The daily morning oasis., 1919-12-25

A. E. STELZER
Secretary
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
Of
TAFT MINING AND
EXPLORATION COMPANY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE
PRESENTS: That we ALFRED z.
TAFT, of Nogales, Santa Cruz Coun-
ty, State of Arizona, and ALFRED q.
TAFT, JR., B. Y. TAFT, MILDRED
TAFT TINKHAM, SARAH TAFT
SOMERS, MARY E. PHILLIPS, and
RUSSELL TINKHAM, all of the City
of Los Angeles, County of Los Angel
es, State of California, have this day
associated ourselves together for the
purpose of forming a corporation un-
der the laws of the State of Arizona,
for the objects hereinafter set forth,
and to that end do declare:
The name of this corporation and
by which it shall be authorized to
conduct its business is TAFT MIN.
ING AND EXPLORATION COM
PANY.
The principal office or place of tran
saction of business of this corporation
shall be at Nogales, Santa Cruz Coun
ty, Arizona; and branch offices may
be kept and maintained at such other
place or places, either in the United
States or foreign country as the
Board of Directors may from time to
time determine; at any of which Of
fices meetings may be held and all
business of the company may be tran
sacted.
The time Of the commencement of
this corporation shall be the day of
the filing of these Articles OF Incor-
poration in the office of the County
Recorder of Santa Cruz County, Ari-
"a, and a certified copy thereof in
the office of the Corporation Com.
mission of the State of Arizona, and
the termination there of shall be
twenty-five years thereafter, unless
the same be renewed, or be dissolved
before that time by majority vote
of the stockholders, or by operation
of law.
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The general nature of the business
proposed to be transacted by this cor
poration is to locate, buy, bond, ac-
quire, hold, own lease, possess, op-
crate or sell, mortgage, pledge or
otherwise hypothecate or dispose of
mines, or mining claims, or prospects
of gold, silver, copper, or any or all
other kinds of mining or mineral
lands or property, oil wells or oil
lands, oil, gas, asphaltum, petroleum
or any other products, water, or water
rights, and any ana all kinds of real
estate and personal property. To en-
gage in and carry on the business of
mining, to purchase or build, own,
operate and sell, hypothecate or dis
pose of stamp mills and other mills,
smelters, sampling works and reduc-
ton plants, of every description for
smelling, sampling and re-
ducing ores, and ore products, to pur.
chase, own, handle and deal in per-
sonal property and all property of
every kind and nature whatsoever
necessary and requisite to the tran
saction of its business, to carry on
and conduct a general merchandise
business and to that end to deal in
any and all commodities of every kind
conducive to the successful conduct
of said business; to purchase, hold, |
own, control, deal, and handle its own
and the shares and properties of other
companies and corporations; to deal
in and handle any and all kinds of
and processes connected |
with the transaction of it's business
and with the reduction of ores and
metals; to borrow money and to exc
cute notes, bonds, mortgages or
deeds of trust to secure the same;
also to acquire, build, own or operate
railroads, tramways, turn-pikes, tele-
phone and telegraph lines, and other
means of transportation or communi-
cation to and from its mines or works
to any railroad, waterway or high
way, and generally to do all things
incident or necessary to the proper
and successful conduct of its busi-
ness, and to do and perform each
and every act and thing which is law.
full for natural persons to do, all of
which business may carried on at
such place or places as the Board of
Directors NAV deem for the hest in