Mohave County miner., 1905-04-08
Articles of incorporation The C. O. D. Mining Com
 pany.


 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we. the undersigned. have voluntarily associated ourselves together for the purpose or forming corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona. and we hereby adopt the following as the Articles of such incorporation and certify and declare:
 That the names of the corporators are A. VerMehr and Howard w. kemper.
 The name of said corporation shall be The c. o. D. MINING COMPANY and it's principal place of transacting business shall be in the Town of kingman. County of MohaVe, Territory of Arizona, but said corporation may establish and maintain offices transact its business ana hold it's Directors meetings in any other Of the States and Territories of the United States of America as the directors may designate.
 III
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by said corporation shall be as follows to-wit:
 l. To locate, bond, lease. rent acquire pros pect. buy sell, own, hold manage control operate. improve and develop mines and min ing claims and to buy and sell the products of the same.
 age, operate and control such buildings, mills smelters, machinery and appliances as may be deemed necessary proper or requisite by the directors to mill, reduce, concentrate or Smelt ores and to extract Jhe values from the same. 3. To buy, rent, lease, build. erect operate, manage and control all tramways and other means and m, thodS of ansportatlon or loco. notion necessary to the transaction or Salu business or any part of the same f.. To buy rent, lease, build, construct, own, hold, maintan m mage and operate telephone and telegraph lines and such other means of rapid communication as may now or hereafter be in existence and to conduct and carry on general merch ndiSe business 5. To b rrow money, issue bonds and secure the same Dy mortgage otherwise. G. To locate, buy, take up hold rent, lease or otherwise acquire and occupy such landS. premises and real estate as may be necessary | or convenient for the above named purposes or any thereof.
 q TO buy and sell. hold and own shares of stock in this and other corporations and gen. erally to do and perform all legal acts that may be necessary to the transaction of said business | or any part thereof
 | The capital stock of this corporation shall be One Million (Si ,OO0,000) Dollars, divided into me Million N.OOOO O shares of the par value | of One Doler tS1) each. Said capital stock | shalt be paid in within two @ mouths from the date of the filing of certified copy of these | Articles If Incorporation with the Territorial Auditor. either in cash or by the sale and trans fer to the corporation of real or personal prop | erty or other valuable thing, for the uses ana | benefit of said corporation. in payment Tor | which shares of the capital stock of said cor poration may be issued. The Judgment Of the | Directors as to the value of the property thus
  so issued in payment for e roperty or pur- poses af oresaid shall be fully paid and non-as. sesSable.
 The time of the commencement of this cor poration shall be when these Articles of Incor- poratOn are filed n the office of the County | Recorder of Mohave County and a certified copy of the same are filed With the Ierri, | torial Auditor and it's termination shall be upon the expiration of the period of twenty y-hve | (25) years next following said time of com- me n tf ment
 The officers by whom the affairs of this cor puratiOn are to be conducted shall consist or a | Board of Seven CD directors, who shall De elected at the annual meeting of the stock holders to be held on the second Wednesday Tn | February of each year, al d said Directors shall hold office for one year and until their success ors are elected aud qualified, and If rom any cause vaca' cy should occur in the said Board it may be filled by the electlnn CT another stockholder to the office of Director but a majority of the remaining Directors shall be present and vote at said election
 The officers of said corporation shall consist of President. q lst d 2nd Vice President Secretary. a Treasurer and a General Manager. The President and both Vice-Presidents shall be Directors.
 The officers, who shall serve until the An nual Meeting of the corporation to be held at the time aforesaid. shall be J. w. A. on, Pres jdent and Director, w. H. Taggart, lst Vice President. Treasurer and Director, John Lynch
  Kemper, Secretary and Director, Dr. C. r. Taggart. Director, Otto F. Kue. cer, Director and A. Yer Mehr, Director.
 Said Board of Directors shall have full power to make and adopt Bylaws and all rules ano regulations necessary for the legal and proper transaction of the business of the corporation
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 The highest amount of indebtedness or lla bility to which this corporation shall at any time subject its elf is Two Hundred ana flftS Thousand (S250,00O) Dollars.
 VIII The private property of the corporatorS stockholders and officers of said corporation and each and every of them. shall, at all times be exempt from all and singular, each anC every the corporate debts of said corporation In Witness Whereof, the said corporators have hereunto set their hands this 18th day o February. A. D. 1905.
 A. YER MEHR, HOWARD w. kEMPER. Territory of Arizona SS
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