The oasis., 1908-05-09
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 -OF THE CALUMET AND SONORA COPPER COMPANY
OF THE

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 statements ARTICLE l. The names of the corporators are J. II. Harris, George Kumpf and w N. Collins, and the name Ol the Corporation shall be CALUMET AND SONORA COPPER 0NPANY. The principal place within the Territory of Arizona in which the business of said Corpora ton IS to be transacted is Nogales, Santa Ilruz County, Arizona, and the Corporation may establish an office at Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri and such other branch offices as 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 tion Is as follows, to-wit: To buy and sell stock in this and other cor porations; to make contracts: tO purchase, lease, bond locate or otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage hyp)theeate 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 and elsewhere, not inconsistent with the laws
 
 Arizona.
 ARTICLE III The authorized amount ofeapi- tal stock of this Corporation shall be One Million Dollars ($l 900 ,O00) divided into One Million shares of the par valle of One Dollar ($l.00) each. At such time as the Board of Directors may ny resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this Corporation, either in cash seryi es, 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 is, ued, and the capital stock so issued shall Jhereu pom 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 us 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- p0ration 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.
 ARTICLE V The affairs of the corporation shall be conducted by fs Board of Directors, who shall be elected from among the Stock holders on the First Tuesday in May of each year. Until the annual meeting of Stockhold- CTS in l9J9 and until their successors have been elected and have qualified, the following named persons shall be the Directors: James B. McGowan, E. 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 ubject shah be Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($20o Q0O.l0), 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 whatsoever
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have hereunto set our hands and seals this 10th day Of Aplil 1908.
 w. N COLLINS [SEALl.
 GEORGE KUMPF, [SEALl.
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