The oasis., 1907-08-10
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 -OF THE SANTA GETRCDIS MINING COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS That we whose hands are hereuDto 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:
 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 ot the Corporation shall be the SANTA GERTRUDlS 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 estab blsh 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
 A general mining and reduction business. with full powers as 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 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 ill generaE to do all things necessary to the proper con- duet of the business of this Corporation in the |. Territory and elsewhere, not inconsiStentg 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 Milliona Dollars ($l eco ,00O) divided into One Million shares of the par yaiue of One Dollar ($l O0) each At such times as the Board of Directors may by- resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this orpOration, either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it. of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said Cor poraton, Tn payment for which shares of the capital stockof 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 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 ot q certified copy of these Articles of Incor. 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 shaM be conducted by board of Five Directors an8e the efolloWing named shall constitute the Esl of Directors until their successors are elected . W. Robertson, w. c. Ross. J. H. Colburn, c. F. LeGrand. and Albert B. Camou, which saids election of their successors shall be held upon the first day of August, 4. D.. l90S There after the Board of Directors shall b4s elected from among the stockholders on the hrst day Of August of each year. The Of- fcers of said Corporation until their sue cess0rs are elected shall be; W. G. Ross presi,- dent; w. E. Robertson, First Vice President an. General Manager; Albert B Camou, Second. Nice-President; c. F. Legrand, Secretary anG Treasurer
 SIXTH: The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent, to which this Corporaton is al any time subject shall be Ten Thousand Dollars ($l000O which amounE does not exceed twothirds 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 hereuutc ses our hands and seals this Sixth day of July lgJ7..
 ALLEN T. BIRD [SEALf
 DANE D. BIRD [SEALl