The border vidette., 1925-02-21
ARTICLES or INCORPORATION


KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
That we. the undersigned, having as.
ISOLATED ourselves for the purpose of
forming a corporation under the laws
OF the State Ut Arizona do hereby adopt
the following Articles OF Incorporation;
ARTICLE I. The Incorporators are:
Nate McCutchan,
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
]. E. McCutchan,
Tulsa. Oklahoma.
O. A. Flanagan.
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
and the name OF the corporation shall
be THE OTATE MINING COMPANY
Its principal place of business within
the State OF Arizona shall be NOgales,
Arizona, but other offices may be es-
tablished and maintained within or
outside the State OF Arizona and at
such places as the Board OF Directors
may designate. where meetings OF stock.
holders and directors and any and all
corporate business transacted.
ARTICLEII. The general nature ri
the business proposed to be transacted
by this corporation is that OF mining,
milling, converting, preparing for
market, and otherwise prod ucing and
dealing in gold, silver. copper. lead,
| zinc, brass. iron, steel, and all kinds of
ore. metals, and minerals. oils. gas and
coal, and the products and by.products
thereof; the corporation shall have
power to purchase, lease, or otherwise
acquire, own, exchange, mortgage,
| by pothecate, sell. lease and otherwise
dispose o: and deal in mines and min
| eral lands of ell kinds. oil. coal and
timber lands, real and personal prop
| erty. water and water rights. and to
work. explore, operate and develop the
same; to purchase or otherwise acquire,
erect. own, operate. and dispose OF
smelting and other ore reduction works,
| oil re6neries. saw mills, and power
plants; to acquire own and hold ranch
and agricultural lands, and all other
kinds OF real estate, and any estate
| therein, and to sell, mortgage. lease,
or otherwise dispose OF the same; to
purchase and own shares of its own
capital stock, and that of other COR
pOratiOns, and to vote any shares OF q
stock owned and held by it in other
corporations, the same as natural
person might or could do; and in gen.
eral to do and perform any and Hil of
such acts and things and to transact
such business in connection with the
foregoing objects, not inconsistent with
law, in the State of Arizona. and any
other state or territory Of the United
States OF America, and in any state Of
the Republic of Mexico and elsewhere,
as tie Board OF Directors OF said COR
poration may deem to be to the ad.
vantage OF the corporation.
ARTICLE III. The capital stock Of
OF the corporation shall be One Million
Dollars, divided into One Million shares
of the par value OF One (Sl.OO) Dollar
each, which shall be paid in at snch
times as the Board of Directors may
designate, in cash, real or personal
property. services. leases, option to
purchase, or any other valuable right
or thing, for the use and purposes OF
the corporation. and all shares OF cap.
ital stock, when issued in exchange
therefor, shall. thereupon ard thereby
become and be fuli.paid the same as
though paid for in cash at par, and
shall be non. assessable forever, and the
jud gment of the directors as to the
value Of any property. right or thing
acquired in exchange for capital stock
shall be conclusive.
ARTICLE ". The commencement
of the corporation shall be the date of
the issuance tOit OF certificate of in.
corporation by the Arizona Corporation
Commission. and it shall endure for the
full term OF Twenty five years there
after, with privilege OF perpetual sue.
cessation as provided by statute.
ARTICLE V The affairs OF the COR
porstion shall be conducted by Board
of Directors and such officers as the
said directors may elect or appoint.
The number of directors shall be de.
signated by the bylaws and shall be
elected from among the stockholders
at their annual meeting to be held on
the 9Th day Of January Of each year.
Until the irst annual meeting of the
stock holders and until their successors
have been elected and, have qualified,
the following named persons shall be
the officers and directors: Nate Mo
Cutchan, Floyd T.. Thompson, j. E.
McCutchsn and 0. A. Flanagan.
ARTICLE vi. The directors shall
have power to adopt, amend and reciud
bylaws. To fill vacancies occurring In
the board from any cause, and to ap-
point from their own number an ex.
ecutive committee az managing di-
rector. or both. with all the powers
granted the directors by these articles
ARTICLE VII. The highest am.
cunt of indebtedness or liability to
which the corporation may at any one
time subject itself Is Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
ARTICLE TX. This corporation does
hereby appoint Malcolm c Little of
Nogales. Arizona who has been bona
fde resident Of the State of Arizona
for at least three years its lawful agent
| In and for the State OF Arizona. for and
in behalf of said company, to accept
! and acknowledge Of, and upon whom