Mohave County miner., 1917-09-01
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF J. P. MINES CORPORATION.

 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
 That we. the undersigned. having associated ourselves for the purpose of forming corpor- ation under the laws of Arizona, do hereby adopt the following Articles of Incorporation. ARTICLE I. The incorpOrators are: ROLAND c. SWAFFIELD, post office ad- dress. Long Beach. California.
 PHIL NJ. SWAFFTELD, post office address. Long Beach, California. GWENDOLINE M. PATERSON, post office address, Long Beach. California. And the name of the Corporation shall be ''J. P. MINES CORPORATION" Its prin- cipal place of business within the State of Arizona shall be at the City of Kingman. but other offices may be established or main tained within outside of the State of Ar izona, at such place the Board of Direct ors may designate. where meetings of stock holders and directors may be held and any and all corporate business transacted.
 ARTICLE 1T.
 The general nature of the business pro- posed to be transacted. is to-wit :--To pur- chase, lease. option, locate. or otherwise ae- quire, own, operate, exchange. sell or other wise dispose of, pledge mortgage. hypothecate and deal in mines. mining claims. mineral lands, coal lands. oil lands, timber lands, wa ter and water rights, and other property, both real and personal. and to work, operate and develop the same. and to deal in the products and by-products thereof; to purchase. lease otherwise acquire, rent, own, operate and
 
 milling machinery and apparatus. oil refiner- ies, mills and power plants: and to own. handle and control Letters Patent and inventions and shares of it's own capital stock and that of other corporations. and to vote any shares of stock of other corporations owned by it, the as a natural person might do to borrow money and to issue bonds, notes, debentures, and other evidences of in debtedness, 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 capacity and in general to do and perform such acts and things and transact such business in connection with the forego- ing objects, not inconsistent with law, in any part of the world. and the Board of Direc- tors may deem to the advantage of the cor poration.
 The capital stock of the corporation shall be One Million Dollars (SI,0OO, ,OOO.OO) divid- ed into One Million Q,0OO,OOO) shares of the par value of One Dollar (S1.00) each, which shall be paid in at such time as the Baord of Directors may designate, in cash, real or per sonal property, services, leases. options to pur- chase, or any other valuable right or thing for the uses and purposes of the corporation, and all shares of capital stock when issued in exchange therefor, shall thereupon and there by become and be full-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 or thing, acquired in exchange for capi- tai stock, shall be conclusive.
 
 The commencement of the corporation shall be the date of the issuance to it of a certif- ieats of incorporation by the Arizona Cor poration Commission, and it shall endure for the full term of twenty-five (2O years there after. with the privilege of perpetual success sion as provided by statute
 ARTICLE V
 The affairs of the corporation shall be con- ducted by a Board of Directors and such officers the said Directors may elect or appoint. The Board of Directors shall be designated by the bylaws and shall be elected from among the stockholders at their second Tuesday in Septeunbe- of each year. Until the first annual meeting of the stockholders and until their successors have been elected and have qualified the fol- lowing named persons shall be the officers and directors:- Roland Swaffield, Phil M Swaffield, Gwendoline M. Paterson.
 ARTICLE VI
 The Directors shall have power to adopt amend and rescind bylaws, to fill vacancies in the Board from any cause and to appoint from their own Board an exec tive committee and vest said committee with all the powers granted the Directors by these Articles.
 ARTICLE VII.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or Ia- oility to which the corporation may at any 1ne time subject itself is Six Hundred Sixty Six Thousand Dollars (S666, ,OOO.OO).
 ARTICLE VIII.
 The private property of the stockholders of ne corporation shall be forever exempt from It's debts or obligations.
 ARTICLE K.
 This corporation does here appoint Guy E. 3ierson of the City of Kingman, State of Arizona. who has been bona fide resident 'f the State of Arizona for at least three years ts lawful agent in and for the State of Ari- ,ona for and in behalf of said company to ae- 'ept and acknowledge service of, and upon whom may be served. all necessary process or processes in any action, suit or proceeding that nay be had or brought against the said company in any of the courts of said State 'f Arizona, such service of process or notice. IT the acceptance thereof by said agent en- iOrsed thereon, to have the same force md effect as if served upon the president and secretary of sail company.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we hereto affix ,ur signatures and seals this first day of August. 1917.
 ROLAND G. SWAFFIELD (sean
 PHIL NJ. SWAFFIELD (Seall