The oasis., 1908-05-16
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
--OF THE CALUMET AND SONORA COPPER 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:
 ARTICLE l. The names of the corporatOrs are J. H. Harris, George Kumpf and W. N. Collins, and the name of the Corporation shall be CALUMET AND SONORA COPPER COMPANY. The principal place within the Territory of Arizona in which the business of said Corpora ton is to be transacted is Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, and the Corporation may establish office at Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, and such other branch offices a may be desired either within or without the Territory of Arizona where meetings of the in- corporators, stock holders and Directors may be held.
 ARTICLE II. The general nature of the busi- ness proposed to be transacted by this Corpora ton is as follows, to-wit: To buy and sell stock in this and other corporations; to make contracts; to purchase, lease, bond, locate or otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hyp0thecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property; mines, min ing claims, oil lands coal lands, mineral lands, oil, gas, coal shale, asphaltum, petroleum, asbestos, salt, water and water rights and ma chinery, and to work, mine, explore, operate and develop the same; and in general to do all things necessary 10 the proper conduct of the business of this Corporation in the Territory apd elsewhere, not inconsistent with the laws oF,the United States and the Territory of Arizona.
 ARTICLE III The authorized amount of fcapi- tai stock of this Corporation shall be One Million Dollars (S1 ,0000 000) divided into One l Million shares of the parYalue of One Dollar (SL00) each At such time as the Board of Directors may bV resolution direct said capital stock shall be paid into this Corporation, either in cash, services, or by the sale and transfer to it, of real or personal property for tae uses and purposes of said Cor poratiOn, in payment for which shares Of the capital stock of said corporation may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupun and thereby become and be fully paid up and 1 non-assessable, and ill the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Directors as to the value of the property pur- chased shall be conclusive
 ARTICLE " The time of the commencement Of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of 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
 ARTIcLEV The affairs of the corporation shall be conducted by Board of Directors, who shall be elected from among the Stock holders on the First Tuesday 1n May of each year. Until the annual meeting of Stockhold- CTS in 1909 and until their successors have been elected and have qualified, the following named persons shall be. the Directors: James i B. McGOwas, K. k. Durham, Thomas G. Cock Till, s. T. Nesbit. J. H. Harris, George Kumpf and w. N. Collins.
 ARTICLE VI The highest amount of indebt- edness or liability, direct or contingent, to which this Corporation is at any time subject shall be Two Hundred Thousand, Dollars l ($200, ,00000), which amount does not exceed | two-thirds the amount of capital stock.
 ARTICLE VII. The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts of any kind l whatsoever.
 IT. WITNESS WHEREOF, We have hereunto set our hands and seals this 10th day of Apiil, 1908
 W. N COLLINS, [SEALl.
 .GEoBGE KUMPF SEALl. l IL HARRIS. [SEAL1-