Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-22
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION of the
 valentine-Thomsen Mining Company.
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That We, the undersigned, have this
 day voluntarily associated ourselves
 together, for the purpose of forming a
 corporation under the laws of the 1 Territory of Arizona. and do hereby
 make, execute and adopt the following
 articles of incorporation:
 Article |.
 The name of said corporation shall
 be the Valentine-Thomsen Mining
 Company, and its principal place of ] transacting business shall be at
 Pearce. Cochise County, Arizona, with
 branch offices at New York City, New
 York. and at such other places as may l be determined by the board of direc-
 tors, where regular and special meet ! ings of the directors and stockholders
 may be held, and any and all of the
 business may be transacted. Article n. The general nature of the different
 kinds of business proposed to be
 transacted by the corporation, is as | follows, to-wit:
 To purchase, lease, locate, bond, or
 otherwise acquire. own, exchange. sell,
 or otherwise dispose of pledge, mort gage, and deal in, work, mine, explore
 and develop mining claims, oil, min
 eral, timber and agricultural lands, | oil, gas. asphalt, petroleum, water and | water rights;
 To do a general real estate, mer-
 cantile and mining business in all its | branches;'
 To own, handle and control letters | patent and inventions; To borrow money and execute mort i gages or deeds of trust to secure the | same, to issue bonds and other evi- dences of indebtedness, and in gen.
 eral to do all things necessary to the | proper conduct of the business of the corporation, not inconsistent with the
 laws oS the United States and the | Territory of Arizona: To carry on the business of mining,
 milling, concentrating, converting, smelling, treating, preparing for mar ket, manufacturing, buying, selling, exchanging, and other producing and 1 dealing in gold, silver, copper, leaI,
 zinc, brass, iron, steel and all kinds of ores metals and minerals, and the
 products and by-products of the same, and by whatsoever process the same SdH DC UT may DS To carry on it's business in any part of the world, and Co buy, own, and dis
 pose of the stocks and securities of | other corporations.
 Article III. Among the powers of the corpora | ton shall be: To have perpetual sue
 cession; to sue and be sued by It's | corporate name; 10 have q corporate
 seal, and to alter the same at pleas | lre; to prescribe modes of making ! transfers of stock and of Interests of l its stockholders; to contract; to ac- quire and transfer property of every ! kind. and to possess the same powers 1 in such respects as private individuals | now possess; to establish bylaws,
 rules and regulations for the manage ment of the affairs, not inconsistent
 with law, and by such bylaws to de- l termine the qualifications of it's di-
 rectors and the rights of stockholders
 to vote by proxy at stockholders meec- ! irgs.
 Article iV. The amount of capital stock of the 1 corporation shall be three hundred | thousand dollars (s30O, ,00O). divided
 into thirty thousand shares. of the par value of ten dollars ($10.00) each, which shall be paid in at the time or l times, and upon the conditions. fixed upon by the board of directors of the | corporation. The board of directors
 may cause said capital stock, or ally 1 part thereof, to be subscribed C' Laid | for in cash, real or personal property, | or services rendered, and in the ab- l sence of fraud in the transaction, the | judgment of the board of directors aS | to the value of the property purchased | or services rendered shall be conclu sive.
 Article V. i The time of the commencement of 1 this corporation shall be the date of | filing these articles in the office of the 1 Secretary of Arizona, and the termin-
 ation thereof shall be twenty-five years | thereafter.
 | Article VI. The names of the incorporators of 1 the corporation are: H. V. Ruther- l ford, John J. Clark and Gustav Friel- | ing
 Article Vii. The affairs of the corporation shall
 be conducted by a board of five di- rectors, who shall be elected annually 1 by the stockholders on the second | Monday of January in each year. when
 the annual meeting of stockholders 1 shall be held.
 Article VIII. The highest amount of liability, di-
 rect or contingent, to which the cor | poration shall subject itself, is two hundred thousand dollars. Article TX. The private property of the stock | holders of the corporation shall be exempt from all corporate debts.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this 24th day of January, 1906. (Seal H. V. RUTHERFORD, (Seal) JOHN J. CLARK. (SeaD GUSTAV FRIELING. l STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY | OF NEW YORK. ss: