The oasis., 1909-04-03
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we,
the undersigned, having associated ourselves
for the purpose of forming corporation under
Chapter III of Title XIII OF the Revised Statutes
OF the Territory OF Arizona of 1901 and the Acts
amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto,
do hereby adopt the following Articles of In
corporations
ARTICLE l. The name of the corporation
shall be BLACK DIAMOND COPPER COM
PANY and its principal place of business shall
be at NogaleS, Arizona. but other offices may
be established and maintained within or out.
side OF Arizona at such places as the Board of
Directors may designate, where meetings of
stockholders and 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, zinc, brass, iron, steel, anthony, tin,
asbestos and all kinds of ores, metals, minerals
and 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, hypothecate
and 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
branches; to purchase or otherwise ACQUIRE,
erect, own, operate and dispose of smelling
and ore reduction works, oil refneries, saw
HILLS dlu power pldHlS5 10 construct, carry
out, maintain, improve manage, work, con-
troll and superintend any roads, ways tram
ways, railways, bridges. reservoirs, water
courses, aqueducts, furnaces, hydraulic works,
electrical works, factories, warehouses and
other works and conYeniences which NAV be
necessary directly or indirectly, in connection
with the objects OF the company and to con-
tribute to, substitute or otherwise aid or take
part in any such operations; to do general
manufacturing and mercantile business, to
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ventions and shares of its own capital stock
and that OF other corporations, and 20 vote any
shares of stock of other corporations owned by
1t the same as natural person might do; to
borrow 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 fiduci-
airy capacity; and in general to do and perform
such acts and things and transact such bust
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
poration shall be Two Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars (S2, 500,00000) divided into
two million five hundred thousand (2,5OO0OO)
shares OF the par value OF One Dollar ($100)
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 property, services or any other right
or thing of value necessary for or incidental to
the Advancement OF the purposes OF the cor
poration, and when so issued shall become and
be full-paid, the same as though paid 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 for capital stock.
No shares of capital stock shall be issued until
fully paid for in the manner and at the price
prescribed by The Board OF Directors and there
after the same shall be worcestershire.
ARTICLE ": The commencement of the cor
poration shall be the day these Articles are
filed in accordance with law, and it shall en-
dure for the full term OF twenty-five years
thereafter, with the privilege OF perpetual sue
cession as provided by statute.
ARTICLE v The affairs of the corporation
shall be conducted by Board of Directors and
by such officers as the said Board OF Directors
shall be 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 If
not legal holiday, but if legal holiday, then
on the day following. Until the first annual
meeting OF the stockholders and until their
successors have been elected and have quail
fed, the following named persons shall be
directors Parke Wright, Franklin D. L. Stowe
John I. Roberts, Charles 7. 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 VII: The highest amount of in
debtedness or liability to which the corpora
ton may at any one time subject itself is Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars $780, 100000.
ARTICLE VIII: The private property OF the
stockholders of the corporation shall be forever
exempt from its debts or obligations.
In WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereto affixed
our signatures and seals this 10th day of March
1909.
JOHN T. ROBERTS JR., [sEAL.
S. f. Noon, [SEALl.