Mohave County miner., 1913-03-08
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE Grand Canyon Gold Dredging
 Company.

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 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that we, whose names are hereunto affixed desiring to form corporation under the laws of the State of Arizona. do hereby associate ourselves together tor that purposes and adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:
 ARTICLE 1.
 The names of the incorporators are Mark w. Musgrove. kngman, Arizona. Nicholas P. Bond, Continental Building, Baltimore, Md, and James A. Roberts, 257 Broadway, New York,
 The name of the corporation shal' be the GRAND CANYON COLD DREDGING COM PANY.
 The principal place in which the business of the corporation is to be transacted IS at the general offices of the company at KINGMAN. ARIZONA; the corporation shall have a branch office in the City and State of New without the State of Arizona, as may be here after established by the Board of Directors, at any of which branch offices all meetings of stockholders and the Board of Directors may be held.
 ARTICLE w.
 The general nature of the business to be transacted by the corporation is as follows:
 To make contracts; to purchase lease, bond sell, improve, develop and operate mines, min. ing cl Lims mining properties or rights there. in: mineral lands. oil gas, coal shale, asphalt III. rights and machinery; to work. mine, explore, dredge, operate and develop the same. aud to pledge. mortgage or otherwise deal in the same or any leases, options, or bonds thereon; To quarry, smelt refine. dredge, wash, anal gamate and prepare for market ore, metal and mineral substances of all kinds. and to carry on any other operation which may seem con- ducive to any of the company'S objects; to buy. sell manufacture and deal in minerals plants. machinery, implements, conveniences provisions and things capable of being used in connection with mining operations or required by wOrkmen and others employed by the com pany.
 To buy, construct, lease, sell. convey, main tain, improve manage, work. control and Su perintend any roads, canals. bridges. ways, reservoirs water courses. corrals, pipe lines, tramways, electric or other railroads, in so far as it may be lawful so to do to buy, construct, lease, sell convey, maintain. improve manage, control and Superintend furnaces, SmelterS, concentrators, mills crushing works, hydraulic works. factorleS, warehouses and other con venences which may seem directly or in directly conductive to any of the objects of the corporation, and to contribute to, subsdize or otherwise aid or take part in any such opera tionS.
 To take acquire, own hold, sell, lease, ex- change, mortgage, pledge improve and other wise deal in real estate, townSiteS and divi- Sons, lots or subdivisions thereof. and to erect thereon and lease, sell or convey houses, stores or other buildings. and to make and maintain all other necessary or desirable improvements in connection herewith; also to purchase. sell. exchange and otherwise deal in all kinds of personal property. merchandise goods and chatte s; to construct, operate and maintain any and all power plants which may be deemed necessary or O, otherwise beneficial to the oper- ations of the corporation. and 10 buy sell or otherwise dispose of any and all power of any | character or description.
 ro do all things incident to or advantageous in the carrying on of any or all Of the objects or purposes above set forth.
 To issue bonds. debentures or other form of Q nhlipQtinnS hvnnthp- cate the same, ana to secure the payment of the same by mortgage or otherwise upon all or any of the properties of the corporation. To make any and all contracts, acquire and | transfer any and all species of property, and to possess the same power in such respect as pri. vate individuals now enjoy. and in general to of the business of the corporation in the State of Arizona and elsewhere not inconsistent | with the laws of the United States and the State of Arizona.
 To hold. purchase. buy and otherwise ac. quire. and to sell, exchange, mortgage, pledge and otherwise deal in the bonds mortgages, notes, debentuIes. shares of capital stock and other securities and obligations of any private corporations, and also to receive. collect and otherwise dispose of interest, dividends or in come from any of the properties held. owned or acquired by the company, and to exercise in | respect of all such bonds, mortgages, deben- lures. noteS shares of stock or other securities and all other obligations all the rights, powers and privileges of individual owners thereof, | including the right to vote any shares of stock | held by it to the same extent that natural person might or could do, and generally to have all the rights. powers and privileges to do any and all things incident and advantageous | to the carrying out of any of the objects and purposes hereinbefore mentioned. | To sell or issue all or any part of it's capital | stock, or any bonds, debentures or other evi- | dences of indebtedness authorized by it's Board | of Directors, in payment for the goodwill, rights, business, personal property, real estate | or leases thereon, of any person, firm, aSso- | citation cOrDOratlOn. and the iu0ppment Of l it's Board of Directors as to the value of such good twill, rights, business, property, real estate or leases thereon, shall in the absence | of fraud, be conclusive.
 To guarantee the payment of dividends or | interest on any shares, stocks debentureS or other securities issued by, or any other con tract or obligation of. any corporation when | ever proper or necessary for the business of | this company, and upon such terms and con- | ditions and in such manner as may be pre- Scribed by the Board of Directors To purchase, hold or reissue and sell the shares of it's capital stock; to remunerate any person, persons or corporation for services | rendered, or to be rendered, in placing or as- | sisting to place, or guaranteeing the placing of any of the shares Of the companys capital | stock, or any debenture, bond or other security | of the company, or for services rendered in or about the formation or promotion of the com pany, or the selection and procurement of di- I rectors. or the conduct of it's business all upon such terms as the Board of Directors may de | termine.
 | To conduct business Tn any of the states ter. | ritories, colonies or possessionso of the United States, in the District of Columbia, and in any | and all foreign countries; to have one or more | offices therein, and to therein hold, purchase, mortgage and convey real and personal prop erty, without limit as to amount but always subject to local laws.
 The foregoing paragraphs shall be construed as objects, purposes and powers, and it is the | intention that the foregoing specific objects. purposes and powers In any paragraph enum' erated, except where otherwise clearly in dicated. shall not be limited or restricted by