Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-06-09
ARTICLES or RECONSIDERATION of the .,.

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 FRESNO GOLD MINES COMPANY
 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRE- SENTS: ~ , That we. whose names are hereto af- fixed, do hereby associate ourselves to- gether for the purpose of forming . Corporation under the laws of the State of Arizona. and to that end adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:
 ARTICLE I
 The names and post-office addresses of the Incorporators are: Louis L. Wal lace and L. B. Sage, both of Kingman. Mohave County, Arizona
 The name of the corporation shall be FRESNO GOLD MINES COMPANY.
 Its principal place of business' within the State of Arizona shall be Oatman, Mohave County. State of Arizona, but other offices may be established and within or outside of Arizona, at such places as the Board of Directors may designate, where meetings of stock holders and directors may be held and any and all corporate business transact ed.
 ARTICLE II.
 The general nature of business pro- posed to be transacted by this corpora ton is as follows, to-wit:
 To carry on general mining, milling, smelting and reduction business; to make contracts; to purchase, lease, op- tion, locate, or otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in mines, and mining claims, both lode and placer, mineral lands, coal lands. lands. water and water rights, dam sites and any other property, both real and personal, and to prospect for, work, ex- plore, maintain and develop the ss~-- and to deal in the products and products thereof; to purchase, plat, uiA 1on ndo fn sites; to purchase. lease, or other, acquire, erect, own, operate, and milling, smelting and other ore re, tion works, oil refineries. power pla water works, railroads and tramways to lead from the company's principal works to establish, acquire, build, construct, own, operate, exchange. sell and dispose of hotels, restaurants, stores, commissar- ies, houses. and any and all other build ings and structures of whatsoever kind or nature; to do general manufactur- ing. mercantile and agricultural busi- ness; to own, handle, sell and control letters, patent and inventions; to own, cancel and reissue shares of its own capital stock; and to purchase, or other wise acquire. and to hold, own. sell dispose 9f shares. bonds, debentures, Or other evidences of indebtedness of other and while the holder there- of. to exercise all the rights and privi- leges of ownership. including the right to vote thereon; to issue bonds, notes. to secure the payment of same by mort gage, deed of trust. or otherwise; to act as agent. trustee, broker. or in any other fiduciary capacity, and to borrow and to loan money; and in general to 10 and perform such acts and things and transact such business in connection with the foregoing objects, not inconsis- tent with law, in any part of the world. IS the Board of Directors may deem to the advantage of the corporation.
 ARTICLE III e. l..
 The capital stock of this corporation and No-100 ($15o,000.0o) Dollars, divided into, one million five hundred thousand 1,500,000) shares of the par value of Ten Cents G0c) each; such capital stock may be issued, at such times as the Board of Directors may designate. either for cash. or real or personal property. or services or lease. or option to pur- chase, or any other valuable right or thing, for the uses and purposes, of the and all shares of capital stock so. issued shall therenpon and become and be full-paid, the same as though paid for in cash at par, and shall be non-assessahle for ever, and the judgment of the Directors as to the value of any property, right or thing. acquired in exchange for capital
  sence of actual fraud in the transaction.
 ARTICLE W.
 The time of the commencement of this shall be the date of the is- suance to it of a certificate of incor- poration by tn ARIZONA CORPORA dure for full term of twenty-fi years, thereafter, with privilege of p' petuals succession as provided by law.
 ARTICLE V
 The affairs of the Corporation sh; be conducted by Board of Direoto, consisting of not less than three nor more than seven CD members by whom President, a Vice-President, a Secretary and Treasurer shall be elect ed from among the Stockholders. provid- ed that the offices of Secretary ana Treasurer may be held by the same per son.
 The Board of Directors may from time to time appoint such other officers and agents as to them may seem meet and proper. The Directors shall be elected by and from among the Stockholders at their annual meeting to be held on the first Wednesday in May in each year. and shall hold office for ONE YEAR and until their successors have been elected and have qualified.
 Until the first annual meeting of the have been elected and have qualified, the folloing named persons shall be off cers and Directors as stated:
 J. c. ANDERSON, President and Di- rector, Wm. c. BATES, Vice-President and Director. ROY STACKPOOLE, Sec and Director.
 Prior to the first annual meeting of the stockholders, the Directors in office may appoint other Directors to serv- with them.
 ARTICLE VI
 The Directors shall have the powe to adopt amend and rescind bylaws to fill vacancies occurring in the Boar from any cause, and to appoint iron their own number an executive commit. tee and vest said committee with all the powers granted the Directors by these 
 ARTICLE VII
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which the Corporation may at any one time subject itself is )ne Hundred Thousand ($100, ,00e 00) Dol lars.
 ARTICLE VIII
 The private property of the stockhoid- CTS of the corporation shall be forever exempt from the debts or obligations of the Corporation.
 ARTICLE TX
 These Articles of Incorporation may De amended by a majority vote of the outstanding stock of the corporation at thy regular meeting of the stockholders ,r at any special meeting thereof call d for that purpose.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have lereunto set our hands and seals this