Mohave County miner., 1914-11-07

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a corporation under and by virtue of and in ac
cordance with the the laws of the State of Ari
IONA. United states of America, and for such
purposes we do adopt the following charter and
articles of incorporation:
Cd The name of this corporation is and shall
THE MINES DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF
ARIZONA"
/ W The names and addresses of the incorpora-
tors of this Company w. A. Reeder 1913.
Union Oil Bldg, Los Angeles, Cal, Il b. Law
renee, Hotel Hayward wv Los Angeles Cal, W: F.
Lineberger, 5l3 W. First St. Long Beach, Cal,
G. w. Prince, Jr., 723 Union Oil Bldg, Los
! Angeles, Cal.
90 The principal place of transacting the bust
ness of the Company within the State of rizona
is and shall be The City of Kingu.an, Mohave
County, Arizona and the principal place of bust
ness of the Company without the State of Arr
iona is the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, State of California and all meetings of
the incorporators. stockholders and directors of
this corporation may be held at the City of Los
Angeles, Los Angeles County, State of California.
but the Company may establish offices and carry
on its business in any other State or Territory in
the United States or any foreign Country.
| I'D The general nature of the business in
which this corporation shall engage is follows,
to wit:
To prospect for, locate and acquire by dis
covery, location, purchase, lease, license, de-
nouncements, concession, franchise, grant, con-
veyance, gift, device, or otherwise, and to sell,
lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of and deal
in mines, and mining lands, mining claims, min
ing concessions, mining locations other lands
or properties of whatsoever character, in any
part of the United States the Territories there
of, or in any part of the Republic of Mexico or in
any other country; to perfect title thereto pur-
suant to the laws of the country where situated
To use, operate, mine, develop, explore MILL
quarry, work and exploit in any manner, all such
lands and property for the purpose of discovery
and production of mineral and other products of
such land, mining claims, grounds, locations
and other concessions, and property of whatever
kind; and to do and carry on a general mining
business in all its various branc es.
To crush. concentrate, smelt, refine, dress,
amalgamate. treat, extract, reduce, calcne. eva
hide, and manipulate all kinds of ores, minerals
metals and metalliferous substances therefrom
and prepare the same for the market: and to en-.
gage in the smelling, reducing, crushing, ren-
ing, milling, treating, and selling minerals and
ores of all kinds, and to enter into any contract
deemed necessary or eXpedient to further the
interests and business OF the Company.
ToOwn, operate, develop, use, purchase sell lease
and otherwise acquire and dispose of timber and
/ agricultural lands, and lands Of any kinds what
soever, and the products therefrom including
water rights, dams, reservoirs, irrigation plants
/ and power plants, of all kinds whatsoever and 10
furnish water power and electricity for power
and lighting and other purposes, and to con-
struct, ere t. operate, use and maintain water
works, workshops factories, fumes. acQueducts
crushing works, smelling and refining plants
and to manufacture, furnish. sell. distribute ac-
quire, dispose of and supply gas, water, ice,
electricity, power, heat light and other products
for any purpose whatsoever, and to construct
maintain, operate and conduct plants and works
for holding, receiving, distributing conducting
using ana furnishing same.
To invest in, take over, buy, sell, pledge ex-
change, and otherwise acquire or dispose Of
stocks, shares, bonds, and securities of other co
porat ions, foreign or domestic. and to purchase
or otherwise acquire, hold. dispose of, or to
retire and cancel any stock, bonds, securities or
other obligations of this corporation
To mortgage any mining ground, claims or
lodes, mining or mineral rights, other prop
erty. real or personal. belonging to the Company,
and to issue bonds or other obligations of the
Company, whenever it may be determined so to
do.
To conduct commssary and carry on gen.
eral merchandise business and to engage in any
and all kinds of business that a natural person
might or could do in the United States any part
of the World.
6) The amount of capital sock of this cor
poration shall be Ten Thousand Dollars (SlO,-
OOO.OO) divided into one hundred 600 shares of
the par value of one hundred dollar, ($lO0 OO per
share, and such stock shall be paid up at the date
of the issuance thereof or at such time as the
Board of Directors may designate, in either
money, property, labor or other valuable right
thing, and the judgment of the Board of Direc-
tors as to the value thereof shall be conclusive
and thereupon, by the receipt of the money,
property, services or other valuable right
thing, at the valuation placed thereon by the
Board of Directors, the capital stock OF said cor
poration shall be issued. and when so issued shall
thereupon and thereby become fully paid up and
forever worcestershire, and without further
stockholders liability for any purpose whatso-
ever.
Co Shares of stock of this Company may be
voted by proxy at all stockholders meetings, and
shares of the stock owned by this Company in
other corpo ations shall be voted at stockholders
meetings of such corporation by the President of
this Company, unless the Directors of the Com
pany shall designate some other repgesen tative.
% The time of the commencement OF this
poration shall be tie date of the fling OF these
Articles of Inc rpO' lion in the Office OF the Ali
IONA Corporation Commission, and this corpora
tlOn shall exist for the full of tWeDty-fye
years thereafter.
The charte rights of this Company may be re-
newed from time to time for periods of twenty
five years at a time perpetually provided by
law.
(S) The affairs of this corporation shall be
managed and conducted by Board of Directors
of not less than three nor more than five direc-
tors, who shall be elected on the first Monday of
the month of May of each year hereafter,
the Bylaws of the Company shall hereafter pro-
vide
90 The Board of Directors shall have full
right, power and authority to fill any vacancy
vacancies on the Board by appointment from
among the stockholders.
ilO) Ten days notice of the time and place of
holding meetings of the Stockholders shall be
given to the Stockholders of the Company by
mailing letter postal to each stockholder at
his latest known address.
1n The private property of the officers and
stockholders of this corporation shall be and is
hereby made forever exempt from any and all
liability for the deb's and obligations of this
poration of whatsoever nature or character, and
the capital stock of this corporation, shall be and
is hereby made forever worcestershire for any
purpose.
~ The highest amount of Indebtedness, di-
rect or contingent, which this Company shall
may subject itself to at any time shall not ex-
coed 60 per cent of the capital stock
Q3 The Board of Directors of the Company
may. in their discretion, issue bonds or other
evidence of Indebtedness for the purpose of Sc
curing funds for operating purposes, and may
cure the payment of the same by mortgage
deed OF trust upon the whole or any part of the