The oasis., 1908-08-01
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
METAL PRODUCING COMPANY

KNOW ALL MEN by THESE PRESENTS That se
the undersigned do hereby associate ourselves
together for the purpose of forming a corpors.
ton under the laws of the Territory OF Arzona.
and To that end do certify and declare:
ARTICLE |. The names of the corporators are
Allen 7. 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 III. The general nature OF the bust
ness proposed to be transacted by this CorporA.
ton is as follows, tO-wit: To make contracts,
TO purchase, lease, option, locate, or otherwise
acquire, own, exchange, sell, or otherwise dis.
pose OF, pledge, mortgage, hypotheeate and
deal IN mines, mining claims, mineral lands.
coal lands, oil lands, timber lands, real estate,
water and water riguts, and To work explore
operate and develop the same, and to extract
any aud all minerals, oils and gas therefrom
and deal in the products and by-produets
thereof; To purchase. lease, or otherwise ae.
quire, erect, own, operate or sell smelling and
Ga reduction works, oil retnerieS, saw mills
and power plants; To do a general real estate
manufacturing and mercantile business; to
own, handle and control letters patent and in.
ventions and shares of its own capital stock
stock owned by IL the same as IA natural person
might do; TO issue bonds. notes debentures
ana other evidences of Indebtedness and secure
payment OF the same by mortgage, deed OF
trust or otherwise; to act AS agent, trustee,
broker, or in any other fducialy capacity, and
To borrow and loan money; To cultivate, irri-
gate and farm arabic land and market the
products thereof; 10 buy, sell, breed and reaT
horses cattle and other live stock and in gen
eral TO do and perform such acts and things
and transact such business, not inconsistent
with law, III any part of the world, as the
Board OF Directors may deem to the advantage
of the Corporation.
ARTICLE III. The authorized amount OF cap
ital stock OF this Corporation shall be Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars (S20O, OOO), divided
into Two Hundred Thousand GOO 000) Shares Of
the par value of One Dollar t$lOO) each. At
such time as the Board OF Directors may by
resolution direct, said capital stock shall 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 OF said Cor.
poration may be issued, aud the capital stock
so issued shall thereupOn and thereby become
and be fully paid up and non asssssable, and
In the absence of actual fraud III the trans
action the Judgment of the Directors as TO the
value OF the property purchased shall be
conclusive
ARTICLE ~. The time OF the commencement
OF this Corporation shall be the date OF iiiing
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Santa Cruz County, and a certified copy OF ibe
same in the office oil the Territorial Auditor,
and the termination thereof shall be twenty.
five years thereafter.
ARTICLE V. The affairs of this Corporation
shall be conducted by a Board of Three DireC.
tors, aud the following named shall constitute
the Board OF Directors until their successors are
elected: A. G. Waters, Lawrence Ballou, q. y.
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. G. Waters,
President; e. NJ. Fletcher, Vice President;
Lawrence Ballou, Secretary; 4. C. Waters,
Treasurer.
ARTICLE VI. The highest amount OF indebi.
| edness or liability, direct or contingent, TO
which this corporation is at any time subject
shall be One Hundred Thousand Dollars
| (Sl0OO00) which does not exceed two-thiTds
the amount OF the capital stock.
ARTICLE VII. The private property OF the
stockholders OF this Corporation shall be
exempt from its corporate debts of any kind
whatsoever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto SCI
our hands and Seals this 18th day of june
1908. ALLEN T. BIRD, [SEAL.l
DANE ID. BIRD, SEAL
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