The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-20
ment to the memory of John
Wesley Powell.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.

Know ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we.
me uhnerslgned having associated ourselves
Tor the purpose Of forming n corporation under
chapter ii of Title XIII Of the Revised Statutes
u The Territory OF Arizona of 1901 and the Acts
amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto,
do hereby adopt the following Articles OF In.
corporation:
ARTICLE l. The name of the corporation
shall be BLACK DIAMOND COPPER COM.
PANY and its principal place OF business shall
De at NogaleS, Arizona. but other Off es may
be established and maintai ed within or ,ui
Slde OF Arizona ut such places rs the Board of
Directors may designate. where meetings of
stockholders ana directors may be held and
any and all corporate business transacted.
ARTICLE IL: The general nature of the bust
ness proposed TO be transacted is to bore drill
prospect and mine for gold silver, copper
lead zine, brass, iron, steel antimOny, tin
asbestos and all kinds flores metals minerals
AMI precious stones, oils gas and coal and to
MILL convert, prepare for market and other
wise produce and deal in the same and in the
products and by-products thereof; to purchase
or otherwise acquire, own, exchange sell or
otherwise dispose Of mortgage hypoth cate
ana deal In mines, mineral lands OF All kinds
OIL, coal and timber lands, real and personal
estate, water and water rights and To work
explore. operate and develop the same. and
carry on the business of mining in all its
0ranches; To purchase or otherwise acquire
erect. own, operate and dispose of smelling
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mills ana power plants; to construct carry
out, MAINTAIN, improve, manage, work con
troll and suprrintend any roads ways, tram
ways, railways, bridges. reservoirs, water
courses, aqueducts, furnaces, hydraulic works
electrical works, factories, warehouses and
other works and c0nvenences ~ hch NAV he
necessary directly or indirectly in connection
with the objects of the company and 10 con.
tribute lo suDSldlze or otherwise aid or take
part IN any such operations; TO do general
manufacturing and mercantile business. TO
own, handle and control letters patent and in.
ventinns aud shares OF its own capital stock
ana that OF other corporations, and 70 vote any
SHARES OF stock OF other corporations owned by
1t the same as natural person might do; to
o0rrow money and to issue bonds, notes, de.
bentures and other evidences of indebtedness
and secure the payment OF the same by mort.
gage, deed OF trust or otherwise: to act as
agent trustee, broker, or in any other fiduri.
AIRY capacity; and in general To do and perform
such acts and things and transact such bust
ness In connection with the foregoing objects
not inconsistent with law, in any part OF the
world. as the Board of Directors may deem to
the advantage of the corporation.
ARTICLE III. The capital stock OF the cor.
Poratlon shall be Two Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars $3.50 ,O00,0O) divided into
TWO million i've hundred thousand (2,5OO OOO)
shares OF the par value of One Dollar Isl OOl
each, which shall be paid for at such times and
in such manner as the Board of Directors may
designate. All or any portion of the capital
STOCK may be issued in payment for real or
PERSONAL properly, services or any other right
or tnlng OF value necessary for or incidental to
the advancement of the purposes of the cor.
poratloni and when SO issued shall become and
De full-paid, the same as though pail for in
cash at par, and the directors shall be the sole
Judges OF the value of any property, right or
thing acquired in exchange e.. capital stock
NO shares OF capital stock shall be issued unit
fully paid for in the manner and ut the price
prescribed oy the Board OF Directors and there
after the same shall be nnn-asscssable
ARTIcLEIV The con, Ian.' !, mt of the cor
poratiOn shall be the 3 tnese Articles are
filed In accordance with law, and It shall en-.
dure for the full term of twenty 1--we years
thereafter, with the privilege of perpetual sue.
cession as provided by statute.
ARTIcLEV. The affairs of the corporation
shall be conducted by Board OF Directors and
oy such officers as the said board OF Directors
may elect or appoint. The number of directors
snail DC designated by the Bylaws and such
directors shall be elected from among the stock
holders at their annual meeting to be held on
The second Tuesday of March In each year Il |
not legal holiday, but II legal holiday, then
On tue day following. Until the fl rst annual
meeting OF the stockholders and until their
successors have been elected and have quail |
led, the following named persons shall be
directors, Parke Wright Franklin D. L. S'owe.
Iohn /. Roberts, Charles T. Anderson and
Irving l. Fisk
ARTICLE VI: The Board of Directors shall
have power to fill vacancies occurring in the !
Board from any cause
ARTICLE VIE The highest amount of in
iebtedness or liability to which the corpora |
ion may at any one me lbject itself is Two |
hundred Thousand Dollars (s200,00l0O)
ARTICLE VIII: The private property of the
stockholders OF the corporation shall be forever |
Exempt from Is debts or obligations.
IN WITNESS WIZ REoF, we have hereto affixed |
'ur signatures and seals this 10th day of Match |
909.
john T. ROBERTS JR., [SEALl.
S. +. NooN [SEALl.