Mohave County miner., 1905-03-25
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Rattan Mining Company.

Know all Men by these Presents, That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed do nereu! associate ourselves together for tn purpose O. forming a corporation under the llws Ot the Territory of Arizona and to that en1 make th following statement:
 First: The names of the corporators are: John Boyle Jr., and Rudolph Hartmann. Jr., and the name of the Corporation shall be RAT TAN MINING COMPANY. The principal place within the Territory of Arizona in which the business of said Corporation is to be transacted is Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona and the Corporation may establish branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona where meetings of the Board of Directors 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; to 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 roperty. mines, min ing 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
 stock of this Corporation shall be One Hundred
 Thousand dollars (Sl0O000.0O divided into One
 Hundred Thousand shares of the par value of
 One dollar (Sl.0O) 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 trans
 fer to it of real or personal property for the
 uses and purposes of said Corporation, in pay
 ment for which shares of the capital stock of
 said corporation may be issued and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby
 become and be fully paid up and non-assess- able and in the absence of actual fraud in the fpn Dnf hn l16n nf Grnn
 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 certified copy of these Articles of Incor- poration according to law, and the termination tAereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter. Fifth: The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of Three Directors, and the following named shall cOnst tute the Board of Directors until their successors are
 elected: John Boyle, Jr., Rudolph Hartmann,
 Jr., and A. Cogho. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders on the first Tuesday in October of
 each year. The officers of said Corporation un. til their successors are elected shall be John Boyle. Jr. President; A. Cogho, Vice. President; Rudolph Hartmanu, Secretary and Treasurer. Sixth: The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent, to which thlS Corporation is at any time subject shall be
 Fifty Thousand Dollars (S5O,OU0OO) which
 amount does not exceed two-thirds the amount Ol Iiic CdplUdl SJOCh.
 Seventh: The private property of the stock holders of this Corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever. In Witness Whereof, We have hereunto set hands and seals this 18th day of March. 1905. JOHN BOYLE, JR. (Seal) RUDOLPH HARTMANN, JR (Seal)
 STATE OF MISSOURI, !ss
 City of St. Louis. SS'
 On this 18th day of March, in the year 1905, before me, Bernard G. Farrar, a Notary Public in an0 for the State and County aforesaid, re- siding therein, duly commissioned and sworn,
 personally appeared John Boyle, Jr. and Ru- dOlph Hartmann, Jr., known to me to be the persons described in, whose names are sub. scribed to, and who executed the annexed in strument, and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same tor the purposes and considerations therein expressed In Witness Whereof, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, at my office. | in the said State and City, the day and year | last above written.
 (SeaD BERNARD G. FAIRFAX, Notary Public My Commission expires February 8th, 1909. | Recorded at reQues, of A. H. Smith. March | l6th, A. D. 1905, at o'clock a.. m. in Book ? | page 260 of records of Mohave County. Arizona | Territory. THOMAS MCNEELY, County Recorder. First insertion Mar ch 18th, 1905. Last insertion April 22