Arizona silver belt., 1906-08-30
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
The Victoria Chief Copper Mining &
 Smelling Go.


 Know All Men by These Presents, That. we whose names are hereunto affixed do hereby associate ourselves togfther for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Ter rltory of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement
 First: The names of the incorpora- tors are Dana A. Rose, Howard C. Dickinson, and Florence l.. Rutter, all of New York City, New York, and the name of the corporation shall be "The Victoria Chief Copper Mining X Smelling Company.
 The principal place in which the busi- ness of said corporation within the territory of Arizona is to be transacted m Globe, Gila County, Arizona: and the principal place of business outside of the Territory of Arizona shall be Engle, Sierra County, New Mexico; also offices may be maintained at Jersey City, New Jersey, and New York City, New York, at which place the stock holders may meet in general or special meeting, as may be prescribed by the bylaws, and the corporation may have such additional branch offices either within or without the Territory of Ari- zona, in addition to those mentioned above, as may be established by the board of directors.
 Second: The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows, to-wit:
 To conduct the business of mining, both lode and placer. To extract cop per, gold, silver, or other metallifer- ous ores from the property or proper ties of this corporation, or any proper ties that the corporation may be inter- ested in. To acquire, own, lease; occu- py, use or develop any lands containing gold, silver, copper, coal, iron, stone or other ores or oil or water, and any woodlands or other lands.
 To buy and sell or otherwise to deal or traffic in gold, silver, copper, iron, steel, stone. ores, coal, wood, lumber and other materials or oil or water and any of the products thereof, and in articles consisting or partly consisting thereof.
 To manufacture gold, silver, copper, iron, steel, coke, lumber and other materials, and all or any articles con sisting or partly consisting of gold, silver, iron, steel, copper, wood or other materials, and all or any pro- ducts thereof.
 To construct bridges, houses, build ings, shops, hotels, stores, boarding houses, factories, machinery, engines, cars, and other eqipment; railroads, elevators, cold storage warehouses and plants, water works, gas works and electric works, viaducts, canals and other waterways, and any other means of transportation, and to sell the same, rent or otherwise deal therein, or otherwise dispose thereof, or to main tain and operate the same; also to build, buy. construct and operate toll roads, to manufacture or otherwise acquire, goods, wares and merchandise and personal property of every kind and description, and to hold, own, mortgage, sell or otherwise dispose of, trade, deal in and deal with the same.
 To buy mining property, real estate, personal property, or property of any kind or description, either real, per sonal, or mixed, and to pay for the same with the stock of this corpcration, or any corporation in which this cSm- pany may be interested. Also to buy, sell or otherwise acquire and hold. own, mortgage, sell, or let, rent or other wise deal in or dispose of water, water rights, appropriations of water, pipe lines and water works in general, of every description.
 To buy. sell, or otherwise acquire, and to hold, own, let, rent, irrigate or otherwise deal in or deal with, or dis pose of, any and all lands for agricult- ure purposes or otherwise.
 To engage in the live stock business and to buy, sell, breed and raise cattle, horses, sheep, goats and any other kind of live stock, and to all things incident thereto.
 To apply for, obtain, register, pur- chase, lease, or otherwise to acquire, and to hold, use, own, operate and in troduce, and to sell, assign or other. wise to dispose of any trade marks, trade names, patents, inventions, i'm provements and processes used in con nection with or secured under letters patent of the United States or else. where, or otherwise, and to use, exer- else, develop, grant licenses in respect of, or otherwise to turn to account any such trade marks, patents, licenses, processes and the like, or any such property or rights.
 To buy, sell, issue, or dispose of any stock, bonds, or any obligation of this or any other corporation, and to enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts of every kind and for any lawful purpose, with any person, firm association or corporation.
 To erect and operate mills and smelt CTS for the reduction of all kinds oi mineral bearing ores, also to purchase sell and improve land and lay out sait land in townsites, blocks, lots, streets alleys, commons and parks, also t, construct and operate wagon roads toll roads, reservoirs and railroad from the mining property or proper ties in which this company is intereste' to other railroads.
 To conduct all and any of the var ious business hereinbefore set forth il any of the United States and in tn District of Columbia, and in any an all foreign countries, and to have on or more officers therein, to hold req estate therein without limit as t Ins. tns.A