Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-05-13
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
COMSTOCK CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINING COMPANY

day associated ourselves for the pur- pose of forming a corporation under the laws of the State of Arizona, and to that end do hereby adopt the fol- lowing Articles of Incorporation:
 ARTICLE 1.
 The name of this corporation shall be CoMSTOCK CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINING COMPANY and it's principal place of business shall be Kingman, Arizona, but other offices may be established and maintained within or outside the State of Ari- sona at such places as the Board of Directors may designate, where meet ings of stockholders and directors may be held. 4r,,. ,- ARTICLE 2. -..--..
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted is as fol- lows:
 To make contracts; to purchase, lease, option. locate or otherwise ac- quire, own or exchange, sell or other wise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hy- pethecate 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 ao- quire, erect, own and operate or sell snelters and ore reduction works;
 To do a general manufacturing and mercantile business;
 To own, handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of it's 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 porstion. sSS -a ARTICLE 8.
 The authorized capital stock of this Corporation shall be One Hundred and Fifty Thcusand ($15O,O00) Dollars, divided into One Million Five Hundred Thousand (1,500, ,00O) 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.
 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 suc- 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 pr appoint. -.
 Until the first annual meeting of he stockholders of this Corporation, he annual meetings of such stock holders being hereby designated to be ,eld on the first Monday in Febru- Try of each year, the following named hall constitute the Board of Direc- ors until their successors are elected md have qualified:
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 Wm. P. Mahoney, of Kingman, Ari- ona,
 w. P. Geary of Phoenix, Arizona, Henry Johnson of Kingman, Ari- ona.
 Thereafter the Board of Directors hall be elected from among the of the Corporation at the nnual meeting on the date hereinbe- ore set forth.
 ARTICLE 6.
 The Board of Directors shall have ,ower to adopt and amend Bylaws or the government of the Corpora ion, to fill vacancies occurring in the Ioard from any cs'lse, and to appoint n executive committee with such owers as they may determine. e.
 ARTICLE 2. ]