The oasis., 1908-06-27
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 -OF THE SONORA METAL PRODUCING COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS That we, the undersigned do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming corpora ton under the laws Of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end da certify and declare:
 ARTICLE l. The names ot the corporators arc Allen r. Bird and Dane D. Bird, and the name of the Corporation shall be
 SONORA METAL PRODUCING COMPANY The principal place of business and the regis tered office of the Corporation in Arizona shall be at NogaleS, Arizona, and the Corporation may have such other offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona as may be established by the Board of Directors, at which offices meetings of the Board Of Directors may be held
 ARTICLE II. The general nature of the busi- ness proposed to be transacted by this Corpora tion is as follows, tC-wit: To make contracts, to purchase, lease, option, locate, or otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell, or otherwise dls pose of, pledge, mortgage, hypotheeate ana deal III mines, mining claims mineral lanus, coal lands, oil lands, timber lands, real estate, water and water rigats, and to work, explore, operate and develop the same, and to extract any and all minerals oils and gas thereirom and deal in the products and by-products thereof; to purchase. lease, or otherwise ae- quire, erect, own, operate or sell smeltlng ana O.. reduction works, oil refineres, saw mills and power plants; to do q general real estate, manufacturing and mercantile business; to own, handle and control letters patent and in ventions and shares of it's own capital stock and that of other corporations, and 10 vote any stock owned by it the same as natural person might do to issue bonds, notes, debentures and other evidences of indebtedness and secure payment of the same by mortgage, deed oi trust or Otherwise to act as agent, trustee, broker, or in any other fiducialy capacity, and to borrow and loan money; to cultivate, 1rrl- gate and farm arable land and market the products thereof; to buy, sell, breed and rear horses, cattle and other live stock; and III gen eral to do and perform such acts and things and transact such business, not inconsistent with law, in any part of the world, as the Board oi Directors may deem to the advantage Of the Corporation.
 ARTICLE II. The authorized amount of cap ital stock of this Corporation shall Ue Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2O0OOO) divided into Two Hundred Thousand (20O,000) Shares of the par value of One Dollar (sl.OO) each. At such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock snail be paid into this Corporation either in cash, services, or by the sale and transfer to IL of real or personal property for the uses and pur- poses of said Corporation, In payment of which shares of the capital stock Ot said Cor poration may be issued and the capital stock 50 issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non. ass9ssable, and in the absence Oi actual fraud Tn the trans action the judgment of the Directors as to the value Of the property purchased shall be conc lusiVe.
 ARTICLE w. The time of the commencement of this Corporation shall be the date of filing these Articles i'll the office of the Recorder of Santa Cruz County, and certified copy ot the same in the office of the Territorial Auditor, and the termination thereof shall be twenty five years thereafter
 ARTICLE V. The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of Three DireC- tors, and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected A. C. Waters, Lawrence Ballou, G. N. Fletcher. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the Stockholders on the first Monday in october of each year. The officers of said Corporation until their successors are elected shall be- A. C. Waters, President; c. NJ Fletcher, Vice President; l Lawrence Ballou, Secretary A. C. Waters. | Treasurer
 1 ARTICLE VI The highest amount of indebt- edness or liability, direct or contingent to
 which this corporation is at any time subject shall be One Hundred Thousand Dollars | ($l00000), which does not exceed tW0-thirds
 the amount of the capital stock.
 ARTICLE VII. The private property of the stockholders of this Corporation shall be exempt from it's corporate debts of any kind | whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our ands and Seals this 25th day of June, 1 1908. ALLEN T. BIRD, lSEAL.1
 DANE D. BIRD, I5EAL.]