Weekly journal-miner., 1921-04-27

and acknowledge the following as the Articles of Incorporation thereof:
 The corporators hereof are Fl. Wm Stevens and Chas. T. Joslin. the residence and post office ad- dress of each of said corporators being Prescott, Arizona.
 The name of the corporation is
 VERDE COBRE MINES
 COMPANY
 The principal place of business of said corporation is Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona, and branch offices may be established at such other places as may be fixed by its Board of Directors.
 The general nature of the business to be transacted by this corporation is general mining, milling. smelting, and reduction of ores; the buying, selling and leasing of mines, mining claims and the mineral products tkerefrom: the acquisition by pur- chase or otherwise and the sale and disposition of its own stock or that of other corporations, real estate, mines, mining claims, mill-sitcs and water rights, and the working and developing of the same; the erection of necessary buildings, mills, and re- duction plants, and the purchasing of machinery, appliances and material for the same; mining for gold, silver, copper. lead and other minerals and the sale, milling, reduction, snelting refining or otherwise preparing the same for market; the building of roads. tramways, and railroads in cidental to the working of its prop critics: the handling, control and own- ership of letters patent, relating to and incident to the mining. reduc ton, refining, working. milling and of ores; the conduct of general merchandise business, the issuing of bonds and borrowing of money. and the mortgaging of all or any of its property for the se- curity or payment of the same or any of its indebtedness: the acquis- ition of all things. whether i'll con ncction with those hereinbefore spec ifically enumerated or not. which may be convenient or necessary to carry into effect the objects of the 
 The date of the beginning of this shall be the day on which a certificate of incorporation is issued to it by the Arizona Cor poration Commission. and it shall endure for twenty-five years there after.
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 The government of the corporation is vested in a Board of Directors, consisting of not fewer than three nor more than seven members, to be elected at the annual stockholders who shall hold office for one year from the date of their election and qualification, and until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, however, that if said annual stockholders meeting be not held in any particular year, the stockholders may, if deemed advisable, at a special legal meeting, elect Board of Directors, the members whereof shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified; and Provided further, that any vacancy or vacancies occurring in the Board of Directors may be filled by said Board; the Board of Directors shall have power to in crease the number of its members, as hereinbefore limited, and ill the event of such action shall designate the additional members thereof who shall serve until their successors arc duly elected and qualified;
 The Board of Directors shall have power to hold any meeting and transact any business for the com- pany at any time or place within or without the State of Arizona, and all acts of said Board at such meet ings shall be valid, provided d ma iority of all of the members of the Board shall be present and shall vote in favor of the action there taken, and such vote shall be conclusive evidence of the sufficiency of notice for such meeting, the Board of Di- rcctors shall have power to estab- fish bylaws and make all rules and regulations necessary for the man agement of the corporation and to amend the same.
 The first Board of Directors of this corporation shall consist Of five members, and until their successors