Arizona silver belt., 1906-03-29
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE Apache Consolidated Copper Company.

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 Apache Consolidated Copper Company. Know All Men by These Presents:
 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 1.-The names of the cor porators are Joseph Pfister, Edward F. Pfister and Chas. T. Martin, and the name of the corporation shall be Apache Consolidated Copper Com pany,.' and the place in which the principal business of said corporation shall be transacted is Globe, in Gila county. Arizona Territory, and the cor poration 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 brsiness 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 Tn real estate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines, mining claims, oil lands, mineral lands, coal lands, oil, gas, asphaltum, coal, petro- leum, water and water rights and machinery, and to mine, work, explore, operate and develop the same; to engage in and carry on the business of treat ing, smelting or otherwise reducing ores, refine copper and other metals, and to sell the products thereof; to build railroads, electric roads, electric light and power lines, telegraph and telephone lines and operate the same: to do general mercantile and manu- ! featuring business; to construct and maintain reservoirs, waterworks, 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 of the United States.
 ARTICLE III. The authorized amount of the capital stock of this corporation shall be Two Million Dollars ($2, ,000,- 900. 0.00), divided into Two Million Shares of the par value of One Dollar (S1. 00) 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 the sale and transfer to it of real and per soral property for the uses and pur- poses of this corporation, in payment for which shares of the capital stock of this corporation may be issued; and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non-assessable, and in the absence of actual fraud in the trans ac- tion the judgment of the board of directors as to the value of the prop erty 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 directors of not less than three nor more than seven persons, elected annu- ally by and from among the stockhold- CTS of this corporation. The first annual meeting of the stockholders for this purpose and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before them, shall be held on the first Friday of May, A. D. 1906, and annually thereafter on the same day The officers of this corporation shall consist of president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer-whic latter offices may be segregated by the board of directors. Until such board of directors shall have been elected the following named persons, who are each subscribers to one share of the capital stock of this corporation shall constitute the board of directors: Joseph Pfister, Edward F. Pfister and Chas. T. Martin, who shall organize and elect the officers of the corporation. Such board of directors shall have power to fill all vacancies in such board or the officers of the corporation, caused by resignation or otherwise, and until their successors are elected and qualified such board and such officers are hereby given the power and author ity to do and perform any and all duties usually appertaining to like offices, which powers and duties while so acting as such officers and directors of this corporation, shall include the adoption of corporate seal and the affixing thereof to any stock certificates or other instruments of writing necessary or proper, as well as the adoption of the necessary bylaws for the proper conduct of the affairs of this corpora tion.
 ARTICLE VI.-The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or con tingent, to which this corporation shall at any time subject itself shall be and is hereby fixed at the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500, 000 0O, which amount does not exceed two thirds of the amount of the authorized capital stock of this corporation.
 ARTICLE VII. The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from liability for the payment of corporate debts.
 In witness whereof we have here
 unto set Our hands this 23rd day