Mohave County miner., 1918-08-03

l ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF ARI- l IONA 8 METALS MINING COMPANY which were filed in the office of said Ari- zona Corporation Commission on the 24th day of June, A. D. 1918, at 10 o'clock a. m., as provided by law.
 In testimony whereof the Arizona Corpora ton Commission, by its chairman, has here unto set its hand and affixed its official seal. Done at the City of Phoenix. the capitol. this 2lth day of June. A. D., 1918.
 ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION
 F. A. JONES. Chairman. Attest: SAM W. PROCTOR, Sec'y. ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION Be It Known. that we. the undersigned, cit izens of the United States and resident of the City of Los Angeles, State of California, and ] City of Kansas City, State of Kansas, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the State of Arizona, and for the purpose do hereby adopt the following Articles ! ARTICLE I.
 The names and postoffice addresses of the incorporators are:
 l J. H. Hoffman. Los Angeles. California.
 R. H. Weber, Kansas City. Kansas. The name of the corporation shall be ARI- l IONA 8 METALS MINING COMPANY, and its principal place of business within the State of Arizona shall be at COpperville. Mohave . County, Arizona, but other offices may be established and maintained within or outside of Arizona, at such places the Board of Directors may designate. Directors meetings may be held at any place outside of the state as may be designate d in call for such meet ings. -
 ] The general nature ot the business proposed to be transacted and carried on by this cor poration is that of mining, milling, smelting. ore reduction and treating in all it's related branches, and to do any and all the things herein mentioned as fully and to the same ex- tent as natural persons might or could do. in any part of the world. and to do any and ev- cry act and thing and to engage in any and every business which may be, by it's Board of Directors. deemed necessary, requisite essen- ,iaI, convenient or auxiliary to the carrying out of the objects and purposes for which this corporation is formed.
 In furtherance and not in limitation of said general powers and purposes, 1t IS expressly provided that this corporation shall have the following powers, to-wit:
 1. To acquire. own, handle. cucumber or in any manner deal in or with any and all classes of property, real, personal or mixed :; 10 purchase or otherwise acquire, own, hold sell or in any manner deal in or with shares of the capital stock of this or other corpora tions; to pay for property, purchase in cash stock of this or other corporations, bond or otherwise; to carry on the business Of mining milling, smelting, concentrating, converting treating, preparing for market manu1acturlns' buying, selling, exchanging otherwise pro- ducing or dealing in or with any and all kinds of ores, minerals and metals, and the products and by-products thereof, of every kind and description, and by whatever process the same can or may be produced, and gen. orally without limitation as to amount. - | 2. To acquire by purchase, exchange To- cation. appropriation or in any other manner whatever to receive, own, hold, use. operate, lease. mortgage, sell or otherwise dispose of mines. mining claims, mining property min ing rights, ores, minerals, water, water-rights, reservoirs, canals, flumes, ditches, mills, smelters. saw-mills mill-stes, dam-sites, stores hotels, boarding houses. easements or any other kind of property.
 4 3. To construct, lease, purchase or other wise acquire. and to ownI hold manage and operate or dispose of roads tramways, rail- roads, telegraph or telephone line and sys- tens, auto trucks, automobiles, power lines or systems and power houses, necessary or convenient to the carrying on of any busi- ness undertaken by it; to engage in the mer- cantile business; to acquire, own, hold, sell' 1 lease. dispose of or otherwise deal in or with any and all kinds of inventions. rights, li- censes, patent rights letters patent.
 4. To borrow money, and to issue its bonds: payable in cash or convertible into stock Of the corporation, promissory notes, mortgages or other evidences of indebtedness therefor, and to pledge, sell or otherwise cucumber or owned by it for the security payment Of any indebtedness or obligation incurred or un- dertaken to use it's stock, debentures or bonds in payment for any property or commodity which it may purchase or acquire. ,. To make contracts, and to do as fully and to the same extent as natural persons might or could do any and all of the things herein set forth, either as principal, agent contractor. trustee or otherwise, and either alone in company with other persons, as- sociations corporations; and in general to have and exercise with respect thereto all the powers, privileges and immunities confer red upon corporations of this class by the laws of the State of Arizona.
 ARTICLE III.
 The amount of capital stock of this cor poration shall be Forty-one Thousand Dollars (s4I, ,OOO.OO) divided into 4,l00,O00 shares of the par value of one cent each, and the same when issued shall be fully paid and forever non-Gssessable Said stock shall be issued at such time or times and upon such terms and conditions as may be provided by the Board oi Directors, and same may be issued in eX- change for mines, mining claims, or any other property. real or personal, or for ben cfits accruing or services rendered to the corporation in any manner form whatso- ever as the Board of Directors may deter mine and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction. such determination of the Board of Directors 5.,I69 shall 4, be g2, final The time of the commencement of this Cor poration shall be the day these articles are filed in accordance with law, and the termin- ation thereof shall be twenty-five years there after, with privilege of renewal and the right of perpetual succession as now provided by law.
 The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by a Board of not less than three CT Elore than seven directors, by whom a President and Vice-President shall be elected and a Secretary and Treasurer appointed. both | same I.erson. The directors shall be elected by and from among the stockholders on the first Tuesday in June of each year and shall | serve until their successors are elected and qualified. The following named persons shall ] be the directors and officers as stated: R. H. Weher, President.
 ! Fred Hessei, Vice-President.
 J. H. Hoffman, Secretary-Treasurer.
 other Directors being:
 T. 4. McNeal, c. Hoffman.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The Directors shall adopt bylaws for the ] government of the Corporation and may amend the same. They shall have power 10 ! fill vacancies occurring in the Board from any cause. Vacancies shall be filled by election by the remaining members of said Board from among the stockholders of record. The Direc- tors may appoint from among their number Executive Committee which to the extent pro- vided by resolution or by the said bylaws shall have and exercise the powers granted the directors by these Articles
 ARTICLE VII.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or Ha- bility to which this Corporation is at any time to subject itself is One Million Dollars ! (Sl,eCO.O0O.OO). | Aurrr,r WITT