Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-04-14

pose of forming corporation under the laws of the State of Arizona, and here by adopt the following Articles of h. corporation:
 The name of this corporation is OAT- MAN HILLTOP GOLD MINES, INC. ARTICLE IT.
 The names, residences and post office addresses of the incorporators are: M. B. DUDLEY, Kingman. Mohave County, Arizona BERYL MORTLOCK, of the same place.
 ARTICLE III. The principal place of business of this corporation within the State of Arizona shall be Kingman, Mohave County, State of Arizona; but other offices may be es- tablished and maintained within or with out the State of Arizona at such places as the Board of Directors may desig- nate, where meetings of stockholders and directors may be held and any and all corporate business transacted. | ARTICLE ". ] The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted is as follows, 1 to-wit:
 To carry on a general mining, milling, smelting and reduction business; to make contracts; to purchase lease. To- cate or otherwise acquire, own, ex- change, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage hypothecate and deal in mining claims and mines, both lode principal works: to establish, acquire, and placer. mineral lands, coal ls nds. oil | lands, timber lands, agricultural lands, water and water-right, dam sites, and any other property, both real and per Sonal, and to prospect for, work, explore, operate, maintain and develop the same, and to deal in the products thereof: to purchase. plat, subdivide, sell, lease and control lands and townsites; to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, erect own, operate and sell milling, smelting and other ore reduetion>works, oil refineries | plants. ra de md | tramways to lead from the companys build, construct, own, operate. exchange sell and dispose of hotels. restaurants stores and commissaries houses and any and all other buildings and struo- | lures of whatsoever kind or nature; to do a general manufacturing, mercantile and agricultural business; to own, sell, handle and control letters patent and inventions; to own. sell. cancel and re- issue shares of its own stock and to purchase or otherwise acquire, and to hold. own. sell, assign. mortgage. pledge or otherwise dispose of shares. bonds, debtedness, of other corporations and while the holder thereof to exercise all the rights and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon; to issue bonds. notes and other evidences of indebtedness and to secure the pay ment of the same by mortgage, deed of trust or otherwise; to act as agent, trustee, broker or in any other fiduciary CdQaClky, AHQ IO pOrFOW ana loan money. and in general to do and perform such acts and things and transact such bus mess in connection with the foregoing objects not inconsistent with law in any part of the world. as the Loard of Directors may deem to the advantage of the corporation.
 ARTICLE V. II The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation snail be One Hun dred Fifty Thousand Dollars (s150.- 000.0e), divided into One Million Five Hundred Thousand G,500,000) shares of the par value of Ten Gents Q0c) each, which shall be paid in at such time as the Board of Directors may designate, in cash, real or personal property, ser ] vices, lease, option to purchase. or any other valuable right or thing for the use and purposes of the corporation; and all shares of capital stock when issued in exchange therefor shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up, the same as though paid for in cash at par, and shall be non-assessabel for ever and the judgment of the directors as to the value of any property. right or thing acquired in exchange for cap ital stock shall be conclusive. ARTICLE VI. The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the day upon which a certificate of incorporation is issued by the Arizona Corporation Commission, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter. with the !, law.
 ARTICLE VII In furtherance, and not in limitation, of the powers conferred by statute, the affairs of the corporation shall be con- ducted by Board of Directors, consist ing of not less than Three (3) nor more than Nine (s) members. each of whom , shall be. stockholder of record. who of election, or until their successors are elected and have qualified. The direc- tors shall be elected annually by the stockholders on the second Tuesday in | January of each year. The first Board of Directors shall be selected by the i'm corporators as soon as convenient after the filing of these Articles of Incor- poration with the Arizona Corporation Commission, and shall hold office until the first annual meeting of the stock holders, or until their successors are elected and have qualified. and such board shall be composed of not less than Three (3) nor more than Nine (9) mem- bers, as the incorporators shall deter mine.
 The stockholders, at each annual meet ing thereof, shall by resolution fix the Three (3) nor more than Nine (9), to serve for the ensuing year, and shall elect the number of directors so fixed in said resolution.
 The officers of this corporation shall be President, vice-President, Sec retary and Treasurer, to be elected by the Board of Directors. The Secretary and Treasurer may be one person, and need not be a stockholder.
 ARTICLE VIII.
 The directors shall adopt Bylaws for the government of this corporation, with full power to amend the same; they are vested with power to fill vacancies oc- curing in the Board of Directors from any cause ,and to appoint from their own number an executive committee, which. to the extent provided for by the Board of Directors either by re- solution or Bylaws, shall have and exercise full power of the Board of Directors.
 ARTICLE TX.
 The corporation indebtedness shall at no time exceed two-thirds of the amount of its capital stock.
 ARTICLE x.
 The private property of the stock holders and officers of this corporation shall be and is hereby made forever exempt from the debts of the corpora tion.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. we have hereunto set our hands this 3rd day of March, A. D. 1922.
 M B. DUDLEY. BERYL MORTLOCK. STATE OF ARIZONA.