Mohave County miner., 1905-03-04

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 of 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 it's business and States and Territories of the United States of America as the directors may designate.
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 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by said corporation shall be as follows tO-wit:
 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.
 g. To buy. rent, lease erect, maintain, man. ago. 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 the values from the same.
 B. To buy, rent, lease, build, erect, operate, manage and control all tramwayS and other means and methods of trans sportation or loco. motion necessary to the transaction of said business or any part of the same
 f. To buy. rent, lease, build, construct, own, hold, maintain, manage and operate telephone ar fnl lnurO OVNh1 1nn and c,n1 nfhn of rapid communication as may now or hereafter be in existence and to conduct and carry on a general merchs ndise business,
 D. To borrow money issue bonds and secure the same by mortgage or otherwise.
 t. 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.
 2. To buy and sell, hold and own shares of stock in this and other corporations and gen. be necessary to the transaction of said business or any part thereof.
 The capital stock of this corporation shall be One Million ($l,0CO,000) Dollars, divided into "ne Million G.OOO0t0) shares of the par value of One Dollar lSl each. Said capital stock shall be paid in within two @ months from the date of the filing of certified copy of these Articles of 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 and benefit of said corporation. in payment for 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 purchased shall be final and said capital stock so issued in payment for t'e property or pur- poses aforesaid shall be fully paid and non-as' SeSsable.
 The time of the commencement of this cor poration shall be when these Articles of Incor- poration are filed !n the office of the County Recorder of Mohave County, and certified copy of the same are filed with the Terri torial Auditor and its termination shal, be upon the expiration of the period of twenty-five C95) years next following said time of com menct ment.
 The officers by whom the affairs of this cor poratiOn are to be conducted shall consist of Board of Seven CD directors, who shall De elected at the annual meeting of the Stock holders to be held on the second Wednesday in February of each year, and said Directors shall hold office for one year and until their success ors are elected aud qualified, and if from any cause vacancy should occur in the said Board it may be filled by the election of another stockholder to the office of Director but majority of the remaining Directors shall be present and vote at said election.
 The officers of said corporation shall consist of President. lst a 2nd Vice. President, Secretary, a Treasurer and General Manager. The President and both Vice-Presidents shall
 
 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. Of, Pres ident and Director, w. H Taggart, lst Vice. President. Treasurer and Director, John Lynch 2nd Vice President and D rector. Howard W. Kemper, Secretary and Director, Dr. C. F Taggart Director, Otto F. Kueucer, Dil ectOr and A. Yer Mehr, Director.
 Sai6 Board of Directors shall have full power to make and adopt Bylaws and all rules and regulations necestary for the legal and proper transaction of the business of the corporation The highest amount of indebtedness or lia- time subject its elf is Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand O,OO0) Dollars.
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 The private property of the corporatOrs, stockholders and officers of said corporation. be exempt from all and singular, each and every the corporate debts of said corporation. In Witness Whereof, the said corporators have hereunto set their hands this 18th day of February. A. D. 1O5
 A. YER MEHR,
 HOWARD w. KEMPER. Teprit9ry SGrn9r yo9 of MnbsHa' Arizona ss.
 Before me, Ross H. Blakely. Notary Public in and for the County of Mohave, Territory of Arizona, on this day personally appeared A. Yer Mehr and Howard w. kemper, known to me to be the persons whose names are Sub- Scribed to the foregoing instrument, and ack. nOwledged to me that they had executed the fnr fhn md