Arizona silver belt., 1906-08-09
ARTICLES Of INCORPORATION
The Victoria Chief Copper Mining &
Smelling Co.

SucstUy w.
Know All Men by These Presents,
That we whose names are hereunto
affixed do hereby associate ourselves
together for the purpose of forming "a
corporation under the laws of the Ter
rltory of Arizona, and to that end max e
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 &
Smelling Company.
The principal place in which the bust
ness of said corporation within the
territory of Arizona is to be transacted
in Globe, ella 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-
IONA, 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 metalifer-
Gus 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-
Ply, 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 equipment; railroads,
elevators, cold storage warehouses and
plants, water works, gas works and
electric works, viaducts, canals and
other waterways, and any other means
of trans, ortation, and to sell the same,
rent or otherwise deal therein, or
otherwise dispose thereof, or to main
tam 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 corporation,
or any corporation in which this com
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-
nectlon 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
ooNh 'ieuS pttSHto, nCcIlocS,
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-
ers for the reduction of all kinds of
mineral bearing ores, also to purchase,
sell and improve land and lay out said
land in townsites, blocks, lots, streets,
alleys, commons and parks, also to
construct and operate wagon roads,
toll roads, reservoirs and railroads
from the mining property or proper
ties in which this company is interested
to other railroads.
To conduct all and any of the var
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