Mohave County miner., 1913-04-19

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we the undersigned, have this day associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of Arizona, and for that purpose do adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:
 Article I. The name of this corporation shall be HER CULES MINING AND MILLING COMPANY Article H. This company shall keep an office at Phoenix, Arizona, and may keep other principal offices and places of business at Minneapolis, State of Min nesota, and at such other places the board of directors may establish, at which place places all incorporators'. stock holders and directors meetings may be held. and all corporate business may be transacted.
 Article H.
 The amount of the capital stock of this cor poration shall be Eight hundred thousand ($SOO, 0O0) dollars divided into Eight hundred thousand (S00,000) shares of the par value of One Dollar each, and said capital stock shall be paid up at the date of issuance, or at such time the board of directors may designate, in money, property labor, or any other valuable right thing. and the judgment of the board of directors or manag- ing officers as to the value thereof shall be con- elusive.
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows to-wit; to make contracts, to purchase, lease, bond, locate, or otherwise acquire own, exchange sell. or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property. mining
  asphaltum, petroleum, asbestos salt, water and water rights and machinery and to work mine and explore, operate and develop the same and in general do all things necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this corporation in the territory and elsewhere not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the ter ritory of Arizona.
 Article w.
 The affairs of this corporation shall be con- ducted by board of directors consisting of not less than five (5) nor more than seven @ stock hp1I rhpe eh,n L, from the stockholders as the bylaws shall pro- vide and until the next annual meeting of said corporation to be held on the first Tuesday after the first day of January, 1909 the following named persons shall constitute the board of di- rectors until their successors elected and shall have qualified, viz: Oretto P. Brown, August Ekman, Andrew Anderson, James Nelson, and John Bjorkman The annual meetings of this corporation shall be held the first Tuesday after the first day of January in each year. The officers of this corporation shall be pres- dent, vice-president, secretary and a treasur- CT, and until the next annual meeting in January in 1909, Oretto P. Brown shall be president August Ekman shall be vice. president Andrew Anderson shall be treasurer and James Neson shall be secretary. each of whom shall hold his of- nee until the next annual meeting and until his successor shall have been elected
 Article VI.
 The highest amount of liability that this cor poration shall subject itself any one time shall not exceed Fifty thousand dollars (5O,OOO OOS)
 Article VII
 This corporation is formed to endure for twenty hve years from and after its Articles are duly executed but it's charter rights may be renewed before its charter expires from time to time for periods not exceeding twenty-five years at the tlme perpetually.
 Article VIII The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be and is hereby made exempt forever from all liability for it's debts or obligations.
 Article TX.
 The capital stock of this corporation shall be and is hereby made forever non-assessable by thls corporation for any purpose
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this llth day of July 1908
 JAMES NELSON (SeaD
 ANDREW ANDERSON (SeaD
 AUGUST EKMAN (Sean Signed. sealed and delivered
 in presence of
 L. L. LONGBRAEE
 A. M. GUSTAFSON STATE OF MINNESOTA, icc
 County of Henuepin. 'o'
 On this l1th day of July 1908 hefore mo a Notary Public in and for said county and state personally appeared James Nelson, Andrew Anderson, and August Ekman, known to me to be the persons who subscribed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that tbey executed the same for the purposes and considera- tions therein expressed
 L. L LONGBRAKE,
 Notary Public, Hennepin . County, Minn. My commission expires Aug. lst, 1914 First insertion March l5-19 April