Mohave County miner., 1905-04-22
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Rattan Mining Company.

Know all Men by these Presents, That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose or forming corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the 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 towit:
 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 rroperty. 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 l chinery, and to work, mine, explore, operate and develop the same; and in general to do all | things necessary to the proper conduct or the business ot this Corporation in the Territory | and elsewhere, not inconsistent with the laws | of the United States and the Territory Of Ari ZOna
 | Third: The authorized amount of capital stock of this Corporation shall be One Hundred Thousand dollars (Sl00.O000O) divided into One | Hundred Thousand shares of the par value of | One dollar ($l.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 transaction the judgment of the Directors as to 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 a certified copy of these Articles of Incor poration according to law, ana the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter
 Fifth The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of Thlee Directors and the following named shall consttute the Board of Directors until their successors arc elected: John Boyle, Jr., Rudolph Hartmann Jr.. and A. Cogho. Thereafter the Board oi Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders on the first Tuesday in October O. each year. The officers of said Corporation un til their successors are elected shall be Johr Boyle. Jr.. President; A. Cogho Vice President Rudolph Hartmann, Secretary and Treasurer. Sixth: The highest amount of indebtedness , or liability, direct or contingent to which thl' Corporation is at any, time subject shall ot Fifty Thousand Dollars tS5O0OO.00). whici amount doeS not exceed twothirdS the amoun of the capital stock.
 Seventh The private property of the stock
 holders of this Corporation shall be exemp from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever
 In Witness Whereof We have hereunto SC
 our hands and seals this 18th day of March 1905
 JOHN BOYLE, JR (Seal
 RUDOLPH HARTMANN, JR. (Seal