Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-05-06
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of COMSTOCK CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINING COMPANY

Know All Men By These Presents:
 That we, the undersigned, have this day associated ourselves for the pur- pose of forming corporation under the laws of the State of Arizona, and to that end do hereby adopt the fol lowing Articles of Incorporation: .s. ARTICLE 1.
 The name of this corporation shall be COMSTOCK CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINING COMPANY and its principal place of business shall be Kingman, Arizona, but other offices may be established and maintained within or outside the State of Ari- zona at such places as the Board of Directors may designate, where meet ings of stockholders and directors may be held.
 -. ARTICLE g..
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted is as fol lows: -- ~, -. n
 To make contracts; to purchase, lease, option, locate or otherwise ac- quire, own or exchange, sell or other wise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hy- psthecate and deal in mines, mining claims, mineral lands, mining ma chinery and equipment, ores, minerals, real estate of any kind, and personal property; .--.....,- .'.-,. .
 To purchase, lease or otherwise ac- quire, erect, own and operate or sell smelters and ore reduction works;
 To do a general manufacturing and mercantile business;
 To own, handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of its own capital stock and that of other corporations, and to cancel and re-is- sue shares of its own capital stock;
 To issue bonds, notes, debentures and other evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the same and the pay ment thereof by mortgage, deed of trust or otherwise; "''...' -
 To act as agent, trustee, broker, or any other fiduciary capacity; To bor- row or loan money; and, in general to do and perform such acts and things and transact such business not incon- sistent with law, in any part of the world as the Board of Directors may deem to the advantage of the Cor poration.
 ARTICLE 8.
 The authorized capital stock of this Corporation shall be One Hundred and Fifty Thousand ($150,00O) Dollars divided into One Million Five Hundred Thousand (1,500,0O0) shares of the par value of ten cents each, which shall be paid in in such manner and at such times as the Board of Direc- tors may designate, in cash, real or personal property, contracts services. or any other valuable right or thing. for the uses and purposes of the Cor poration, and all shares of capital stock, when issued in exchange there for, shall thereupon and thereby be and the same shall be deemed fully paid for, the same as though paid for in cash, at par, and shall be forever non-assessable, and the judgment of the Board of Directors, as to the value of any property, right or thing .ac- quired in exchange for capital stock shall be conclusive.
 .~t ARTICLE 4.
 The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles according to, Law, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter with the privilege of perpetual sue cession as provided by Law. =, ARTICLE 5.
 The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by a Board of not less than three nor more than seven Di- rectors, and such officers as they may select or appoint.
 Until the first annual meeting of the stockholders of this Corporation, the annual meetings of such stock holders being hereby designated to be held on the first Monday in Febru- ary of each year, the following named shall constitute the Board of Direc- tors until their successors are elected and have qualified:
 James M. Curtin, of Kngman, Ari- zona,
 Wm. P. Mahoney, of Kingman, Ari- zona, M
 w. P. Geary of Phoenix, Arizona,
 Henry Johnson of Kingman, Ari- zona.
 Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the