Mohave County miner., 1913-07-19
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

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 BET KNOWN that we the slgners hereof oo associate ourselves together and hereby form d corporation under the laws of Arizona and hereby adopt the following articles of incor poration
 Article l.
 The name of the corporation is THE GOLD- FIN STAR MINING AND REDUCTION COM PANY.
 ARTICLE II.
 The principal place of business of the Cor poratiOn in Arizona is kingman, Mohave County, and offices may be established and maintained at Birmingham. State of Alabama, and such other places within or without the United states as the Board of Directors may designate.
 ARTICLE Ill.
 The purposes for which this corporation is formed are as follows: To acquire by pur chase lease, option, locate or otherwise ac- quire. own, exchange, sell or otherwise dis pose of, pledge mortgage, hypothecate, and deal in mines, mining claims. mineral lanC CS coal lands, oil lands, timber lands real estate, water and water rights. and to work, explore. operate and develop the same, and to extract any and all minerals. oils gases therefrom, and deal in the products and by products thereof To purchase. lease or otherwise ac- quire, erect own, operate or sell smelling and ore reduction works, and power plants Also to buy and sell all kinds of merchandise, ma chinery and mining equipment and to do all things and acts necessary and convenient to the development of mines and mineral lands, and to make the roducts therefrom market able and to sell all kinds of property both real and personal.
 ARTICLE w. The amount of the authorized capital stock of the corporation is Ole Million Dollars, di- vlded into One Million Shares of the par value of One Dollar each which shall be pad at such times as the Board of Directors may designa'e e, | in cash, real or personal property, contracts, services, or any other valuable right or thing for the uses and purposes of the corporation. | and all shares of capital stock shall when is | sued in exchange therefor shall thereupon and thereby become and be ul-paid and non. as sessable forever, and the judgment of the Di- rectorS as tC the value of any property, right or thing acquired in exchange for capital stock shall be conclusive.
 ARTICLEv. The time of the comm encement of the cor poration shall be the day these articles are filed in accordance with law, and the termina. | ton thereof shall be Twenty-Five years there after with the privilege of renewal and right of perpetual succession as now provided by law. ARTICLE VI The affairs of the corporation shall be con ducted by a board of not less than three nor more than five directors by whom president | and manager shall be elected and secretary and treasurer appointed The directors shall be elected by and from among the stock-hold- CTS on the first Monday in June of each year and until their successors are elected and quail fled the following named persons shall be the | Directors O D. Nj. Ga6dis., J. E. Perry. and Wm G. Blakely.
 ARTICLE VII The DlrectOrS snail nave power 10 aQOpt ana amend by laws for the government of the cor poration. to fill vacancies occurring Tn the Board from any cause and to appoint an execu- tive committee and invest said committee with all of the powers granted by the Directors by | these articles, and also to increase the number of Directors.
 ATICLE vIII The highest amount of indebtedness or lla bility to which the corporation is at any time to subject itself is Twenty Thousand Dollars. ARTICLE TX. Nrit fn of hn n the corporation shall be exempt from cor porate debts of any kind whatever. IN WITNESS WHEREOF We hereunto attix our signatures and seals this s4th day of May, 1913 O. D. M. GADDIS lSeal " Wi: F: {: EhHEx; SHaxrLr. {sssH ;sssi Kingman Arizona
 STATE OF ARIZONA,l cS
 Before me Ross H. Blakely, Notary Public | in and for the County of Mohave, State of Ari- zona. on this day personally appeared O. D. M. Gaddis, J. E. Perry, and Wm. G. Blakely, known | to me to be the persons whose names are su0 | Scribed to the foregoing instrument and ac knowledged to me that they executed the same l for the purposes and considerations therein | expressed.
 WITNESS, My hand and official seal this 24th
 My Commission Expires Nov. p, 1913. ROSS H BLAkELY: | (SeaD Notary Public Flleu Tn the once or the ArlZona CorporatlOn | Commission this day of June. A. D., 1913 at | l0:O0 A. M. at request of o. D. M. Gaddis, whose postoftice address is kingman, Arizona. | ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION, | By w. P. GEARY, | Chairman. | Filed and Recorded at request of O. D. M. Gaddis June 9th A. D. 1913. at i5 minutes past o'clock A. M., in Book of Interpretations.
 Pages 547 ct sec, Records of Mohave County Arizona
 | J. w. MORGAN,
 First insertion June II IA July.