Mohave County miner., 1918-04-27
LEGAL ADVERTISING
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE NATIONAL FIVE GOLD MINES COMPANY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
 That we. whose names are hereto affixed, dc
 hereby associate ourselves together for the
 purpose of forming Corporation under the
 laws of the State of Arizona, and to that end
 adopt the following Articles of Incorpora-
 tion":
 ARTICLE I. The names and post office
 address of the Incorporators are:
 Charles H. Burlock, Oatman, Arizona.
 ] Benjamin H. Wilson. Oatman, Arizona.
 Will H. Holeomb, Oatman. Arizona.
 The name of the Corporation shall be the NATIONAL FIVE GOLD MINES COMPANY.
 Its principal place of business within the State of Arizona shall be Oatman, Mohave County, State of Arizona. but other offices
 may be established and maintained within or outside of Arizona, at such places as the Board of Directors may designate, where meetings of Stockholders and Directors may be held,
 and any and all corporate business transacted. i ARTICLE II. The general nature of busi-
 ness proposed to be transacted by this Cor poratiOn is as follows. tO-wit:
 1 To carry a general mining, milling,
 smelting. and reduction business; to make con- , tracts: to purchase. lease, option. locate or 1 otherwise secure own, exchange and deal in
 mines. and mining claims, both lode and placer; also to sell or otherwise dispose of. pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in
 mines mineral lands. coal lands, oil lands. timber lands, agricultural lands, water and water rights, dam sites, and any other prop erty, both real and personal, and to work' eN- plore, prospect, maintain and develop the same: to purchase otherwise acquire, plat subdivide, sell, lease, deal in and control lands and town sites to purchase, lease, or other wise acquire, erect, own, operate ana sell
 milling, smelting and other ore reduction
 works, oil refineries. power plants, water
 works, railroads and tramways to lead from
 the COmpany's principal works; to estaohsn'
 acquire, build, construct. own, operate, e1-
 change, sell and dispose of hotels, restaurants,
 stores, eommissaries, houses, and any and all
 other buildings and structures of whatsoever
 kind or nature; to do a general manutactur- fuur rf1ar mi aud own, cancel and reissue shares of its own cap ital stock and to purchase. or otherwise ac-
 quire. and to hold, own, sell, assign, mort gage, pledge, otherwise dispose ot shares' bonds, debentures. or other evidences Of in debtedness of other Corporations. and while the holder thereof, to exercise all the rights and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon; to issue bonds, notes- and other evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the payment of same. by mortgage deed of trust, or otherwise; to act as agent trustee. broker, in any other hduciary ca pacity and O borrow and to loan money and in genera to do and perform such acts and things, and to transact such business m con- nection with the foregoing objects not incon- sistent with law, in any part of the world , as the Board of Directors may deem to the ad- vantage of the Corporation.
 ARTICLE III. The Capital Stock of this Corporation shall be ONE MILLION DOL LARS, divided into ONE MILLION SHARES, 1 of the par value of One Dollar per share; such capital stock may be issued at such times the Board or DlfecJOFs may ue1lE- nate, either for cash, or real or personal | property, or services, or lease, or option 10 l purchase, any other valuable right or thing l for the and purposes of the Corporation, l and all shares of capital stock SO issued, shall I thereupon and thereby become and be full | paid, the same as though paid for in cash at | par, and shall be non-assessable forever, and I the judgment of the Directors as to the value I of any property. right thing acquired in | for capital stock shall be conclusive | in the absence of actual fraud, in the transac- ton.
 ment of this Corporation shall be the date of | the issuance to it of certain Certificate of ! Incorporation by the ARIZONA CORPORA | the full term of twenty-five years thereafter. with privileges of perpetual succession as pro-
 ARTICLE V. The affairs of the Corpora ton shall be conducted by Board of Diree- tors consisting of not less than THREE nor ! more than SEVEN members, by whom a Presi- dent a Vice President, Secretary and Treas urer shall be elected, from among the stock holders, provided that the offices of Secretary and Treasurer may be held by the same per son.
 The Board of Directors may from time to time appoint such other officers and agents as to them seem meet and proper. The Di- rectors shall be elected by and from among the stockholders at their annual meeting to be held on the second Monday of January in zach year. and shall hold office for one year and until their successors have been elected and have qualified. Until the first annual meeting of the Stockholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified, the following named persons shall be the OIL ,ers and directors as stated:
 Charles H. Burlock, President and Director.
 Will H. Holcomb Vice President and Di- rector.
 Margaret Kempley, Secretary and Treasurer and Director.
 Benjamin H. Wilson, Director.
 N. Morgan. Director.
 ARTICLE VI. The Directors shall nave the power to adopt, amend and reseind Bylaws Q fill vacancies occurring in the BoarD rom any cause. and to appoint from their own number an executive committee and vest sald committee with all the powers granted the Directors by these Articles
 ARTICLE VII. The highest amount Of in- iebtedness or liability to which the Corpora ion nav at any one time subject itself IS Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
 ARTICLE VIII The private properg I Sl he Stockholders of the Corporation shall be orever exempt from the debts or obligations
 ARTICLE K. These Articles of Incorp99ra, ion may be amended by majority votJ or he outstanding stock of the Corporation at my regular meeting of the stoekholders or t any special meeting thereof called for that IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereun- O set our hands and seals this 7th day or darch, A. D. 1918. 1,rprOcE SesR WILL H. HOLCOMB, SssH BENJAMIN H. WILSON. ;4sts of California, County of Los Angeles. ss.
 On this 7th day of March, A. D. lslS. De ore me. Pearl Brooks, Notary Pu6he m nd for Los Angeles County, State of Calitor- ia aforesaid. residing therein, duly eommiSS,I SI toned and sworn, personally appeared VII | q Holcomb, known to me to be the person eseribed in, whose name is attached to- ana tho executed and delivered the within in- , tyuu,ent. and he acknowledged to me that ne xecuted the same as his voluntary act ana { or the purposes and considerations named |
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have hereunto of my hand and affixed my official seal the av and year last above written
 Seal) PEARL IDI,S DINCON.S' r Iotarv Public in and for the County Of Los
 Angeles State of California.
 fate of Arizona. County of Mohave. ss-
 On this sth day of March, A. D. lsiS. pc ore me Elva c. Shuck, Q Notary Pubhe m C nd for the County of Mohave, State ot Ari- |. ona. aforesaid, residing therein duly com ,issioned and sworn. personally appeareu barIes H. Burlock and Benjamin H. Mlisoh' q nov-n to me to be the persons described li'' hose names are attached to, and who eNecu,5 5 and delivered the within instrument ana il new each acknowledged to me that they exc V 1ted the same as their voluntary act and Tor { 7e nur-poses and considerations therein named C TNT NKTTTAJESC WJER EOF- I have hereuhtO !