Arizona silver belt., 1906-09-20
STATE OF MAINE
,o.,;eoate of Organization of a Cor nor,tion Under the General Law.

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 onJ Transfer Company m the town oi
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 NMnvember, A. D., 1905 hereby certify as follows: ., |: mn
 Nat;onal Mining Exploration Company. Tha nnrposes of sad corporation are ,orryipg on the hereinafter named busin.ss, to-wit:
 ' To nurchase, lease, or otherwise ac- ou;re any mines and lands in the United States or elsewhere, or any interest therein. and to explore, work, exercise, dayelop and turn to account the same; to nuarry. mill, smelt, reduce, refine, dress. concentrate, amalgamate and nrspare for market, ore, metal and pp,incral substances of all kinds, and to carry on any other operations which may seem conducive to any of the com. many objects: to buy, sell, manufac- ibre and deal in minerals. ores and finished products, plants. machinery. implements, cOnveniences, provisions nod things capable of being used in connection with mining operations, or required hy workmen and others em- ploycd by the company: to construct. carry v-out, maintain, improve, manage, work. control and superlntend any roads. ways. bridges. tramways. reser- yoirs, water courses, acqueducts, wharves, furnaces, mills, crushing works and conveniences which may seem directly or indirectly conducive to any of the objects of the company, and to contribute to, subsidize or otherwise. aid or take part m any such operations.
 To buy, sell and own dredging plants, and articles used in or about dredging operations and the real estate proper for carrying on such business: and to make contracts for and perform the work of dredging and removing and carrying away by land or water, eX- cavated or dredged material: to reclaim and till in low lands by diking them or depositing upon them rock. soil or other material: to build docks, walls and piers, and to do all things incidental to. and proper to be performed m said business.
 To acquire, hold, improve, lease, operate and sell timber, farming, graz ing, mineral, oil and other lands, and the products thereof; to build, con struct. maintain, and operate plants and works for the development of such lands and for the handling, preparing and rendering commercially available all of the various products thereof To purchase or otherwise acquire. operate and maintain hotels. buildings, stores and warehouses.
 To acquire streams, lakes and small ponds for irrigation purposes or other wise. To build, acquire. own, charter and operate vessels propelled by steam or otherwise, and to constru #, com plete, furnish, maintain, and conduct lawful lines of communication and transportation, and to conduct, carry on and transact a general transporta- tiOn business of passengers and freight in any lawful manned, and upon its property to construct, conduct and operate a transportation business in any manner deemed proper. To ac- quire and use, sell or otherwise dispose ot the whole or any part of the good will, property and rights, and to lnder take the liabilities of any person, firm, association or corporation engaged in a business similar to that of thls corpora tion, and to pay for the same in money, stock or bonds of the corporation or otherWlSe.
 To enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts of every kind and for any lawful purpose with any per son, firm, association or corporation, or with any government. incidental to the business of this company. To bor- row and raise money by the issue of or upon warrants, bonds, debentures and other negotiable or transferable instruments or otherwise. To hold, purchase, or otherwise acquire, sell, assign. pledge or otherwise dispose of the shares of the capital stock, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness created by any corporation, and while the owner thereof to exercise all the rights and privileges of ownership, in cluding the right to vote thereon.
 . Toguarantee the payment of divi- dends or interest on any shares of stock. bonds, debentures or other securities or obligations of this or any other company in which the corpora tiOn may be properly interested when ever in the judgment of the Beard of Directors proper and necessary for he business of the company; to aid in any manner any corporation whose stock, bonds or other obligations are held, or m any manner guaranteed by the com pany, and to do any other acts or thing necessary for the preservation, inn provement or enhancement of the value of any such bonds, stocks or other obligations. To remunerate any person or corpora ton Tor services rendered or to be rem dered, in placing or assisting to place, or in guaranteeing the placing of any Of the stock of the company, or in or about the formation or promotion of the company, or in the conduct of its | business. To use and apply the surplus earnings of the corporation, or it's ac- | cumHated profits authorized by law to | be reserved; to the purchase of, or in- | yestment in, it's own capital stock from llme to time; to receive its own stock | m payment or satisfaction of indebted | ness to the corporation, and to reissue | and sell any of the stock so purchased | or acquired, to such extent, in such | manner, and on such terms, as the | Board of Directors of the corporation | snail determine, it being provided, how ever, that stock shall not be declarable | ih dividends, unless a majority in in- | terest of the stockholders so determine; put the capital stock of the company Snall not be decreased, except as pro 'lded by the laws of Maine.
 10 apply for. purchase, or otherwise | acquire, and to hold, use, own, operate | ana rent, sell, assign or otherwise deal ln any trade marks, trade names, copy | rlEhts' patents, inventions, improve mehtS and processes used in connec- toh with, or secured under letters patent ot the United States or else "h're or otherwise, and to use, exer- ngNnInf. .. |