Arizona silver belt., 1906-09-13
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE Hercules Copper Company

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 That we, the undersigned, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming corporation under and pursuant to the laws of the Terri tory of Arizona, and to that end adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:
 Article l.-The names of the corpor- tors are J. $. Towle, James Whelan, and II. II. Bru, and the name of the corporation shall be Hercules Copper Company, and the place in which the principal business of the said corpora tion shall be transacted is Globe, in Gila County, Arizona Territory, and the corporation may establish branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona, where meetings of the board of directors may be held
 Article 1.-The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows: Min ing, purchasing and developing mines: to make contracts; to purchase, lease, bond, locate, or otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines, mining claims, oil lands, coal lands, oil, gas, asphaltum, coal, petroleum, water and water rights and machinery, and to mine, work, explore, operate and de- velop the same; to engage in and carry on the business of treating, smelling or otherwise reducing ores, refine copper and other metals and to sell the pro ducts thereof; to build railroads, cleo tric roads, electtic light and power lines, telegraph and telephone lines and operate the same; to do general mer- cantile and manufacturing business; to construct and maintain reservoirs, water works, dams and aqueducts; to borrow money and execute notes, bonds, mortgages, or deeds of trust to secure the same, and in general to do all things necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this corporation in the Territory of Arizona and elsewhere not inconsistent with the laws of the Territory of Arizona and the United States.
 Article III. The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be One Million Dollars (Sl. GOO, ,O00 0O divided into Four Hun dred Thousand Shares of the par value of Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ($2. .50) each. At such time as the board of directors may by resolution direct, the capital stock shall be paid into this corporation either in cash or by sale and transfer to it of real and personal property for the uses and purposes of this corporation, in payment foy which shares of the capital stock of this cor I.. 1. ,.l al stock so issued shall thereup0n and hereby become and be fully paid up and non-assessable, and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the board of directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 Article W. The time of the com mencement of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of certified copy of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the Auditor of Arizona Territory, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five (25> years there after.
 Article V. The affairs of this cor poration shall be conducted by board of three directors elected annually by and from among the stockholders of this corporation. Vacancies in the board of directors shall be filled by appointment by any two of the board. Any person so appointed to fill a vacancy in the board of directors shall hold office until the next annual cleo tion and successors are qualified. The first annual meeting of the stockhold- ors for this purpose and for the tran saction of such other business as may properly come before them shall be held on the first Friday of August A. D. 1906, and annually thereafter on the same day The officers of this cor poration shall consist of president, vice-president, and secretary and treasurer. Until such board of direc- tors shall have been elected the follow ing named persons, who are each sub scribers to one share of the capital stock of the corporation, shall consti- ute the board of directors: J. s. Towle, James Whelan, and H. H. Bru, who shall organize and elect the