Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-20
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the vaientine-Thomsen Mining Company.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE
 PRESENTS.
 That We. the undersigned, have this
 day voluntarily associated ourselves
 together, for the purpose of forming
 corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona. and do hereby
 make. execute and adopt the following
 articles of incorporation: Article |. | The name of said corporation shall
 be the yalentine-Thomsen Mining
 Company. and its principal place of transacting business shall be ct
 Pearce, Cochise County, Arizona, with
 branch offices at New York City, New
 York. and at such other places as may | be determined by the board of direc- tors, where regular and special meet | ings of the directors and stockholders l 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 it's branches;
 To own, handle and control letters patent and inventions; To borrow money and execute mort | 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 l laws d 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, i exchanging. and other producing and
 dealing in gold. gilyer, copper, leai,
 zinc, brass, iron. steel and all kinds of ores metals and minerals. and the l products and by-products of the same,
 and by whatsoever process the same
 can be or may be produced; To carry on it's business in any part
 of the world, and to buy, own, and dis pose of the stocks and securities of other corporations. Article HI. l Among the powers of the corpora | ton shall be: To have perpetual sue | cession; to sue and be sued by its ! corporate name: 10 have a corporate seal, and to alter the same at pleas ! ure; to prescribe modes of making ! transfers of stock and of interests of 1 its stockholders; to contract; to ac-
 quire and transfer property of every | kind, and to possess the same powers 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- | termine the qualifications of it's di- rectors and the rights of stockholders
 to vote by proxy al stockholders meet iDgs.
 Article W. The amount of capital stock of the corporation shall be three hundred thousand dollars (s300, ,00O). divided into thirty thousand shares. of the par value of ten dollars (s1O.00) each, which shall be paid in at the time or 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 part thereof, to be subscribed ',- paid for in cash, real or personal property, ! or services rendered, and in the eab- 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.
 The time of the commencement of
 this corporation shall be the date of filing these articles in the office of the
 Secretary of Arizona, and the termin-
 ation thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 Article VI. The names of the inccrporators of the corporation are: H. V. Ruther- ford, John J. Clark and Gustav Friei- ing.
 Article VII. The affairs of the corporation shall
 be conducted by board of five di-
 rectors, who shall be elected annually
 by the stockholders on the second
 Monday of January in each year, when the annual meeting of stockholders 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 1dfh dau Oe JQO6