Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-24
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the vaientine-Thomsen Mining Company.

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 a 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 Valentine-Thomsen Mining Company, and its principal place of transacting business shall be at Pesrce, 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 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 anu 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 laws of the United States and the Territory of Arizona:
 To carry on the business of mining, milling, concentrating, converting, smelling, treating, preparing for mar Ret, manufacturing, buying, selling, exchanging, and other producing and dealing in gold, silver. copper, lead, 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 can be or may be produced;
 To cary 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 III.
 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 its stockholders; to contract; 10 ac- quire and transfer property of every kind, and 10 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 at stockholders meet ings. Article w.
 The amount of capital stock of the | shall be three hundred 1 thousand dollars (s300,00O). divided l into thirty thousand shares, of the par value of ten dollars (s1O.OO) each, which shall be paid in at the time or times, and upon the conditions. fixed l upon by the board of directors of the !! corporation. The board of directors i may cause said capital stock. or aiy l part thereof, to be subscribed CT paid | for in cash, real or personal property, or services rendered, and in the ab- Sence of fraud in the transaction. the l judgment of the board of directors es :c the value of the property purchased i or services rendered shall be conclu- sive.
 Article v.
 The time of the commencement of his corporation shall be the date of Hing these articles in the office of the Secretary of Arizona, and the termin- .tion thereof shall be twenty-five years hereafter.
 Article VI.
 The names of the incorporators of