Mohave County miner., 1905-03-18
Articles of incorporation The C. O. D. Mining Com
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First insertion Dec, 31

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 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
 That we. the undersigned. have voluntarily | associated ourselves together for the purpose of 1Torm;ag Ta t corporation under the laws of the | Ierrltory or 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 | Iown or klngman: County of MOhave Territory | of Arizona but said corporation may establish ana maintain offices, transact its business and 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.
 9 To buy, rent, lease, erect, maintain, man age operate and control such buildings, mills. | smelters, machinery and appliances as may be deemed necessary, proper or requisite by the
 
 ores and to extract the values from the same. g. To buy, rent, lease, build, erect, operate e, manage and control all tramways and other means and me thodS of transportation or loco- motion necessary to the transaction of said business or any part of the same. 4. To buy. rent lease, build. construct own, nold, maintain, managt 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 a general merchs ndise business ,. To b rrOw money, issue bonds and secure the same by mortgage or otherwise.
 6. 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.
 z. To buy and sell, hold and own shares of 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 ($l 0OOO) Dollars divided into one Million N.OO0OlO) shares of the par value of One Dollnr tS1) each. Said capital stock shall be paid in within two @ months from 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 tse 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- poratl0n are filed m the office of the County Recorder of Mohave County, and certified copy, of the same are filed with the Terri torial Auditor and it's termination shal, be upon the expiration of the period of twenty-five (25) years next following said time of com- menct m mt. The officers by whom the affairs of this cor porat1On are to be conducted shall consist of a Board of Seven CD directors, who shall be elected at the annual meeting of the Stock holders to be held on the second Wednesday in February of each year, aL d said Directors shall hold office for one year and until their success. ors are elected and qualified, and if from any cause vacar cy should occur in the said Board 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. n 1St a d 2nd Vice President | Secretary, Treasurer and a General Manager | The President and both Vice-Presdents 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. of, Pres. | ident and Director, w. H. Taggart, st Vice. treasurer anG Director. John Lynch | 2nd Vice President and D rector. Howard w. | Kemper, Secretary and Director. Dr. C. F | Taggart. Director Otto F. Kuercer, Director and A. Yer Mehr, Director
 Said Board of Directors shall have full power to make and adopt Bylaws and all rules and necestary for the legal and proper transaction of the business of the corporation.
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 The highest amount of indebtedness or lia- bility to which this corporation shall at any time subject its elf is Two Hundred and Fifty (S25O,00O) Dollars.
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 The private property of the cOrporatOrs, and officers of said corporation, and each and every of them, shall, at all times, 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. 1905
 A. YER MEHR,
 HOWARD w. KEMPER.