Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-01-20
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

secretary.
 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION Know All Men By These Presents: That we, the undersigned, having associated ourselves for the purpos, of forming a Corporation under th' laws of the State of Arizona, do here by adopt the following articles of in corporation:
 Article 1.
 The Incorporators are Emily c Chapin, Room TIP, 40 South Michi gan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; Eliza beth S. Gooding, Room TIP, 40 Soutt Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois Homer c. Chapin, Room TIP, 41C South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Il. linois; and the name of the Corpora tion shall be
 ILLINOIS KATHERINE MINING
 COMPANY
 Its principal place of business with in Arizona shall be Kingman, Arizona but other offices may be established and maintained within or outside of Arizona at such places as the Board of Directors may designate, where meetings of stockholders and direc- tors may be held, and any and all cor porate business transacted.
 Article 2.
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted is to-wit:
 (A) Locating, mining milling, concentrating, converting, smelting, reducing, treating, preparing for mar ket, manufacturing, buying, selling, exchanging, importing, exporting, and otherwise producing and dealing in gold, silver, copper, nickel, lead, zinc, brass, iron, steel, coal, coke, man ganese, ores, metals, metallic com pounds, stone, gravel, oil, wood, 1um- Der, and mineral of all kinds, and all or any products or by-products thereof, and any article or articles consisting or partly consisting thereof, . or of any part thereof.
 (B) To acquire, own, lease or oc- cupy in any lawful manner any land, any water, water-power. water rights or records for any purpose whatso- ever, and to lease, sell, exchange, transfer, or in manner whatever dis pose of any or all such lands, leases or rights, either in or outside of the state of Arizona.
 (C) To construct, acquire, own, lease or operate any means of trans portation or communication by air, land or water, for the private use of the Company, except that said Company shall not, under the powers enumerated, have the power to con struct or operate any railroad, tram way, turnpike or canal, except such as may be from its principal works or place of business to some navigable stream, or to some existing railroad, turnpike or public highway.
 O) To manufacture, buy, sell and generally deal in goods, wares, merchandise, property and commod- ities of any and every class and de- scription, and all articles used or use full in connection herewith in so far as may be permitted by the laws of the State of Arizona.
 (E) To improve any and all real estate owned or used by the company with such building or buildings, work ings or constructions as may be deem- ed necessary or expedient by the Board of Directors of the Company, and to alter, repair or add to any building or improvements upon any property owned by or occupied by the company.
 (F) To generally, as principal or agent, institute, enter into, carry on, assist, promote and participate in if nancial, commercial, mercantile and other business works, contracts, un- dertakings and operations.
 co To own, handle and control, letters patent and inventions, trade marks and copyrights, and shares of it's own capital stock, and of the cap ital stock of other corporations, and to vote any shares of stock of other corporations owned by it the same as a natural person might do; to borrow money, and to issue bonds, notes, de- bentures and other evidences of in debtedness, and to secure the payment of same by mortgage, deed of trust or otherwise; to act as agent, trustee, broker or in any other fiduciary capa- city; and in general to do and perform such acts and things, and transact such other business in connection with the foregoing objects, or either or any of them, as are not inconsistent with the law, in any part of the world, and as the Board of Directors may deem to the advantage of the company.
 The foregoing clauses shall be con- strued both as objects and powers,