The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-20
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
or 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 II corporate n under the laws of the
Territory OF Arizona, aud to that end make
the following statement:
FIRST: The names OF the cOrporatOrs are
Jahn Henderson and l.. NJ. SalHzar and the
name OF the Cnrporat on sha be LlSrA
81 ANCA COPPER OMPANY. The principal
place within the Territory Of Arizona in which
the business Of Sid Corporation is To be trans
acted is NOgales, santa Cruz County, Arizona,
and the Corporation may establish branch
offices either with II or without the Territory
Of Arizona wher- meetings of the Board OF
Directors may be held.
rEcoND The general nature OF the business
proposed to be transacted by this Corporation
Is as follows, to-wit: Acquire mines by pur-
chase, location or otherwise, work and operate
the same, buy, erect and operate al kinds OF
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, mineral
lands, oil, gas, coal, shale, asphatum petro-
leum, asbesto-, 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 United states and the Territory
/ of Arizona.
THIRD: The authorized amount Of capital
| stock OF this Corporation shall be Five Hun
bred Thousand Dollars ($500,0v) divided into
| five hundred thousand shares OF the par value
| of tne Dollar ($D each. At such times as the
Board Of Directors may by resolution direct,
said capital stock shall be i'd into this Cor
poration, either in cash or by the sale and
transfer 70 I, OF real or personal property for
| the uses and purposes OF said Corporation, in
! fnr tuh har nj nj al SfO
of said Corporation may be issued, and the
capital stock so issued shall thereupon 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 Direc
tors as ~ the value of the property purchased
shall be conclusive.
FOURTH: The time of the commencement Of
the affairs Of tn S orporation shall be the date
OF the filing OF Gel tined copy OF these Articles
of Incorporation in the office OF the territorial
auditor, and OF the recorder OF santa Cru;
County, and the termination thereof shall b.
twenty-five years thereafter.
FIFTH: The affairs of this Corporation shall
be conducted by Board OF three Directors
and the following named shall constitut,
the Board OF Directors until thei
successors are elected: John Henderson
L. NJ. Salazar. William Kemp Thereafter til,
Board Of Directors shall be elected from amoni
the st ckholders on the first Monday in Febru
AIRY of each year. The officers OF said Corpora
tion until their successors are ell cited shall be
John tlenderso President; William Kemp
Vice. Preside t, and l.. NJ. Saazar, Secretar
and Treasurer.
SIXTH: The high st amount ofindebte' mes
or liability, direct or co ngent. to which thi
Corporation is at any time subject shall b
o Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar
($250,O0O), which amount does not exceed two
thirds the amount of capital stock.
SEVENTH: The private property of the stock
} holders of this rpOratiOn shall be eXemp
from corporate ebts oi any kind whatsoever
In WITNESS WHEREOF, We have hereunto sc
, our hands and seals this Sth day of February
1909,
JOHN HENDERSON, [SEAL
L. NJ. SALAZAR, [SEALl.