Mohave County miner., 1910-12-17
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF Ruth Gold Mines Company.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we. Clarence Camp and Carl B Van Deman, have this day associated ourselves togt ther for the purpose of becoming a body corporate under and by virtue of the laws of the TerrltOry Of Arizona, and for that purpose do hereby adopt the following 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 ofhces and fiscal agencies.
 ARTICLE THREE.
 The general nature of the business for which this corporation is formed is to acquire real estate, miues mining claims, personal and mixed property, coal and oil lands, any other mineral substance or deposit, milling refining, mining, or dealing m any and all kinds of mineral or its product, and to pros pect develop, irrigate, or cultivate or other. wise improve their properties and 10 dispose of any of it's holdings in any manner satisfactory to the Board of Directors; merchandising or tra1ic of any kind, or construction work in any of it's 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 lSl ,OOOOO0 Dol lars of ha value of One Dollar (Sl.OOl per share, and said stock shall be fully paid in at the date of it's issuance. and sad stock or any portion thereof may be paid for in money or m 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 pad for said stock shall be forever non-assesssble.
 ARTICLE FIVE
 The time of commencement of said corpora tic shall be the date of the filing of the certi- fled copy of these articles of incorporation in the ofice of the Territorial Auditor of said Ter r1tory 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 office until the hrst 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 its first meeting after such election shall elect President and a Vice President who must be of their own mem bers. and Treasurer aud Secretary. and such other officers and representatives as may be provided for in the bylaws, and the bylaws may provide that the same person 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 Dollars, Cs5OO. .OO0OO).
 ARTICLE EIGHT
 That the private Troperty 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. l9l0
 CLARENCE CAMP, [Sea1
 CARL B. VAN DEMAN, tSeall STATE OF FLoRIDAl
 County of Marion
 Personally appeared before me Frank Drake. l 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, and acknowledged that he signed the same for the purposes and con sideratiOn therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of ofice, this Ith day of November. A. D. 1910
 (SEAL) FRANK DRAKE,
 Notary Public. My commission expires Oct. 22nd, 1914. TERRITORY OF RATIONAL
 County of MOhave.
 Before me- J. E. Perry, a clerk of the District Court, Tn and for the County of Mohave, Terri Ory of Arizona. on this day personally appear d Carl B. Van Deman known to be one of the persons whose name is subscribed to the fore ,oing instrument. and acknowledged to me that le executed the same for the purposes and con alteration therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of ofhce this th day of November, A. D. 1910.
 lSEAL) J. E. PERRY,
 Clerk of the District Court First insertion Nov. l2-Dec. 17.