Mohave County miner., 1918-05-11
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, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a Corporation under the ! laws of the State of Arizona, and to that end adopt the following Articles of lncorpora- tion":
 1 ARTICLE I. The names and post office
 address of the IncOrporatorS are:
 Charles H. Burlock, Oatman, Arizona. Benjamin H. Wilson, OatInan, Arizona. 1 Will H. Holcomb, Oatman, Arizona. The name of the Corporation shall be the 1 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 ARTICLE II. The general nature of busl-
 ness proposed to be transacted by this Cor pOration is as follows, to-wit; m To carry on a general mining, milling, smelting, and reduction business to make con |, tracts; to purchase, lease, option' locate or otherwise secure, own, exchange and deal in mines, and mining claims, both lode and placer; also to sell or otherwise dispose or
 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-
 pIore prospect maintain and develop the
 same; to purchase or otherwise acquire plat
 subdivide, sell, lease, deal in and control lanos
 and town sites; to purchase, lease or other otheT-
 wise acquire, erect. own, operate ana sell
 milling, smeltng and other ore reductlon
 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 eN- change, sell and dispose of hotels, restaurants; stores, commissaries, houses, and any ana all other buildings and structures of whatsoever N-=- #s An ing mercantile and agricultural Duslness' Uo ovn cancel and reissue shares of its own cap ital stock and to purchase or other"lse te
 uuire and to hold, own' sell assigh' hOLt-
 gape pledge. or otherwise dispose of, shares' bonds, debentures, or other evidences of ln- debtedness of other Corporations, and wnlle
 the holder thereof, to exercise an tne ne and privileges of ownership, ineluding tne
 right to vote thereon; to issue oonds' notes
 and other evidences of indebtedness anu "
 secure the payment of same, by moresase' e
 deed of trust, or otherwise; to act as a8el1' trustee broker, or in any other nduclaTy CA,
 pacity, and borrow and to loan money aI'G i
 in general to do and perform sueh acts anu
 things and to transact such buslhess III @ oo
 nection with the foregoing objects not lneon,
 sistent with law, in any part or tne No I
 as the Board of Directors may deem to the au-
 vantage of the Corporation. e.-,. .s .L;.
 ARTICLE III. The Capital Stock or tnls
 Corooration shall be ONE MILLION pOL- LARS, divided into ONE MlLLlON ShAhEo,
 of the par value of One Dollar per snare
 Such capital stock may De AoSNeu eN
 times as the Board of Directors may deslg-
 nate, either for cash, or real or personal
 property, or services, or lease or optio1n tO purchase, or any other valuable rlght or i tn!ns' for the use and purposes of the Corporation, and all shares of capital stock so issued, shall thereupon and thereby become and pc IuI paid, the same though paid for in cash az nar and shall be non-assessable forever ana the iudpment of the Directors as to the value of any property, right or thing acquired m exchange for capital stock shall be eonciusl'e' in the absence of actual fraud in the transae-
 ARTICLE W. The time of the commence. uent of this Corporation shall be the date oi the issuance to it of certain CeTtnGaIe or Incorporation by the ARIZONA CORPOhA- TION COMMISSION, and it shall endure for the full term of twenty-five years thereafter with privileges of perpetual succession as pro
 ARTICLE V. The affairs of the Corpora tion shall be conducted by Board of Dlrec- tors consisting of not less than IHkEE nor more than SEVEN members, by whom Presl- dent a Vice President, Secretary ana 1ress- 1rer shall be elected, from among the stock- holders, provided that, the offices of Secretary and Treasurer may be held by the same per
 The Board of Directors may from time to in1e appoint such other officers and agen!s ,s to them seem meet and proper The Di- -ectors shall be elected by and from among he Stockholders at their annual meeting to ,e held on the second Monday of January m ,ach year, and shall hold office for one year md until their successors have been elected md have qualified. Until the first annual 7 oeatino of the Stockholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified the following named persons shall be the oIii- ers and directors stated: |
 Charles H. Buriock, President ana DlreeIOf'
 Will H. Holcomb, Vice President ana Dl- ector. -. l md Director.
 Benjamin H. Wilson, Director. n
 N Morgan, Director.
 ARTICLE VI. The Directors shall nave the ,ower to adopt, amend and reseind By-Laws' ' o fiIl vacancies occurring in the Board from nv cause and to appoint from their own unnber an executive committee and vest sald committee with all the powers granted the Directors by these Articles.
 ARTICLE VII. The highest amount or ln- ebtedness or liability to which the corpora ion may at any one time subject itseI IS Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
 ARTICLE VIII. The private property or he Stockholders of the Corporation snali pc oreyer exempt from the debts or obligations f the Corporation.
 ARTICLE TX These Articles of lncorpora- ion may be amended by a majority vote Of ba outstanding stock of the Corporation at nv regular meeting of the stockholders or Ii any special meeting thereof called TOT that IN WITNESS WHEREOF. we have hereun, O set our hands and seals this fth day ol 'SsaD CHARLES H. BURLoCK' ;Ses6 WILL H. HOLC0MB, ;SeaH BENJAMIN H. WILSON. stets of California, County of Los Angeles ss.
 On this 7th day of March, A. ID. lslS' pc fore me Pearl Brooks, a Notary PuDne m md for Los Angeles County State o1 OaIiL9r-