Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-03-18
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
DEAN MINES COMPANY

Know All Men By These Presents:
 That we, the undersigned, have this day associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under and pursuant to the Laws of the State of Arizona, and for that pur- pose do hereby adopt Articles of h. corporation as follows:
 Article 1. The name of this Cor poration shall be DEAN MINES COMPANY.
 Article II. The principal place of business of this Corporation, within the State of Arizona, shall be at King man, Mohave County, Arizona, and the principal place of transacting bus mess outside of Arizona, shall be at the City and County of San Francis co, State of California, and at such other places as the Board of Directors may determine, where meetings of Di- rectors may be held and all business transacted.
 Article III. The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted is to make contracts; to purchase, lease, option, locate, or otherwise ac- quire, own, exchange, sell, or other wise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hy- pothecate and deal in mines, mining claims, mineral lands, coal lands, oil lands, timber lands, real and personal estate, water, water rights, and to work, explore, operate and develop the same and to extract any and all minerals, oils and gas therefrom and deal in the products and by-products thereof; to purchase lease or otherwise acquire, erect, own, operate, or sell smelting and ore reduction works, oil refineries, saw mills and power plants; to do a general real estate, manufac turing and mercantile business; to own, handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of it's own capital stock and that of other cor porations, and to cancel and reissue shares of it's own capital stock; to is sue bonds, notes, debentures and other evidences of indebtedness and to se- cure the payment of the same by mortgage, deed of trust or otherwise; to act as agent, trustee, broker, or in any other fiduciary capacity; to borrow and loan money; and in gen. eral to do and perform such acts and things and transact such business, not inconsistent with law, in any part of the world as the Board of Directors may deem to the advantage of the cor poration.
 Article W. The authorized amount of capital stock of this Corporation shall be One Million Dollars ($1,000,- 000.00) divided into One Million shar- es (1,000,000) of the par value of One Dollar ($1.00) each. At such times as the Board of Directors may by resolu- tion direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this Corporation, either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real or personal property, con- tracts, services, or any other valuable right or thing for the, use and pur- poses of said Corporation, in payment for which, shares of the capital stock of said Corporation may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall there Upon and thereby become and be full ly paid up and nonassessable forever, and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Directors as to the value of the prop erty purchased shall be conclusive.
 Article V. The time of the com mencement of this Corporation shall be the date of the filing of a certi- fled copy of these Articles of Incor- poration in the office of the Corpor- ation Commission of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty five years thereafter, with the privi- lege of renewal as provided by law.
 Article VI. The affairs of this Cor poration shall be conducted by Board of Directors, and such officers as the Directors may elect or appoint, and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their suc- cessors are elected and have qualified:
 Names: Whose Residence is At: Frank O'Shea, San Francisco, Cali
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 Irvine O'Shea, San Francisco, Califor-
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 John F. Sullivan, San Francisco, Cal
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 F. P. Aylwin, Kingman, Arizona. A. McNally, Los Angeles, California.
 Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stock holders at the annual Stockholders meeting to be held on the 20th day of February of each year. The names of the officers who shall have charge of the corporate affairs are: Presi-. dent, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.
 Article VII. The Board of Direc- tors shall have power to adopt and amend Bylaws for the government of the corporation, to fill vacancies oc- curing in the Board from any cause, and to appoint an Executive Commit tee and vest said committee with such powers as they may determine.
 Article VIII. The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or