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fine imported and domestic wines
and liquors and the best Mexican
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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we,
the undersigned, having associated ourselves
for the purpose OF forming corporation under
Chapter ii 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
corporation.
ARTICLE |. The name of the corporation
shall be BLACK DIAMOND COPPER COM
PANY and its principal place OF business shall
be at NOgaeS, 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 II: 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 retneries, saw
mills and power plants; to construct, carry
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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 may 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 a general
manufacturing and mercantile business, to
own, handle and control letters patent and in
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
it 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 hducl-
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
poration shall be Two Million Five Hundred
| Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000,00) divided into
two million five hundred thousand (25OO.OOO)
shares of the par value OF One Dollar Isl OO)
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
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 OF
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.
ARTICLEIV: 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.
ARTIcLEV. The affairs of the corporation
shall be conducted by Board of Directors and
by such officers as the said Board OF Directors
may elect or appoint. The number OF directors
shall be designated by the Bylaws and sucf
directors shall be elected from among the stock
holders at their annual meeting to be held OF
the second Tuesday of March in each year !
not legal holiday, but II a legal holiday, theI
on the day following Until the first annua
meeting OF the stockholders and until thei
successors have been elected and have quail
fed, the following named persons shall b.
directors, Parke Wright, Franklin D. L. Stowe
John T. Roberts, Charles 7. Anderson anC
Irving L. Fisk
ARTICLE VI: The Board of Directors shall
have power to fill vacancies occurring in tn
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 Tw
Hundred Thousand Dollars (S200, 100000.
ARTICLE Wiz The private property of tn
stockholders of the corporation shall be fOreve
exempt from its debts or obligations.
In WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereto afixe
our signatures and seals this 10th day OF March
1909.
JOHN T. ROBERTS JR., SEAL.
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