Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-04-12


 Deputy Recorder.
 CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 Thumb Butte Gold Mining Comany
 We. the undersigned. in order to form corporation for the purposes herein- after stated under and pursuant to the provisions of an act of the Ielfslature of the State of Delaware. entitled "An Act providing a General Corporation Law" Approved March 10th. 1SSs) and the Acts amendatory thereof and supple mentary thereto, do hereby certify as follows:
 1. The name of the corpora ton is THUMB BUTTE GOLD MINING COM
 PANY. ation is to be located in the City of Dover, the County of Kent and State of Delaware. The name of it's resident agent is the United States Corporation Company.
 8. The nature of the business of the corporation and the objects or purposes proposed to be transacted, promoted or carried on by it are as follows, to-wit:
 To acquire by purchase, lease location, announcement or in any lawful manner. mines, mining claims and concessions and mining properties of whatsoever kind or nature and to operate, sell and deal and trade in the same.
 To acquire by purchase. lease or in any ldWlul IudHHcI, anu COUStt ut, ildih- tain, operate, sell and deal in milling. smelting and production plants for the treatment of ores.
 To acquire by location. purchase or in any lawful m manner. l1e. wal waters. ectric' power plants and to construct. maintain, operate and sell and deal in the same.
 To maintain and conduct the business of buying and selling merchandise 10 ip,n maintain roads. highways, tramways and other means Of transportation (not, however, constitut- ing public utilities) and to do every and any thing which may contribute to the objects and purposes of the company - To improve, manage, develop. sell, as- sign, transfer, lease. mortgage. pledge or otherwise dispose of or turlt to ac- count or deal with all or any Nart or the property of the company, and from time to time to vary any investment or employment of capital of the com pany.
 To borrow money, and to make and issue notes, bonds, debentures, obliga- tions and evidences of indebteopess OF all kinds, whether secured by mortgage, pledge or otherwise, without limit as to amount, and to secure the same by mortgage, pledge or otherwise; and ges- orally to make and perform agreements and contracts of every Kind ana oes- cription.
 To the same extent as natural per- sons might or could do. to purchase or otherwise acquire, and to hold. own, maintain. work, develop. sell, lease, ex- change, hire, convey, mortgage. or oth- erwise dispose of and deal in. lands and leaseholds, and any interest. estate and rights in real property. and any person al or mixed property, and any franchis- es, rights, licenses or privileges necess- ary, convenient or appropriate TOT any of the purposes herein expressed.
 To apply for, obtain, register. pur- chase. lease or otherwise to acquire ana to hold, own, use. develop, operate ana introduce, and to sell, assign. grant li- ccnses or territorial rights in respect to. CT otherwise to turn to account or dis pose of, any copyrights. trade marks, trade names, brands. labels. patent rights, letters patent of the United Stat es or of any other country or govern. ment, inventions. improvements and processes, whether used in connection with or secured under letters patent or otherwise.
 To do an and everything necessary, suitable and proper for the accomplish ment of any of the purposes or the at tainment of any of the objects or the furtherance of any of the powers here- inbefore set forth, either alone or in as- sociation with other corporations. firms or individuals, and to do every other act or acts, thing or things incidental or ap- purtenant to or growing out or or con- nected with the aforesaid business or powers of any part or parts thereon, provided the same be not incoSsistent with the laws under which this Sprpor- ation is organized.
 To acquire by purchase, subscription or otherwise, and to hold for investment or otherwise and to use, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise deal with or dispose of stocks bonds or any other obligations or securities or any corporation or corporations; to merge or consolidate with any corpora f ;,,e .oh hn r. ed by law; to aid in any manner any col poration whose stock, bond or other obligations are held or in any manner guaranteed by the company. or in which the company is in any way interested; and to do any other acts or things for the preservation, protection, improve ment or enhancement of the value of any such stock, bonds or other obliga- tions, or to do any acts or things de- signed for any such purpose; and while owner of any such stock. boads or other obligations to exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership thereof, and to exercise any and all vot- ing powers thereon; to guarantee tho the principal or interest or both of any bonds or other obligations. and the per- fcrmance of any contracts. The business or purpose of the com pany is from time to time to do any one or more of the acts and things here- inbefore set forth. and it shall have power to conduct and carry on its said business, or any part thereof. and to have one or more offices and to exercise all or any of the corporate powers and rights. in the state of Delaware. and in the various other states, territories, col- onies and dependencies of the United States. in the District of Columbia. and in all or any foreign countries.
 1. The amount of the total authori- zed capital stock of the corporation is One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars C1,500,000) divided into one million five hundred thousand Q,500.- 00O shares of One Dollar (s1.00) each. The amount of capital stock with which it will commence business is OAe Thou sand Dollars ($1,000.00).
 5. The names and places of residence es of each of the original subscribers to the capital stock and the numFAer of shares subscribed for by each, ae as follows:
 Name Residence No. of Shares Herbert l. .McNair Los Angeles.
 California . William Ellis Lady. Los Angeles,
 California. .