Arizona republican., 1916-12-23
STATE OF ARIZONA
Office of ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMiS


 ARIZONA CORPORATION coMMis- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF ARIZONA, SS.
 THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION does hereby certify that the annexed is a true and com- plete transcript of the
 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the
 ARIZONA SUPERIOR MINING COM
 PANY
 which were filed in the office of said Arizona Corporation commission on the 9th day of December A. D., 1916 at 10:00 o'clock A. Nj. as provided by law. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF the Ar izona Corporation Commission, by it's chairman has -hereunto set it's hand and affixed it's official seal. Done at the City of Phoenix, the Capitol. this 9th day of December A. D., 1916.
 (SEAL)
 ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMIS- SION.
 F. A. Jones, Chairman. Attest: Amos A. Betts, Secretary.
 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the
 ARIZONA SUPERIOR MINING CON-
 PANY
 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we, the undersigned have this day associated ourselves to- Sether for the purpose of forming and organizing a corporation under the laws of the State of Arizona. and for that purpose hereby adopt the following Ar ticles of Incorporation:
 ARTICLE
 The names, residences and post t-of- flee addresses of the incorpora tors of this corporation are as follows: A. A. Fairchild whose pOst-office address is Phoenix, Arizona; James F. Nelson. whose post office address is Phoenix, Arizona and C. F. Schillings, whose post office address Is Ray, Arizona.
 The name of this corporation is the Arizona Superior Mining Company and the principal place for transacting bus mess of the corporation shall be at Phoenix Maricopa County, Arizona but other offices may be established nd maintained within or outside of Ar izona as the Board of Directors may designate, where meetings of stockhold- CTS and directors may be held and any and all corporate business transacted.
 ARTICLE II
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this cor poration is as follows. to-wiI:
 To purchase, lease. option, locate or otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of, pledge mort gage, hypothecate and deal in mines, mining claims, mineral lands, oil lands, timber lands, real estate, water and water rights and to work, explore, op- crate and develop the same, and to eA- tract any and all minerals, oils and gas therefrom, and to deal in the products and by-products thereof: to purchase, lease and otherwise acquire erect own, fa 6aIf duction works, oil refineries. saw mills and power plants: to do a general real estate, manufacturing and mercantile business; to own, handle and control etters patent and inventions and shares of its own capital stock and that o1 other corporations, and to vote any stock owned by it the same as a nat ural person might do; to make con- tracts, to issue bon6s notes, deben- lures, and other evidences of indebted ness, and to secure the payment of the same by mortgage. deed of trust, or otherwise; to act as agent, trustee, broker or in any other fiduciary ca pacity, and to borrow and loan money, and in general to do all things neces- saIy or proper in the conduct of the business of the corporation In the State or elsewhere not inconsistent with the laws of the United States ciiu LII lllc Cldlt Ol AIlZOlld.
 ARTICLE III
 The authorized amount of the cap- ital stock of this corporation shall be One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (s1,500, ,06000) divided into one million five hundred thousand Q.500,- 000) shares of the par value of One Dollar ($1.00). each, which shall be paid at such times as the Beard of Direc- tors smay designate in cash. real or personal property. services, leases, op- tions to purchase or any other valuab ble right or thing for the uses and pur- poses of the corporation, and all shares of capital stock when issued in ex- change therefor shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid the same as though paid for in cash at par, and shall be non-assessable forever, and the judgment of the Directors as to the value of any property right, thing or services rendered in exchange for capital stock shall, in the absence or actual fraud be conclusive.
 ARTICLE ".
 The time of the commencement of the corporation shall be the day these Articles of Incorporation are filed in accordance with law, and the termina- ton thereof shall be Twenty five (25) years thereafter with the privilege of renewal and the right of perpetual succession now providel by law.
 ARTICLE; V.
 The affairs of the corporation shall be conducted by a board of not less than three nor more than five directors by whom a President and Vice Pres ident and a Secretary and Treasurer shall be elected from among their number. The offices of Secretary and Treasurer may be combined in one