The oasis., 1909-02-27
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE LISTA BLANCA 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 n under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement:
 FIRST: The names of the cOrporators are John Henderson and l.. M. SAlAZar and the name Of the Curporat on shall be LlSfA BLANCA COPPER OMpANY. The principal place within the Territory of Arizona in which the business of said Corporation is tO be trans acted is Nogales, santa Cruz County, Arizona, and the Corporation may establish branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona where meetings of the Board Oi Dsrectors may be held.
 SECOND The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this Corporation is as follows toWit: Acquire mines by pdr- chase location or otherwise work and opera tp the same, buy, erect and operate all kinds Ol machinery for mining and reducing ores To make contracts; to purchase, lease, bond locate or otherwise acquire, own, exchange sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal prOperty mines, mining claims, oil lands coal lands m! m!neral lands, oil. gas coal, shale, asphaltum, petro- leum, asbestos salt water and water rights and machinery, and to work, mine, explore, operate and develop the same; and in general to do all things necessary to the proper con duct of the business of this Corporation in the Territory and elsewhere not inconsistent with tn laws of the Uniied states and the Territory of Arizona
 THIRD The authorized amount of capital stock of this Corporation shall be Five Hun drcd Thousand Dollars (S50O,0U) divided into five hundred thousand shares of the par value of Une Dollar ($D each. Al such times as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be D i'd into this tor poration either in cash or by the sale and transfer to {, Of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said Corporations in f,f fhn Al of said Corporation may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereuppn and thereby become and be fully paid up and nom | assessable, and in the absence of actual fraud ] in the transaction the judgment of the Direc- ! tors as t0 the value of the property purehased 1 shall be conclusive.
 FOURTH: The time of the commencement of l the affairs Of tn orporation shall be the date of the filing of a certified copy oi these Articles of Incorporation in the office or the territorial auditor, and of the recorder of Santa Cruz l County and the termination thereof shall be ! twenty-five years thereafter.
 i FIFTH The affairs of this Corporation shall l be conducted by Board of three Directors and the following named shall constitute 1 the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: John Henderson | L. NJ, Salazar, William Kemp Thereafter the | Board of Directors shall be elected from among ' the stockholders on the first Monday in Febru l ary of each year. The officers ol said Corpora | tion until their successors are elected shall be i John Henderson, President; William Kemp | Nice.President, and L. NJ. Saazar, Secretary and Treasurer.
 SIXTH; The high st amount ofindebte 4nesS or liability, direct or co ngent, to which thi' l Corporation is at any time subject shall bt To Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar, i (S250,000), which amount does not exceed two thirds the amount of capital stock
 SEVENTH: The private property of the stock holders of this c operation shall be exemp from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Wa have hereunto SC our hands and seals this Sth day of February l 1909.
 JOHN HENDERSON, [SEALl | l.. NJ. SALAZAR, fSEALl