Mohave County miner., 1905-03-11

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 forming corporation under the laws of the ieTrltory 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. 0. D. MINING COMPANY and it's principal | place of transacting business shall be in the IoWn Of kingman, County of Mohave, Territory | or Arlzona, but said corporation may establish and maintain offices, transact it's business and | hold its 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.
 g. To buy. rent, lease. erect. maintain, man
 
 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. g. 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. 4. To buy rent, lease build. construct own, hold, maintain, manage and operate telephone and telegraph lines and such other means of n1rlr1o ol1nic be in existence and to conduct and carry on a general merch, ndise business,
 3. 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 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. erally to do and perform all legal acts that may or any part thereof.
 The capital stock of this corporation shall be One Million (SlOCO,OOO) Dollars, divided into one Million q. .OOOO O shares of the par value of One Dollar (S1) each Said capital stock shall be paid in within two (2) 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 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 torlal Auditor and it's termination shal, be upon the expiration of the period of twenty-five (25) years next following said time of com mence mont. The officers by whom the affairs of this cor | poratlon 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, aLd d said Directors shall | hold once for one year and until their success ors are elected and qualified, and if from any cause vacarcy should occur in the said Board it may be filled by the election of another stockholder to the office of Director but of the remaining Directors shall be present and vote at said election.
 The officers of said corporation shall consist of a President. a lst 2nd Vice President, Secretary a Treasurer and General Manager. The President and both Vice.PresidentS 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 Off, Pres dent and Director, w. H. Taggart, 1st Vice. President Treasurer and Director, John Lynch 2nd Vice President and Director. Howard W. kemper, Secretary and Director, Dr. C. F Taggart. Director, Otto F. Kueucer, Di. ector and A. Yer Mehr, Director.
 Sai0 Board of Directors shall have full power o make and adopt Bylaws and all rules and necestary for the legal and proper of the business of the corporation The highest amount of indebtedness or lia )ility to which this corporation shall at any lime subject its elf is Two Hundred and Fifty , (S25O, ,0O0) Dollars.
 VIII
 The private property of the corporators, stockholders and officers Of said corporation. md each and every of them. shall, at all times, ,e exempt from all and singular, each and , very the corporate debts of said corporation. In Witness Whereof, the said corporators I lave hereunto set their hands this 18th day of f A. D. 19O5 f
 A. YER MEHR, t
 HOWARD w. KEMPER S9It9y ,9 of Mdi., Arizona, ss. Before me, Ross H. Blakely. a Notary Public ] ] D and for the County of Mohave, Territory of q ArzOna, on this day personally appeared A. | Ter Mehr and Howard w. kemper, known to