may designate in money, prop
erty, labor, or any other valuable right or equiv
alent or thing, and the judgment of the Board
of Directors of said Company 10 the value
thereof shall be conclusive.
Fourth: The time Of the commencement of
the existence of this corporation shall be the
date OF the filing of certified copy of these Ar
ticles of Incorporation in the Once of the Ter
ritorial Auditor of the said Territory of Arizona
and it shall endure and exist for twenty-1ve(29
years from and after the date of so filing said
certified copy of its Articles with said last men
toned onicial its charter rights may be re-
newed before it ceases TO EXIST from time to
time for period not in excess of twenty-ive(25)
years at any one time.
Fifth: The affairs and business of this cor
poration shall be conducted and controlled by a
Board of five Directors, each and all OF whom
shall be stockholders in such corporation, and
such directors shall select from among them
selves the following officers: APresident Vice
President, Secretary and Treasurer, to be the
officers of this corporation. Said Directors shall
be elected the first time at the date of the
organization meeting OF this corporation by the
eereinabove mentioned incorporators to serve
as s'Ioh directors until the first annual meeting
Of the stockholders of this company. The an
nual meeting OF the stockholders OF this cor
poraticn shall be held upon the third Wednesday
inJanuary of each year at the hour of ten o. clock
in the morning. Such directors SO elected shall
be the directors of this corporation until their
Successors are elected and qualified.
Sixth: And the persons who shall be and con-
stitute the Board OF Directors Of this corpora
ton until such meeting is held or until their
successors are elected and qualified are the
above incorporators, to-wit:
George H. Hooper,
Newton Evans,
Thomas H. Foote,
o. c. Mathes,
E. H. Moyle-
shall be elected as aforesaid by said Board of
Directors within thirty 900 days after the cleo
ton or selection Of directors at SUCH meeting
and for the first year and until the holding of
said annual meeting the directors shall elect
said officers from among their number at the
organization meeting within thirty 3O) days
after the filing Of certified copy Of these Articles
in the Office Of the said Auditor of said Territory
OF Arizona.
Seventh: The highest amount Of indebted
ness or liability to which this corporation is at
any time to subject itself shall not exceed the
sum of One Million Dollars 81 ,0O0,OOOl>
Eighth: The private property of the stock
holders and incsrporators of this company is
and shall be forever exempt from any and all
liability for any debt or debts or liability of th4
corporation
Ninth: The objects and purposes, and the
general nature of the business to be transacted
and carried on for which this corporation is
created and organized, and the general nature
thereof, is to own. possess have. buy SELL lease
and acquire by location, announcement or other
wise to incumber and otherwise dispose of mines,
mineral lands, mill sites and other lands, and
mining property, both real and personal, of
every kind and nature whatsoever, stamp mills,
treating and reducing and shipping and trans
porting ores, fiuxing material, bullion. matte,
and any and all things used in the treatment
and reduction of ores and mineral Substances,
water and water rights for power, domestic,
mining and other purposes, easements, rights
Of way for bitches, fumes, pipe lines, reservoirs,
dams, tram-ways, roads, concessions, franchises,
wharveS, railroads, both electric and steam, to
or'tO belong to or operated by this corporation
and used in connection herewith; and to build,
construct and maintain bitches, fumes, pipe
lines, trails, reservoirs. dams. tramw ways, roads,
wharvesi develop mines mineral lands and ex-
tract and ship, treat and reduce and sell the
values and ores and minerals obtained there
from; and to buy and sell and treat ores and
mineral substances, and to buy, lease, sell erect.
operate and maintain SInelters. stamp mills, and
any and all plants for the treatment and reduc-
ton of ores and minerals and to buy and sell
bnllion and the product of ores and minerals;
and to buy sell, lease have. possess and operate
mining, smelling and milling machinery and
tools OF every description for the treatment of
ores and minerals; 10 erect, maintain, own
and have and operate power plants for the
transmission Of power by electricity or other
wise for the operation Of mines roads. smelling
milling and plants for treatment of ores and
minerals, ard to erect and lease and maintain
buildings of any and all kinds necessary to use
in carrying out the purposes and objects for
which this corporation is formed.
To borrow money and to cucumber the cor
porate property as security for the payment
therefor, to make, execute, sign and deliver
bonds, debentures, bills, promissory notes and
mortgages for and On behalf and in the name Of