The Arizona sentinel., 1907-01-16

Theodore G. Fitch.
 The name of said corporation shall be: "The Bertrand Copper Company" | The principal place of business of the corpora. tion within the Territory of Arizona shall be at the town of Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, where the annual meeting shall be held. 1 The directors may meet and do business in the city of Los Angeles, California, in such other place in this, any other country, as they may from time to time determine. III. The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as fol | lows, to-wit:
 To make contracts to purchase lease bond or otherwise acquire or exchange, sell or other wise dispose of, pledge. mortgage and Geal in all kinds Of mines and mining stock, mining claims, mineral lands. water rights, pumping plants furnaces smelling or teaching plants and concentration works, and own, buy and sell, any and all kinds of mining machinery, or inventions, or patents referring to, or in any way connected with the reduction of ores and | the extraction of the values therefrom; and to work mines, explore, operate and develop the same either in the Territory of Arizona, Mexico or elsewhere.
 To own, buy and sell capital stock of other corporations, and to exchange the capital stock of this corporation for that of other corpora | tions, to consolidate with other corporations upon such terms and conditions as the Board of Directors may decide; to own and operate stores for the sale of merchandise of every nature and description. to loan money, and borrow upon such security as the directors may decide; to I hlIv water riohtS and water rOyvr- and ntilize the same for the use of the corporation, for sale to others; to own and operate saw mills, cyanide plants such other mechanical a1pli ances as may be necessary, and to do any and all things that may be necessary or requisite to conduct general mining, mer- chandising and financial business, as well as to construct and operate railroads to facilitate mining operations and to stock and bond the same as the Directors may determine | ". | The authorized amount of capital stock Of this corporationishall be Five Million Dollars (S5, ,OCO OOO.OO), divided into one million shares of par value ot $500 each. 1 Said capital stock shall be paid in this corpor- ation, either in cash or by the sale and transfer | to it of any mine mining property, lands, patents. or the stool; of other companies for l
 nent therefor, and the shares of the capital stock of this corporation may be issued in pay ment of such property, money or stock Of other corporations and become thereby fully paid up and non-assessable, and the judgment of the Directors as to the value of such property so bought ana paid for in stock shall Dc con- elusive.
 l The time of the commencement of this cor poration shall be the date of the filing of these Articles of Incorporate ion in the office of the County Recorder of Yuma Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five (25) years.
 The affairs of the corporation shall be con- ducted by Board of Three Directors, and the following persons shall constitute the Board of Directors, who shall hold office until their sue cessors are duly elected and qualified; Georye c. Haldetnun, Henry l.. Musscr and Theodore G. Fitch.
 1 The Board of Directors shall have power to ! appoint an executive committee from among | its members, consisting Of three persons and to grant to said executive committee full power to conduct the affairs of the company and report their proceedings from time to time to the | Board The Board of Directors by resolution may in- crease it's members to eleven CID Directors. TX. | The highest amount of indebtedness or lia- bility, direct or contingent, to which this cor poration shall at any time be subject shall not exceed One Million Dollars (sl,OOO, ,OoO.OO). K 1 The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from corpor- ate debts of any kind whatsoever. 1 In witness whereof. the incorporators have | hercunto set their hands and seals this 31St cay of December, 1906.
 GEORGE c. HALDEMAN. (SeaD. HENRY L. MUSSER, (Seal). THEODORE G. FITCH, (SeaI. STATE OF CALIFORNIA. COUNTY OF Los ANGELES. l On this 31st day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, before me, James B. Hobbs, Notary Public in and TOT said County of Los Angeles, State of California, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared George c. Haldeman Henry L. Musser and Theodore G. Fitch, known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the within and annexed
 
 executed the same.
 In witness whereof. have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal in | (SEAL) said County, the day and year in | this certificate first above written. JAMES B. HOBBS, | Notary Public in and for Los Angeles County, l State of California.
 TERRITORY OF ARIZONA COUNTY OF YUMA. 7 I, J. M PolhGmuS, County Recorder in and for the County and Territory aforesaid, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is true and correct copy of the Articles of Incorpora- tion of The Bertrand Copper Company, as filed for record in my office on the 3rd day of Janu- ary,{A. D., 1907, and as appears of record in Book Two of Articles of Incorporation records of Yuma County.
 | In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal of l {SEAL) of1ice this 3rd day of January, A. D., 1907
 J. M POLHAMCS, | County Recorder Yuma County. l ist pub. Jan. 9, '1907
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