Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-08-02
ARTICLES Of INCORPORATION
The Victoria Chief Copper Mining &
Smelling Co.

smelling Co.
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
ritory 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 1.-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
me,eting, 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,
ron, 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, CITATION, and to sell the same,
rent or otherwise deal therein, or
otherwise dispose thereof, or to main
cain and operate the same; also to
build, buy. construct and operate toll
reads, 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-
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-
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
ious business hereinbefore set forth in