Mohave County miner., 1907-01-05
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE Mineral Hill Development Co.
 of Arizona.

Whereas. N. E. Ferguson and P. K. Kline i felter have become associated together for a certain undertaking and for the better carrying i on of same, the undersigned have agreed 10 or
 ganize a corporation under the Territory Of | Arizona laws.
 Now THEREFORE, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE | PRESENTS:-
 | That we the undersigned, do here by associ.
 ate ourselves together for the purpose Of form ] ing a copartnership under the general laws of | the Territory of Arizona; the name of which | company shall be the MINERAL HILL DEVELr
 oPMENT Co, ana the principal place Of trans
 acting business of which corporation shall be | hingman Mohave Co.,, and other ofnces may | be established at any points selected by Board
 of Directors.
 The general business to be transacted by | said corporation is to purchase, lease, locate | and otherwise acquire mineral lands and min | ing claims; to explore lands for minerals and | metals; to mine for minerals and metals; to
 extract. concentrate and reduce, buy and sell and deal in ores. minerals and metals; to erect. | maintain and operate Smelters and other plants, to treat and reduce ores; to purchase i lease, locate, appropriate, develop, or other | wise to acquire water and water rights, and the same to sell and convey; to acquire by puT chase or otherwise mill sites, dam sites, or
 reservoir sites; rights of way for ditches. con- | duits, acqueducts, pipe lines and canals; to erect and maintain telegraph and telephone | lines and electric light and power lines. and | acquire by combination or otherwise rights of way for such lines; to erect and maintain plants for operating teephOne and telegraph | systems, and electric power plants in connec- | tion with the mining operations of the cUm-
 pany, to build, maintain and operate wire, ca ble, or other tramway or railroads to be Oper- ated and run by electricity. steam. graYitatiOn or otherwise. leading from it's principal works or place of business to some navigable stream, or To some existing railroad, turnpike or pub lie highway; to condem land necessary for | the construction of any such tramway or rail road and for all purposes necessary and con venient in the operation thereof: to acquire by location or otherwise lands and rights for tun-
 nels, and all appurtenaL ces thereto incident and appertaning; to sell, exchange, lease and grant licenses, privileges and interests in and to any of the properties and rights acquired
 by the corporation; to carry on the business Of merchandising and general | ading; to lay out towns and tOwnslteS, and to sell and dispose Of lots therein and improvements on the same; to borrow money; to make and issue promiSsory notes. bills of exchange, debeItureS and Obn cations and other evidences of indebtedness of every kind and description necessary or con venient in the conduct Of its business, and to secure the same by mortgage, pledge, or other wise: to acquire, hold and sell stock in other
 corporations, and to hold, acquire and sell
 bonds and other securities and evidences of , indebtedness.
 The amount of capital stock of said corpora
 tiOn shall be two hundred and fftT thousand dollars, divided into two hundred and fifty thousand shares of one dollar each. pro- vided further that said capital stock may be paid into this corporation either in cash. or services, or by sale and transfer of real or per SOnal property to the corporation for the uses and purposes of the corporation the Board of Directors may determine. When shares of stock shall have been paid for in any Of said
 ways, certificate of such shares may be issued and the shar' so issued shall thereupOu and thereby become and be fully paid, and non | asSable. and in the absence of actual fraud in
 the transaction. the judgment of the Di ectors | us to the value of the property shall be con f elusive. The stockholders may vote by writ ten proxy for the election of Directors, and for
 the transaction of any business that may prop | erly come before the stockholders meeting. | "
 The time of commencement Of the sad cor poration shall be the time of the filing of the certified copy of these articles in the office of | the auditor of said Territory, and the time of | the deter imitation of this corporation shall be | twenty-five years from the date of such filing.
 The affairs of said corporation shall be con- | ducted by Board of Directors consisting of | five stockholders who shall be elected annually | on the first Tuesday after the first Monday Oi | April. The Directors so selected shall hold a Directors meeting immediately following that | of Stockholders and elect from among them l selves a President, Vice President, Secretary
 and Treasurer It being further provided that any one Director may hold two offices, and 1 those to serve until their successors will be
 elected at annual meeting will be as follows: J. W. Carr, President.
 P. K. klinefelter, Vice-Presdent. ~. D. ClsuSoHs soCSACbAAg anu W. c. Fellows.
 | c. A. Shepard.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or lia- | bility to which said corporation shall at any | time subject itself shall be two hundred and | fifty thousand dollars.
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 Private property of the stockholders of said | corporation shall be exempt from the debts of | said corporation.
 | In witness whereof we have hereuntO set our
 names this 26th day of NOvem Der, 1906 N. E. FERGUSON, | P. K. KIINEFELTER.
 TSeTTit0ry S,t9y of Arizona Arizona ss.
 | Before me, Ross H. Blakely, Clerk of the District Court, in and for the county aforesaid,
 this day, personally appeared N. F.. Ferguson | and P. K. hlinefelter, known to me to be the | foregoing instrument. and acknowledged that | consideration therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal this 26th day | November A. D. 1906
 (SeaD ROSS H. BLAkFLY,
 Clerk of the District Court of Mohave County. | Recorded at request of N. E. Ferguson No-
 vember 26th, A. D. 1906, at 10 minutes past three
 o'clock D. m.. in Book 3, pages 43-4445- 46 of h.
 corporation Records of Mohave County, Ari-
 zona Territory. -
 TSeall THOS. MCNEELY,
 County Recorder.
 First publication Dec. 1-Jan