The Arizona sentinel., 1906-01-24
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 corporation under the laws of tho Territory of Arizona and to that end make tht following statement:
 First: The names of the corporators arc Geo. R. Bentel N. M. 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 tC be transacted is Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona and the Corporation may establish branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona where meetings of the Board oi 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 contracts; 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, oll lands coal lands, mineral lands, oil, gas, coal. shale asphaltum, !petroleum, asbestos, 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 million and five hundred thousand dollars (S1, 800 00o.0O divided into three hundred thousand shares of the par value of five dollars $500 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 of a certified copy of these Articles of Incor- poration in the office of the auditor, and the termination thereof shall be twenty five years thereafter.
 Fifth: The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by a Board of five Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board Of Directors until their successors are elected Geo. R. Bentel, A. J. Ratelle, F. A. Meyer, W. A. Bowles and w. c. Tonlin. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders on the second Monday in September of each year. Sixth: The highest amount of inde btedness or liability, direct or contingent, to which this Corporation is at any time subject shall be fifty thousand dollars (85OOOO), which amount does not exceed two-thirds the amount Of capital stock.
 Seventh: The private property of the stock holders of this Corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 18th day of November 1905.
 Geo. R. Bentel, (SeaD
 N M. Edmond, (ScaD
 A. J. Ratelle (Seal( State of California.
 County of Los Angeles, { '"
 On this 18th day of November 1905, before me- A, D. Laughlin. a notary public in and for the State and county aforesaid, residing therein duly commissioned and sworn, personally ap- peared Geo. R. Bentel IN. M. Edmond and A. J. Ratelle, known to me to be the persons de- scribed in and whose names are subscribed to and who executed the annexed instru ment and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and consid erations therein expressed.
 In witness whereof. have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in said state and county the day and year last above written.
 A. D. Laughlin tSeall Notary Public My commission expires June 2i, 1908, Territory of Arizona ss
 County of Yuma
 l, J. NJ. PolhamuS, County Recorder in and for the county of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is true full and correct copy of Articles of In corporation of the Arizona Gold Dredger Company, as filed for record in my office Ion the 27th day of November, A. D. 1905, at 3:l0 p. m., and as appears of record .in Book of Articles of Incorporation, page 1l0, Records of Yuma county.
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 27th day of November, A. D. 1905.
 J. M. PolhamuS. ISeall County Recorder Yuma County,
 Arizona,
 First pub December 6, 1905