The oasis., 1907-07-27
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 -OF THE SANTA GETRCDIs MINING COMPANY.

KYow ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Territory Of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement
 FIRST: The names of the incorporators are Allen T. Bird and Dane D. Bird, both of Noga- les Santa Cruz County, Arizona Territory, and the name of the Corporation shall be the SANTA GERTRUDIS MINING COMPANY. The prin- cipal place within the Territory of Arizona in which the business of said Corporation is to be transacted is Nogales, santa Cruz County, Ari- Zona, and the Corporation may establish branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona where meetings of the Board of Directors may be held.
 SECOND: The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this Corporation is as follows, to-wit:
 general mining and reduction business, with full powers set forth herein, to-wit:
 To make contracts; to purchase, lease, bond, locate or otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose Of, pledge, mortgage, hypOthecaLe and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property; mines; mining claims, oil lands, coal lands, mineral lands, oil, gas, coal, shale, asphaltum, petro- leum, 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 con duct of the business of this Corporation in the Territory and elsewhere, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the Territory of Arizona or Of the laws of the Re- public of Mexico and the State of Sonora.
 THIRD The authorized amount Of capital stock of this Corporation shall be One Million Dollars ($l000.000) divided into One Million shares of the par value of One Dollar (Sl0O) each. At such times as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct said capital stock shall be paid into this torpOration, either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it, of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said Cor poratiOn in payment for which shares of the capital stockof said corporation may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall theTeupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non-assessable and i'll the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment Of the Directors to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 FOURTH The time of the commencement of this Corporation shall be the date of the filing of certified copy of these Articles of Incor- poraton in the office of the territorial auditor and of the recorder of Santa Cruz County, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 FIFTH The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by board of Five Directors and the following named shall constitute the oaId of Directors until their successors are eltcted {: w. K. Robertson, w. G. Ross. J. H. Colburn, G. F. LeGrand and Albert B. Camou, which said election of their successors shall be held npon the first day of August, A. D., 1908 There elected from among the stockholders on the first day of August of each year. The of- ficers of said Corporation until their sue cessors are elected shall be- W. C. Ross, PTesi- dent; w. E. Robertson, First Viee-President It anu General Manager; Albert B. Camou, Second Vice President; c. F. Legrand, Secretary and Treasurer.
 SIXTH: The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent, to which this Corporation is at any time subject shall be Ten Thousand Dollars ($l00o0) which amour does not exceed two-thirds the amount of capital stock.
 SEVENTH The private property of the stockholders 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 sixth day of July, l9U7.
 ALLEN T. BIRD [SEALl
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