The border vidette., 1906-11-03
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
MONTEZUMA EXTENSION GOLD
MINING COMPANY.

MlNlNG IOMG AN L.
KNOW ALI. MEN THESE PRESENTS: That we,
the undersigned. all of when residents of
the State of California, have this day vOlun-
tarily associated ourselves together for the
purpose of organizing and conducting cor
poration under the laws of the Territory of Ari-
zona and to that end we do hereby certify:
Article The name of this corporation shall
be MuNTEzUMA EXTENSION GOLD MINING
COMPANY.
Article II The principal place in which the
business of this corporation shall be transacted
is the City of NOgales. County of Santa Cruz
Territory of Arizona, United States, and its
principal branch office shall be at Los Ange-
les, State of California, and it may establis h
and maintain such other branch offices, either
within or without the Territory of Arizona,
as IT'S Board of Directors may establish AT
such branch office in Los Angeles, State of
California, the first and subseQ uent meetings
of its stockholders and Board of Directors may
be held, and any and all of its corporation
business transacted.
Article Ill That the purposes for which it
is formed follows:
To discover and locate. acquire, purchase,
own, hold, sell, lease, operate mines of
minerals, mining lands, water and water
rights; and to carry on and conduct, either
within Arizona Territoy elsewhere, a
general mining business; to construct and
operate electric caDle carrier ways, o.
railways in connection with the operations
of mining, milling smelling ores; to locate
water ways, construct and operate reservoirs,
bitches and tunnels in connection with mining:
to own, held, lease. mortgage, cucumber. and
otherwise dispose of, real, personal and all
other kinds of property in the Territory OF
Arizona, elsewhere; to buy, sell, exchange
and deal in stocks and bonds of other cor
porations: and to make contracts of every cha
racter in any place to the same effect as a
natural person might SO do.
Article " That the amount of the capital
stock of said corporation is One Million
Dollars Isl 600 ,00OJ anG the number of shares
into which it is divided is million, OOO,-
600. of the par value of One Dollar SLID
each.
Article At such times S the Board of Di-
rectOrs may direct, the capital stock shall be
paid into the corporation, and such pay
meat may be either in cash by the sale and
transfer to it of property for the uses and
purposes of said corporations; and shares of
stock may be then issued, and shall thereupon
and thereby be aud become forever fully paid
up and non assessible. and in the absence of
actual fraud, the judgment of the Board of
Directors as to the value of the property pur-
chased services rendered to the corporation
for shares of stock said corporation, shall
be forever conclusive. Shares of stock may
be issued for services rendered to said cor
pOration, either in it's creation, for other
services ami such stock shall stand upon
the same footing as stock paid for in actual
cash.
Shares of the capital stock of this corporation
may be seld by order of the Board of directors
at any sum less than par which said Board of
Directors in their discretion may direct; and
when sold and issued, if issued as fully paid,
said stock shall forever be deemed fully paid,
and the holder holders thereof shall never
be become liable to said corporation or to
creditors thereof. or to any person OF persons
whatsoever for the amount of the dIffereL ce
between the price paid for said shares of stock
and the par value thereof.
Article vi That the existence of this
poration shall be deemed to commence the
date which the duly certified copy of these
Articles of incorporation shall be filed with
the Territorial Auditor of Arizona, and the
termination thereof shall be twenty five %
years from said date, unless renewed or eX-
tended pursuant to the laws of said Territory,
Article VII The affairs of this corporation
shall be conducted by board of Five > =
directors, three > of whom being present
and acting may proceed with authority, and
their acts shall be as binding if all five were
present and participating. The following
named persons shall constitute said Board
of Directors, until their SUCCESSORS shall he
duly elected.
Names of Directors Whose recidence is at,
L. &. Jordan, Long Beach, California
+. &. Foote, Long Beach, California
G.. Beaureeard Poland, Los Angeles. California
q. N. Mccullough, Lone Pine, California
+. A. Anderson, Los Angeles, California
The subsequent directors shall be elected
from the Stockholders, for which tue B. avs
of this corporation shall provide. and the
vote of any stockholde- may he cast in per- o.,
or by written proxy, which written proxy when
once executed, shall continue in force until
with the Secretary of the corporation.
create Indebtedness against itself in an
amount exceeding 81 ,0GOOOO.
Article TX The stockholders of this cor
pOration and their private property shall be
forever e4en pit frCm all Corporate debts and
liabilities of this corpora alton of whatsoeVe r
character. Shares of stock in this corporation
hall forever be worcestershire.
Article y The directors hereof by resolution
may provide such officers, agents and en-
ployees, the needs of the corporation may
seem to demand, and compensate them in
money or stock IF this corpol alton. as they
may deem best and wlsest.
In WITNESS WEREoF, we have herunto set
our hands and seals. this 10Th day of Sep
TENDER, 1906
L. c, JORDAN.
+. c, TOOTE.
f. a. ANDERSON.