The oasis., 1907-08-03
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 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 ablsh 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 ill 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 Cooperation 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- pubic or MeXlcO ana the state Ol sonora.
 THIRD: The authorized amount of capital stock of this Corporation shall be One Million Dollars ($l,0000OW divided into One Million shares of the par value of One Dollar ($l00) each. At such times as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this OrpOraton, 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 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 in the transaction the judgment of the Directors as 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 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 d board of Five Directors and l the following named shall constitute the Uard Of Directors until their successors are elected :: W. E Robertson, w. G. Ross. J. H. COlburn, G. F. LeGrand. and Albert B. Camou, which said election of their successors shall pc held upon the first day of August, A. D., 1908. There after the Board of Directors shall be i elected from among the stockholders on the l first day of August of each year. The of 1 ficers of said Corporation until their sue 1 cessors are elected shall be-: w. C.. Ross. lresi- l dent; W. E. Robertson, First Nice-PresideGt an, General Manager; Albert B. Camou, second l Vice President; c. F. Legrand, Secretary and 1 Treasurer.
 SIXTH: The highest amount of indebtedness | CT liability, direct or contingent to which this i Corporation is at any time subject shall be l Ten Thousand Dollars ($l0,000) which amount 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 sci our hands and seals this Sixth day of July, l9J7.
 ALLEN T. BIRD [SEALl