Arizona republican., 1898-01-12
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the
DAVID WARD YUKON ALASKA A
 GOLD MINING COMPANY.

The undersigned, Henry A. Pierce Ezra s. Barnum, John B. King, Charles B. Orvis and Arthur C. Evans, hereby associate and create themselves, their successors and assigns, body corpo- rate and polite, upon the terms and fer the purposes following, to-wit:
 1. The name of ths corporation shall be "The David Ward Yukon Alaska Gold Mining Company" 2. The principal place of business of said corporation shall be Phoenix, Arizona.
 3. The general nature of the busi- ness of said corporation shall be to buy, sell, lease, operate and maintain mines; to build, purchase, lease and operate ships, vessels, wharves and canals; to receive and distribute de- posits of money; to buy and sell any article of merchandise, and to do and perform such other things as may be necessary or proper to the carrying out of any such purposes and anything incidental thereto.
 4. The capital stock of said con- pany shall be ten million Q0,00e, 0OO) dollars, divided into shares of one dol lar (sD each, and such capital stock shall be paid in cash or such property as the company may lawfully hold at it's full value when the same is sub- scribed for
 5. The time of the commencement of said corporation shall be January 10th, A. D., 1898, and It's termination shall be January 10th, A. D., 1948
 6. The affairs of said corporation shall be controlled by a board of five directors, which number may be in- creased to not exceeding nine by a resolution of the board of directors, or a vote of the stockholders. Annual meetings of the stockholders, for the election of the directors shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January of each year, pro- viding, however, that the undersigned corpOrators shall constitute the first board of directors, and shall hold of flee as such unti1 the first annual meeting in A. D., 1899.
 '. The directors of said corporation shall elect president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, general manager, and such other officers for such con- pany, as they may from time to time deem necessary, and the directors shall adopt such bylaws, governing the transaction of the business of said company and the duties and powers of officers, as they may deem expedient.
 8. The highest amount of indebted ness or liability, direct or contingent, to which the corporation may at any time subject itself, IS ten million Q0,000, ,00O dollars.
 g. The private property of the stockholders shall be exempted from the corporate debts of said corpora tion-
 In witnesseth whereof, the under signed corporators have hereunto set their hands and seal this 9th day of January, A. D., 1898.
 HENRY A. PIERCE. (Seal)
 EZRA s. BARNUM. CSeal)
 JOHN B. KING (Seal.)
 CHARLES. B. ORVIS. (seal.)
 A. c. EVANS. (Seal) State of Illinois, County of Will, ss:
 Personally appeared before me. George J. Munroe, notary public, in and for said county and state this fifth day of January, A. D., 1898, Henry A. Pierce, Ezra s. Barnum, John B. King, Charles B. Orvis and Arthur C. Evans, known to me to be the per sons whose names are signed to the foregoing articles of incorporation, and acknowledging to me that they ex- ecuted said articles freely and volun- tarily for the uses and purposes there in named.
 Given under my hand and notarial seal this fin day of January, A. D.. 1898.
 Cseal) GEORGE J. MUNROE, Notary Public. First published in The Arizona Re publican January Il. 1898.