Mohave County miner., 1904-01-02
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Swiss-American Mining Con-
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Know All Men By These Presents, That we, whose hands are hereuntO af1Xed do hereby associate ourselves together TOT the purpose or forming corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona. and to that end make the following statement
 FIRST: The names of the corporators are E. B, Smith, Jacob Baumann, Jr, Henry Hughes, C. J. Greene and Albert V. Baumann, and the name of the Corporation shall be Swiss American Mining Company. The principal place within the Territory of Arizona in which the business of said Corporation is to be trans acttd is kingman Mohave County, Arizona, and the Corporation may establish branch of. fees either within or without the Territory of Arizona where meetings of the Board of Di- rectors may be held .
 SECOND: The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this Corporation is as follows, to-wit:
 To make contracts; 70 purchase, lease, bond, locate or otherwise acquire, own, exchange sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge. mortgage hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines, mining claims, oil lands, coal lands, mineral lands, Oil gas, coal, shale, asphaltum, petroleum, as bestoS, salt, water and water rights and ma chinery, and to work, mine, explore, operate and develop the same; and in general to do all things necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this Corporation in the Territory and elsewhere not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the Territory of Ar- ZOna.
 THIRD: The authorized amount of capital SJOCk OI CnlS Sudll Dc one HllllOu three hundred thousand dollars (Sl,3OO,OOO) divided into 100000 shares of the par value of one dollars ($l.OO) each. At such times as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this Cor pOratiOn, either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said Corporation, in payment for which shares of the capital stock of said corporation may be issued, and the cap ital stock so issued shall thereupon and there by become and be fully paid up and non assess able, and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 FOURTH: The time of the commencement of this Corporation shall be the date of the filing of a certified copy of these Articles of h. corporation according to law, and the termina- tion thereof shall be twenty-five years there after.
 FIFTH: The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by Board of Five Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected : F.. B. Smith. c. J. Greene, Jacob Baumann, Jr Henry Hughes and Albert V. Baumann. There after the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders on the first day in September of each year. The officers of said Corporation until their successors are elected shall be: Jacob Baumann, Jr., President; c. J. Greene, Vice-Presldent; Albert V. Baumann Secretary; E. B. Smith, Treasurer.
 SIXTH: The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent to which this corporation is at any time subject shall be Twenty Five Thousand dollars (S25, ,00O), which amount does not exceed twO-thirdS the amount of the capital stock.
 SEVENTH: The private property of the stockholders of this Corporation shall be ex- empt from corporate debts of any kind what. SOeVer.
 In Witl ess Whereof We have hereunto set our hands and seals this 24th day of November, lY03