The original smelter which burned in 1879
Be it known that Noah Armstrong, John Thomas, Horace R. Allen, William P. Johnson, Aquilla Jones, William O. Rockwood, Charles B. Parkman, Matthew Baird and Elias C. Atkins have associated themselves together to form an incorporated company under the provisions of an act of the general assembly of the State of Indiana Entitled “an act for the Incorporation of Manufacturing and Mining Companies and Companies for Mechanical , Chemical and Building purposes” approved May 20, 1852 and all subsequent acts amendatory thereto and certify as following:
1.) Said association adopt and shall be known by the name of the Hecla Consolidated Mining Company. 
2.) The object if the formation of this company is to carry on the business of mining gold, silver, copper, lead and other metals and minerals and of extracting the same from ores and minerals and such other manufactured as the interests of said company may require and to these ends to acquire and hold in its corporate name lands leases, water powers and all other property and affrustenances necessary or proper for any of said purposes to erect and maintain on said lands, lease holds, and water powers hoses mills smelting and other furnaces reduction works and any and all other kinds of machinery and establishment suitable for mechanical mining and other purposes. Also to maintain such stores and transact such general merchandizing and exchange business as may be necessary in the purchase of ores and the sale and disposition of the various products of the mines and reduction works of the company. Also to construct and maintain all ditches, roads, railroads, tramways, and other works useful or convenient for the prosecution of the general business of the company and to carry on it’s operation in any state or territory of the United States of America.
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The further object of said incorporation is the purchase and consolidation of under one general management of the following named mining claims and properties situate in Beaverhead County, Montana Territory:
The Cleve, Avon, Alta, Atlantis, Hecla, Cleopatra, *****, Mark Antony, and a portion or all of the Trapper mining claims. The Cleve and Cleopatra mill sites of five acres each . The Mill privileges of Trapper and Canyon Creek mill site and sampling and reduction works stone mill buildings, furnaces, shops, stables, assay office, and all appurtenances as heretofore owned and operated by Dahler Armstrong and Company at Glendale Montana said mining claims and other property being appraised at the sum of five hundred thousand dollars.
3.) The capital stock of said corporation shall be five hundred thousand dollars divided into shares of fifty dollars each. Each share shall be entitled to one vote and the stock shall be subject to reassessment whatever…..***
4.) The affairs of the company shall be managed by a president and nine directors to be elected according to law. The president shall be elected by the board of directors from their own number. The directors to manage such affairs for the first year shall be Noah Armstrong, John Thomas, Horace R. Allen, William P Johnson, Aquilla Jones, William O. Rockwood, Charles B. Parkman, Matthew Baird, and Elias C. Atkins, who shall continue in office until the company shall elect new directors according to law. The directors shall have power except as otherwise required by law to appoint a secretary-treasurer, general agent, superintendent, and such other officers as the business of the company may require and to fix the compensations of all officers and employees and to remove and discharge the same at pleasure.
5.) The principle office of the company shall be at the city of Indianapolis, Marion County State of Indiana unless changed by two-thirds vote of the stockholders and the mining and manufacturing operations of the company maybe conducted in any state or territory of the United States under the direction of the President and directors from the principle office aforesaid and all returns shall be made and all accounts conducted and dividends declared and paid at said office.
6.) The following is an impression of the seal adopted by said company as it’s corporate seal.
7.) The undersigned have subscribed for and agree to purchase and pay to the treasurer of said company at its fair value the number of shares of the capital stock of said corporation placed opposite are several names.
Noah Armstrong 2,323 shares valued at 116,150
John Thomas 629 shares valued at 31,450 W. P. Johnson 914 shares valued at 45,700
H.R. Allen 1,829 shares valued at 91,450
Aquilla Jones 105 shares valued at 5,250
William O. Rockland 105 shares valued at 5,250
C. B. Parkman 105 shares valued at 5,250
M. Baird 1,667 shares valued at 83,350
Elias C. Atkins 2,323 shares valued at 116,150
In testimony whereof we have herewith set our hands and seals this second day of January One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Seven
Noah Armstrong
John Thomas
Aquilla Jones
William O. Rockwood
C. B. Parkman
H.R. Allen
Elias C. Atkins
M. Baird
W.P. Johnson
State of Indiana, Marion County SS;
Before me, Wm. McCorbaley, a notary public in and for said county, this second day of January 1877, personally appeared Noah Armstrong, Aquilla Jones, William O. Rockwood, Charles B. Parkman, and Elias C. Atkins and acknowledged the execution of the annexed certificate of incorporation.
Witness my hand and notorial seal this second day of January 1877.
Wm. McCorbaley
Notary Public
State of Pennsylvania
City and County of Philadelphia
Be it remembered that on this Ninth Day of January A. D. 1877 before me Samuel B. Huey a commissioner for the state of Indiana residing in the said city, county and state duly commissioned and qualified personally appeared Horace R. Allen, William P. Johnson, and Matthew Baird parties to the foregoing instrument and severally acknowledged the execution of the same.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and offered my official seal the day and year aforesaid.
Sam B. Huey
A comm.for Indiana in Pennsylvania |
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