Arizona silver belt., 1906-08-16
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
Hercules Copper Company

Know All Men by These Presents
That we, the undersigned, do hereby
associate ourselves together for the
purpose of forming a 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. S. 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
ton shall be transacted is Globe. in
ella 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
| 4. E..Lt n,,I
lines, telegraph and telephone lines and
operate the same; to do general mer-
camille 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 Ill. The authorized amount
of capital stock of this corporation
shall be One Million Dollars
Isl. OoO, O0O. 00) divided into Four Hun
bred Thousand Shares of the par value
of Two Dollars and Fifty Cents $3.50
each. At sLch 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 for which
shares of the capital stock of this cor.
poration may be issued; and the capita
|, stock so issued shall thereupon anc
hereby become and be fully paid up anc
n-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 Nv. The time of the com
mencement of this corporation shall b'
the date of the filing of certified copy
of these Articles of Incorporation IL
the office of the Auditor of Arizona
Territory, and the termination thereof
shall be twenty-five (s5) years there
: after.
, Article v. The affairs of this cor
poration shall be conducted by boart
of three directors elected annually b!
J and from among the stockholders O
] this corporation. Vacancies IN tn
{ board of directors shall be filled b.
. appointment by any two of the board
t ANY person so appointed to NIL
7 vacancy in tn, board of directors shal
0 hold office until the next annual cleo
e ton and successors are qualified. IN
: first annual meeting of the stockhold
f ors for this purpose and for the tran
saction of such other business as ma
properly come before them shall b
held on the first Friday of August