The oasis., 1907-08-17
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS That we, the undersigned, having associated our selves for the purpose of forming a corporation under Chapter II of Title XIII, Revised statutes Of Arizona. 1901, and Acts amendatory thereof hereby adopt the following Articles of lncor- poratiOn
 ARTICLE I. The name of the corporation shall be SONORA CENTRAL MINES CON- PANY. and its principal place of business shall be NOgales, Arizona, but other offices may be established and maintained within or outside of Arizona at such places as the Board of Di- rectOrs may designate where meetings of stock holders and directors may be held.
 ARTICLE II. The general nature of the busi- ness proposed to be transacted Is mining, mil- ling converting, preparing for market and otherwise producing and dealing in gold silver, copper lead, zinc, brass, iron, steel, and all kinds of ores. metals and minerals, oils, gas and coal, and the products and by-products thereof; to purchase or otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell CT otherwise dispose of mort gage, hypothecate and deal in mines and min eral lands oi all kinds, oil, coal and timber lands, real and personal estate, agricultural lands, water and water rights, and to work, ex- plore, operate and develop the same; to pur- chase or otherwise acquire, erect, own, operate and dispose of smelling and ore reduction works, oil refneries, saw mills and power plants; to do general manufacturing and mercantile business; to own, handle and con- trol letters patent and inventions and shares of it's own capital stock and that of other corpor- ations and to vote any shares of stock owned by it the same as natural person might do;
 
 evidences of indebtedness and secure the pay ment of the same by mortgages, deed of trust or otherwise; to act as agent, trustee, broker, or i'll any other iducary capacity and t0 borrow and loan money: and in general to do and perform such acts and things and transact such business in connection with the foregoing objects, not inconsistent with law iu any part of the world as the board of directors may deem to the advantage of the corporation.
 ARTICLE III. The capital stock of the corpor- ation shall be Ten Million Dollars ($l0.0O0- 000.d0), divided into One Million shares Q,O00- 000) of the par value of Ten Dollars ($1000 each, which shall be paid for at such times and in such manner as the board of directors may designate. All or any portion of the capital stock may be issued in payment for real or personal property, services, Or any other right or thing of value for the uses and purposes of the corporation, and when so issued shall be- come and be full-paid the same as though paid for in cash at par; and the directors shall be sole judges of the value of any property. right or thing acquired in exchange for capital stock. Nc shares Of capital stock shall be issued until 1 fully paid for and thereafter shall be non as sesSable.
 ARTICLE " The commencement of the cor poration shall be the day these Articles aIe l filed in accordance with law, and the ternina- | tion thereof shall be twenty-five years there after, with privileges of renewal as provided by Statute.
 l shall be conducted by board of fifteen direct ors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected. Amos r. BaJOu Albert G. Beau nisne, Frederick B. Smith, Frederick E. Mills, Edgar B. Tolman, L. D. Ballou, A. S. Service, A. c. Waters, V. D. Smith, Arthur B. Cody John w. Elliott, Otto R. Barnett Mar quis Eaton, Don S. Harvey, Marshall A. Sattley. 1 Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders on the l Fifteenth Day of September of each year. The officers of said Corporation until their success sors are elected shall be: Frederick B. Smith i, President; Albert c. Beaunisne, Vice President; i; A. P Ballou, Secretary; Frederick E. Mills, l Treasurer.
 ARTICLE VI. The Directors shall have power to adopt, amend and rescnd Bylaws, to fill vacancies occurring in the board from any cause and to appoint from their own number an executive committee and vest said com mittee with all the powers granted the di- rectors by these Articles
 ARTICLE VII. The highest amount of in deAtedness or liability to which the corpora tion is at any time to subject itself is Six Mil 1 lion Dollars ($6 600O,L 100000
 ARTICLE VIII. The private property of the stockholders of the corporation shall be forever exempt from it's debts or obligations
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We hereto affix our 1 signatures this 2nd day of July, 1867.
 ALBERT c. BEAUNISNE, fSeall
 FREDERICK B. SMITH. [Seall |