The Arizona sentinel., 1908-07-15
Articles of Incorporation of Rouse Gold and Copper Com

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 Know All Men By These Presents: That VIC, the undeySigned, have this day associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming corporation under the laws Of the Territory of Arizona, and for that purpose do adopt the following charter:
 Article
 The name Of this corporation shall be Rouse Gold and Copper Company.
 a Article2
 This Company shall keep an office at Rouse, County of Yuma, Territory Of Arizona, but thls Corporation is organized to carry on business in all states, districts and territories of the United States, and will have a princi- pal office and place Of business at the City of Los Angeles, in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, and at such other places as the B ard of Directors may determine. at any and all of which places meetings of the stockholders and Board Of Directors may be held in accordance with the Bylaws of this Corporation.
 Article g.
 The purposes for which this corporation Is formed are:
 l. To locate, buy, lease or otherwise acquire
  claims mineral rights, mining property and town and mill sites, and operate and develop the same; to acquire, bnlld. own and operate mills, crusherS. concentrating machinery and manufacturing plants for the purpose Of working, milling, assRying. concentrating, smelling md reducing all kinds Of ores and mineral substances, and extracting minerals therefrom by any and all processes, and to work and manufacture any and all metals and products Of metals.
 II. To build and maintain, OVID, acquire and operate dams, waterways, wells, reser- voirS, wagon roads and tramways in connec- tion with any and all town sites, mills, smelters or mining property owned or con troIled by this corporation.
 III. To buy, lease or otherwise acquire, and 10 sell, cucumber or otherwise dispose Of and 10 improve, lands, franchises, rights of way and other real estate of every kind and na- ture whatsoever, and any and ail interests of every kind in and to such properties.
 NV. To engage in the business of buying and selling liquid fuel oils, petroleum. min eral gas, asphaltum, bitumen, bituminous rock and other mineral and hydro-carbOn substances and products of all such substan- ces, and in boring for, pumping, producing, refining. distilling, treating, manufacturing, piping, carrying. handling, storing, and in all ways dealing in and with any and all such substances.
 V. To buy, sell, acquire, hold and hypoth- ecate shares of stock bonds and other eviden- ces Of Indebtedness of any incorporated com pany or companies.
 VI. To do and perform each and all of the acts hereInbefore specified as the main and principal purpose for whicht this corporation Is organized, and also as incident and auxil- tary to each of the other purposes hereinbe- fore specified, and generally to engage in any and all kinds Of business that @ natural per son might or could in the United States or in any other part Of the world.
 Article 4 The amount Of capital stock of this corpor- alton is S ,O0OOO0co. divided into lO0.GOO shares of the par value of SI0OO each. and said capi- tal stock shall be paid up at the date of issu- ance. or at such time as the Board of Direc- tors may designate, in money, property, labor, or any other valuable right or thing, and the judgment Of the Board of Directors or managing officers as to the value thereof shall be conclusive.
 4-.. Article 5 The highest amount of indebtedness or IT, l ability to which this corporation shall sub ject itself at any oue time shall not exceed | SSOO,OOO.OO
 Article 6. The private property of the stock holders of this corporation shall be and is hereby made forever exempt from all liability for the | debts or obligations of this corporation.
 Article7.
 The canital stock of this corporation shall | he and is hereby made forever non-assessable by this corporation for any purpose.
 Article g.
 The commencement Of this corporation shall be the date Of the filing of these Arti- cIes accol ding to law, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter, with privilege of renewal for like periods per Petually.
 Article g.
 The affairs Of this corporation shall be con- dueted by Board Of Directors composed Of nine stockholders, to be first elected on the first day of May, 1908. and on May lst of each year thereafter, and until such Directors are elected. c. A. Markwell, Eugene c. Webster, Thomas Patch, c. NJ. Ottis, J. C. Denton, D. F.. Ferguson, John Clarbough, Russ Avery End Samuel H. French shall act as such Di- Tcctors-
 set our hands and seals this 2Oth day Of April lp06.
 Eugene c. Webster (SeaD
 C. 4. Markwell (SeaD
 Russ Avery (Seal)
 G. Nj. Otis (SeaD State Of California,
 County of Los Angeles.
 On this 10th day Of April, 1908, before me, G. l.. Whitman. Notary Public in and for the County of Los Angeles, Sta.c of California residing therein. duly commissioned ana sworn, personally appeared Eugene C. Web ster, C. A. Markwell, Russ Avery and G. M. uttis. known to be tine persons whose names ara subscribed to the foregoing instrument and they acknowledged to me that they ex- ecuted inc same for the purposes and eonSid eration therein expressed.
 In Witness Whereof. I have hereunio set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year first above written. iSeal Ci. l.. Whitman, Notary Public in and for the County Of Los Angeles, State Of California.
 MycommisSion expires August lst. laOS. Territory of Arizona, County of Yuma. S.-- l. J. NJ PolhamuS, County Recorder in and for the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is full. true and correct copy of the Articles of Incorpora- iion of the Bousc Gold and Copper Company, as filed for record in my office on the 21th day cf April, A. n. 1908, and ss appears of record in book Of Articles s--- Page ct seq. Rec ord, of Yuma County aforesaid.