The oasis., 1907-07-13
ARTICLES OF INCORPoRATION
-oF THE SANTA GETRCDIs MINING COMPANY,

KNow ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement: .-.. rt.ElE tf .4
 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 theSAETA GERTRUDIS MINING COMPANY. The prin- cipal place within the Territory of Arizona in which the business of said Corporation is to ber 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 4H 55.
 general mining and reduction business, with full powers set forth herein, to-wlt:
 To make contracts; to purchase, lease, bond locate or otherwise acquire, own, eXcnange, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate 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 i'll 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 or capital stock of this Corporation shall be One Million ! Dollars ($l 000000) divided into One Million shares of the par value of One Dollar (SlO0) each ! At such times as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this Corporation, either Tn cash or by | the sale and transfer to it, of real or personal property for the uses and purposes ot said Cor ! poratiOn in payment for which shares of the capital stOck0f said corporation may be issued, |, [ 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 i'll the transaction the judgment of the
 Directors as u the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 | FOURTH The time of the commencement ot
 this Corporation shall be the date ot the hing l of a certified copy of these Articles Of lncOr- poratiOn 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 Board of Directors until their successors are elected !: | w. E. Robertson, w. c. Ross, J. H. Colburn, G. | F. LeGrand, and Albert B. Camou, which said
 election of their successors shall be held upon
 the first day of August, A. D., 1908. There
 after the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders on the
 first day of August of each year. The of-
 icers of said Corporation until their sue
 cessors are elected shall be: W. C. Ross, Presi.
 dent; W E. Robertson, First Vice President
 an1 General Manager; Albert B. Cam0u, 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 (slOO0O) which amount does not exceed two-thirds the amount oi 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 sel our hands and seals this Sixth day of July 1 l9J7 - ALLEN T. BIRD SEAL D