Mohave County miner., 1905-03-25
Articles of incorporation The C. O. D. Mining Com
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 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 its 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 hold it's Directors meetings in any other of the States and Territories of the United States of
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 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.
 ? To buy. rent. lease erect. maintain, man age, operate and control such buildings, mills smelters, machinery and appliances 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 transportation or loco motion necessary to the transaction Of said business or any part of the same.
 I. To buy. rent, lease, build construct, own, hold, maintain, m Image 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,
 ;. To borrow 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.
 2. To buy and sell, hold and own shares of orally 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 CSl OOO OOO) Dollars divided into one Million O.OOOO,O) shares of the par value of One Dollar (S1) each. Said capital stock shall be paid in within two @ months 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 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 tre property or pur- poses aforesaid shall be fully paid and non-as- SeSSable.
 The time of the commencement of this cor poratOn shall be when these Articles of IncOr- poration are filed in 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 shall be upon the expiration of the period of twenty-five (2O years next following said time Of com me n3ement
 The officers by whom the affairs of this cor pOration are to be conducted shall consist of 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, and said Directors shall hold office for one year and until their success. Ors are elected and qualified, and 1T from any cause vacar cy 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. 1st 2nd Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and a General Manager: The President and both VicePresidents 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. OH, Pres ident and Director, w. H. Taggart, 1st Vice President, Treasurer ana Director, John Lynch 2nd Vice President and D rector. Howard ". Kemper, Secretary and Director, pr. C. Taggart. Director Otto F. Kueucer, Director | and A. Yer Mehr, Director Said 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 bilty to which this corporation shall at any | time subject its elf is Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand (S250,0OO Dollars. 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 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. ID. 1905.
 A. YER MEHR, HOWARD w. KEMPER Territory of Arizona,l ss
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 Before me, Ross H. Blakely. a Notary Public | in and for the County of Mohave, Territory of