The Arizona sentinel., 1906-01-03
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Arizona Gold Dredger Company

Know all men by these presents, that we whose hands are he:eunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws Of the Territory of Arizona. snd 10 that end make the following statement:
 First: The names of the corporators are Geo. R. Bentel. \. RI. Edmond and A J. Ratelle and the name of the Corporation shall be The Arizona Gold Dredger Company The principal place within the Territory of Arizona in which the business of said Corporation is to be transacted is Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, and the Corporation may establish branch otaces either within or without the Territory of Arizona where meetings of the Board of Directors may be held,
 Second: The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this Corporation is, as follows, to-wit: To erect and operate sampling plants, smelters, mills, dredging or hydraulic plants, steam and electric railways lines, telephone and telegraph lines, to buy and sell the same, to buy, sell and refine ores and metals.
 To make contra cts; to purchase lease bond locate or otherwise acquire, own. exchange, sel or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property mines, mining claims, oill lands, coal lands. mineral lands, oil. gasgcoal shalc asphaltum, lpetroleum' asbessos salt water and water rights and machinery, and to work, mine, explore operate and develop the same; and in general to do all things necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this Corporation in the Territory and elsewhere not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the Territory of Ari- zona.
 Third: The authorized amount of capital stock of this Corporation shall be one milhon and five hundred thousand dollars (Sl,5OO,0O000) divided into three hundred thousand shares of the par value of Eve dollars (s5.OO) each. At such times as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this Corporation, either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said Cor poration, in payments for which shares of the capital stock of said Corporation may be is- sued, 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 transaction the judgment of the Directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 Fourth: The time of the commencement Of this Corporation shall be the date of the filing
 Arfi Of poration in the ofice of the auditor, and the termination thereof shall be twenty five years thereafter.
 Fifth: The affairs of this Corporation shall be conduted by Board of five Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors arc elected: Geo. R. Bentel. A. J. Ratelle, F. A Meyer W. A. Bowles and W. C. Tonkin Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders on tho second Monday in September of each year. Sixth: The highest amount of lindeb ebtednes: or liability, direct or contingent to which this Corporation is at any time subject shall be fifty thousand dollars (s5O oO0), which amount doe: not exceed twothirds the amount Of capita stock.
 Seventh: The private property Of the stock holders of this Corporation shall be exemp from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever. In witness whereof. we have hereunto set oul hands and seals this 18th day of November 1905
 Geo. R. Bentel, (SeaD
 N M. Edmond, (ScaD
 A. J. Ratelle. (Seal( State of California, lss
 County of Los Angeles,
 On this 18th day of November 1905, before me A D. Laughlin. a notary public in and for tn State and county aforesaid, residing therein duly commissioned and sworn, personally aI psared Geo. R. Bentel N. NJ. Edmond and A. J Ratelle, known to me to be the persons dc scribed in and whose names are subscribe to and who executed the annexed instr' executed the same for the purposes and consit erations therein expressed.
 In witness whereof have hereunto set m hand and affixed my official seal it my office said state and county the day and year las = above writtep.
 A. D. Laughlin, ESeall Notary Public My commission expires June 24, 1908, Territory of Arizona, ss
 County of Yuma
 IJM Polhamus, County Recorder in an for the county of Yuma, Territory of Arizon; do hereby certify that the within and foregoir is a true. full and correct copy of Articles Of Il corporation of the Arizona Gold Dredgt Company as filed for record in my ofhC ion the 27th day of November, A. ID. 1905, BIO p. m.. and as appears of record .ln Boo of Yuma county.
 In witness whereof hf.ve hereunto set Tn hand and affixed my seal of office this 21th oa of November, X. D. 1905.
 J. M. Polhamus. ISeall County Recorder Yuma County,