Mohave County miner., 1910-02-12
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF The Needles Mining and Smelling
 Company.
STATE OF MAINE

STATE OF MAINE. CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF A CORPORA
 TON UNDER THE GENERAL LAW. | The undersigned. officers of corporation organ ized at Portland, Maine, at meeting of the sign | CTS of the articles of agreement therefor, duly called and held at No. 95 Exchange Street, in the | City of Portland, State of Maine on Monday, the sixth day of December, A. D. 1909, hereby certify as follows
 The name of said corporation is THE NEEDLES MINING AND SIMPLIFYING COMPANY. The purposes of said corporation are: To carry on the following business, namely: To carry on the business, and license others to carry on the business, of mining, quarrying, smelting, retin- ing. dressing. .amagamating and preparing for mar ket copper gold, silver zinc, lead and all sorts of ores, metals, mineral substances, and all substi- tutes for, manufactured products and by-prOducts of the same; manufacturing said copper, gold silver zinc, lead, and other ores, metals, mineral substances and all substitutes for manufactured products and by-prOducts of the same, into all sorts of merchantable forms articles and things; producing buying, selling and dealing in, such ores, metals, mineral subs ances, and all substi tutes for, manufactured products and by-products of the same; and to carry on said business in any part of the world where this company may operate;
 To purchase lease or acquire, by license, con- cession, grant otherwise, any lands, mines, ments, rights and privileges, machinery, plants and other effects whatsoever, which this company may from time to time think proper to be acquir- ed for any of its purposes;
 To acquire. own and dispose of. mortgage and convey, any and all property, within or without the State of Maine, real or personal, necessary for, or incidental to, the purposes of this com pany, including patents. patent rights, and rights and property of a similar nature, and stocks, bonds, and evidences of indebtedness of other cor porations fo med for purposes similar to- or in any way auxiliary to, the purposes herein contained: To issue any and all bonds necessary to the business of the corporation, and to secure the same by mortgage, deed of trust, or any other form of conveyance; and to do any and all things incidental to, convenient for, the prosecution of the purposes herein contained, any of them, and not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Maine.
 The amount of capital stock is five million The amount of common stock is five million dollars (S5,OoOOOO)
 The amount of capital stock already paid in is nothing.
 The par value of the shares is five dollars (s5.OO) each.
 The names and residences of the owners of said NAMES RESIDENCES No. OF SHARES
 COMMON. C. A HIGHT, Brookline, Mass, One F. W. RATcHELDER, Boston, Mass, One L. L. HIGHT Portland, Maine One H. P. SwEETsER, Portland, Maine, One S. NJ KIRKPATRICK. Portland, Maine, One Leaving in the treasury, unsubscribed for, 999, 993 shares.
 Said corporation is located at Portland, in the 
 The number of directors is seven, and their names A. Flight, F. W. Batcheder, E. L. Carpenter, P. E. COyle, L. L. Flight, H. P. Sweet ser and s. NJ. Kirkpatrick
 The name of the clerk is L. L. Flight, and his residence is Portland, Maine.
 The undersigned, P. E. Coyle, is president; the undersigned, c. A. Flight, is treasurer: and the undersigned, c. A. Flight, l.. L. Flight, P. E. Coyle, H. P. Sweetser and s. M Kirkpatrick, are a majority of the directors of said corporation. Witress our hands this sixth day of December, A. D. 1909.
 P. E. COYLE, President.
 c. A. HIGHT. Treasurer.
 c. A. HJGHT,
 PIE. COYLE,
 L. L. HIGFT, Directors.
 H. P. SWEETSER,
 S. M. KIRKPATRICK,
 STATE OF MAINE, lcc
 Cumberland, i
 Portland, Dec. 6, A. D. 1909. Then personally appeared c. A. Flight, L. L. Flight, P. E. Coyle H. P. Sweetzer and s. M. Kirkpatrick, and severally made oath to the fore going certificate, that the same is true.
 Before me, c. B. SKILLIN,
 Justice of the Peace.