Mohave County miner., 1910-11-26
Ruth Gold Mines Company.


 KNow ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS; That we. Clarence Camp and Carl B. Van Deman, have this day associated ourselves togtt ther for the purpose of becoming a body corporate under and by virtue of the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and for that purpose do hereby adopt the following as the Articles of Incorporation
 ARTICLE ONE. The name of the corporation shall be Ruth Gold Mines Company.
 ARTICLE TWO. The principal place of business shall be at the Town of kingman, County of MOhave, Ter ritory of Arizona, with branch offices at Los Angeles. California, and such other places in any or all Of the States or Territories Of the United States, or in any foreign country at the discretion of the Board of Directors, and any such offices may be made transfer ofices and fiscal agencies.
 ARTICLE THREE. The general nature of the business for which | this corporation is formed is to acquire real estate, mines, mining claims, personal and mixed property, coal and oil lands, or any other mineral substance or deposit, milling, refining, mining, or dealing any and all kinds of mineral or its product, and to pros pect, develop, trr1gate, or cultivate or other wise improve their properties and to dispose of any of its holdings in any manner satisfactory to the Board of Directors; merchandising or traffic of any kind, or construction work in any of its branches; to issue bonds or mortgages or any form of indebtedness, and to secure the payment of the same in any manner devised by its Board of Directors, it being the intention of the incOrporatorS to be authorized to carry on and do any business which the Board of Direc- tors may deem advisable that an individual or corporation might or may be permitted to do, excepting only such business as the laws of the Territory of Arizona provide for by special charter The corporation is also authorized to act as Trustee in any capacity, and the Board of Directors. if they accept the trust, are au- thorized to give such bond as may be required by the authority creating the trust.
 ARTICLE FOUR
 The amount of Capital Stock of the said cor pOratiOn shall be One Million (SlOO0,0OO Dol lars, divided into one million shares of the par value of One Dollar (sl.OOl per share, and said stock shall be fully paid in at the date of it's issuance. and said stock or any portion thereof may be paid for in money or Tn the purchase exchange or transfer of real or personal proper ty, or in labor or for services rendered, or in any other valuable right or thing, and in the absence of fraud in the transaction, the judg. ment of the Board of Directors as to the value of any property purchased. exchanged or trans ferred. or labor or services rendered or other right or thing received in payment of capital stock shall be conclusive and when so paid for said stock shall be forever nOn-assessable.
 ARTICLE FIVE
 The time of commencement of said corpora tion shall be the date of the hllng Of the certi- fled copy of these articles of incorporation in the office of the Territorial Auditor of said Ter ritOry of Arizona, and the time of the termina- tion of the said corporation shall be Twenty five (25) years thereafter.
 ARTICLE SIX
 That the officers by whom the affairs of the said corporation are to be conducted shall be a Board of Directors of not less than two nor more than five Directors, who shall be stock holders. That the first Board of Directors shall be elected at the first meeting of the in- cOrpOrators of said company and the Directors elected at such meeting shall hold Ofice until the first annual meeting of the stockholders of said corporation. That thereafter the said Board of Directors shall be elected at each an- nual meeting of the stockholders of said cor poratiOn, which annual meeting shall be held on the second Tuesday of January of each year. The Board of Directors at it's first meeting after such election shall elect President and a Vice President who must be of their own mem bers. and a Treasurer and Secretary, and such other officers and representatives as may be provided for in the bylaws, and the bylaws may provide that the same person or persons may be elected to hold more than one ofice.
 ARTICLE SEVEN
 The highest amount of indebtedness or lia- bility to which this corporation may at one time be subject shall not exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, Cs5OO, ,OO0O0).
 ARTICLE EIGHT
 That the private rroperty of the stockholders of the said corporation is to be exempt from it's corporate debts of every kind.
 In Witness Whereof, we have hereuntO set our hands and seals this 4th day of Nov, A D. 1910
 CLARENCE CAMP. (seau
 CARL B. VAN DEMAN, tSeall STATE OF FLoRIDAI
 County of Marion.
 Personally appeared before me Frank Drake, a Notary Public in and for the County of Marion, State of Florida, Clarence Camp, one of the parties whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, ana acknOWledged that he signed the same for the purposes and con sideratiOn therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of of1ce this 4th day of November, A. D. 1910.
 (SEAL) FRANK DRAKE,
 Notary Public. My commission expires Oct. 22nd, 1914. TERRITORY OF ARIzoNA,t
 County of Mohave.
 Before me, J. E. Perry a clerk of the District Court Tn and for the County of Mohave, Terri tory of Arizona. on this day personally appear ed Carl B. Van Deman. known to be one of the persons whose name is subscribed to the fore going instrument. and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes and con- sideratiOn therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of office this 9th day of November, A. D. 1910.
 (SEAL) J. F. PERRY,
 Clerk of the District Court. First insertion Nov. 12-Dec. l7.