The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-04-12
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 BE TT KNOWN, That we, Daniel M
 Lynch, Richard T. O'Donne1 and Al
 bert G. Shaw, do hereby associate our
 selves together and form a corpora
 tion under Chapter II of Title XIII,
 Revised Statutes of Arizona, 1901, and
 acts amendatory thereto, and adopt
 the following Articles of incorporation
 ARTICLE I-The name of the Cor
 poration is ARIZONA COP
 PER Company and it's principal place of transacting business in Arizona is
 Clifton. Offices may be established,
 business transacted and meetings of stockholders and directors held at such places within or outside of Ari- zona as the Bylaws of the Company shall provide.
 ARTICLE 1.-The general nature of the business proposed to be tran sacted is to make contracts; to pur- chase. lease, option, locate or other wise acquire, own, exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage hypothecate and deal in mines, minin g claims, mineral lands, coal lands, oil lands, timber lands, water and water rights and other property, both real and personal, and to work, explore, Op- crate and develop the same, and to deal in the products and by-products thereof; to purchase, lease or other wise acquire, erect, own, operate and sell smelling and other ore reduction works, oil refineries, saw mills, power plants, railroads and tramways to lead from the company's principal works, and steam, electric and motor rail- roads to serve as common carriers and otherwise outside the territory of Ari- ZOna; to do a general manufacturing and mercantile business; to own, han dle and control letters patent and in- ventiOnS, to own, cancel and reissue shares of it's own capital stock and to own and votes hares of other corpora tions; to issue bonds, notes, and oth- CT evidences of indebtedness and to secure the payment of the same by deed of trust, or otherwise; to act as agent, trustee, broker, or in any other fiduciary capacity, and to borrow and loan money; and in gener- al to do and perform such acts and things and transact such business, not with law, in any part of the world, as the Board of Directors may deem to the advantage of the cor pOration.
 ARTICLE III-The amount of the Capital Stock of the Cor vided into Six hundred thousand shares of the par value of five dollars, each, which shall be paid in at such time as the Board of Directors may designate, in cash, real or personal property, services, lease, option to pur chase, or any other valuable right or thing, for the uses and purposes of the and all shares of capital Stock, when issued in exchange there for, shall thereupon and thereby be- come and be full-paid the same as oh for in ot and shall be non-assessable forever, and the judgment of the Directors as to the value of any property, right or thing acquired in exchange for Capi tai Stock shall be conclusive.
 ARTICLE IV-The time of the con- of the corporation shall be he day these Articles are filed in ac- cordance with law, and the termina- ton thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter, with privilege of renewal and right of perpetual succession as now provided by law.
 ARTICLE V-The affairs of this shall be conducted by a Board of not less than three nor more han fifteen Directors, by whom a | President and Vice-President shall be elected and Secretary and Treasur er appointed. The Directors shall be elected by and from the Stockholders | ,n the first Monday in March of each | year. Until their successors are cleo | ed and qualified, the following named | persons shall be the Directors: Daniel | VI. Lynch, Richard T. O'Donnell, Ar ,hibald Morrison, Benjamin F. Taylor, | Albert G. Shaw, Walter J. Webb and | Stephen w. Dorsey
 ARTICLE VI-The Directors shall | ldopt Bylaws for the government of | he corporation and may amend the | same. They shall have power to fill | vacancies occurring in the Board from | my cause, and to appoint from among | neir number an Executive Committee | which, to the extent provided by reso- ution or by the said Bylaws shall lave and exercise the powers granted | he Directors by these Articles.
 ARTICLE VII-The highest amount if Indebtedness or liability to which he corporation is at any time to sub- ect itself is Two Million Dollars.
 ARTICLE VIII-The private prop rty of the Stockholders of the corpor- .tion shall be forever exempt from orporate debts of any kind whatso- yer.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, WE have ereunto affixed our signatures this 9th day of February, 1912.
 DANIEL M. LYNCH, (SeaD |
 RICHARD T. O'DONNELL (SeaD
 ALBERT G. SHAW, (SeaD TATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
 IS.
 Before me, L. G. D. Storer, Notary 'ublic in and for the county and state foresaid, on this day personally ap- cared Daniel M. Lynch, Richard T. and Albert G. Shaw, known Q me to be the same persons who igned the foregoing instruments, and acknowledged to me that they eve uted the same for the uses and pur- oses therein mentioned.
 Given under my hand and seal of ffice this 20th day of February, 1912.
 My commission will expire on the 1 drnr laf Nnln,