Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page A. O. U. W. Building Association Sheldon Ransom 7 2,500 03/21/1889 2118 461 Aberdeen Abstract Company Aberdeen Brown 4 20,000 01/10/1889 2118 266 Aberdeen Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Company (de-classification of st Aberdeen Brown 08/25/1887 2116 114 Aberdeen Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Company (name change from Or Ordway Brown 5 05/09/1888 2117 156 Aberdeen Building & Loan Association Aberdeen Brown 7 500,000 01/02/1886 2112 328 Aberdeen Club Aberdeen Brown 7 04/27/1889 2119 51 Aberdeen Construction Company Aberdeen Brown 3 250,000 05/12/1888 2117 173 Aberdeen Creamery Company Aberdeen Brown 3 10,000 03/05/1888 2116 525 Aberdeen Daily News Company Aberdeen Brown 3 12,000 08/08/1887 2116 81 Aberdeen Electric Light Co. Aberdeen Brown 3 10,0090 04/14/1886 2112 535 Aberdeen Electric Street Railway Company Aberdeen Brown 3 50,000 05/02/1888 2117 141 Aberdeen Farmer's Elevator Co. Aberdeen Brown 7 50,000 07/21/1885 2112 92 Aberdeen Faulkton and South Western Railway Company Faulkton Faulk 6 750,000 04/15/1887 2115 290 Aberdeen First Mortgage Security Company Aberdeen Brown 7 100,000 12/21/1886 2114 533 Aberdeen First Mortgage Security Company (acceptance of amendment) Aberdeen Brown 7 11/13/1888 2118 107 Aberdeen Free Library Association Aberdeen Brown 7 03/13/1884 2110 69 Aberdeen Gaslight Company Aberdeen Brown 3 50,000 01/18/1887 2114 573 Aberdeen Highlands Improvement Company Aberdeen Brown 3 100,000 08/08/1888 2117 481 Aberdeen Implement Company Aberdeen Brown 5 50,000 01/25/1889 2118 319 Aberdeen Improvement Company Aberdeen Brown 3-5 12,000 10/04/1888 2118 43 Aberdeen LaMoure & Pierre Railway Aberdeen Brown 8 1,000,000 12/28/1885 2112 319 Aberdeen Land and Improvement Co. Aberdeen Brown 3 30,000 01/30/1883 2108 64 Aberdeen Light and Fuel Company Aberdeen Brown 5 100,000 08/09/1889 2119 360 Aberdeen Light and Power Company Aberdeen Brown 3 100,000 02/14/1889 2118 360 Aberdeen Methodist Episcopal Church Aberdeen Brown 6 02/29/1884 2110 25 Aberdeen Mill Company Aberdeen Brown 5 08/31/1886 2114 300 Aberdeen Park Improvement Company Aberdeen Brown 7 50,000 04/25/1887 2115 297 Aberdeen Plow Company Aberdeen Brown 7 10,000 09/20/1886 2114 354 Aberdeen Railway Company Aberdeen Brown 7 250,000 06/04/1889 2119 141 Aberdeen Savings Bank Aberdeen Brown 5 100,000 04/24/1889 2119 37 Aberdeen Steam Brick Works Aberdeen Brown 3 10,000 07/05/1887 2115 569 Aberdeen Street Railway Company Aberdeen Brown 3 50,000 03/22/1887 2115 185 Aberdeen Telephone Company Aberdeen Brown 5 10,000 12/01/1886 2114 464 Aberdeen Transfer and Storage Company Aberdeen Brown 3 15,000 10/06/1888 2118 45

Page 1 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Aberdeen, Fergus Falls, and Pierre Railroad Company Aberdeen Brown 7 2,500,000 04/19/1886 2113 29 Aberdeen, Sioux Falls and Montana Railway Company Aberdeen Brown 13 1,500,000 03/03/1888 2116 520 Adelphi Extension Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 288 Adelphi Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/20/1886 2113 39 Advance Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 373 Advance Publishing Company Milbank Grant 7 3,000 08/31/1888 2118 8 Advent Christian Church of Frankfort Frankfort Spink 3 12/11/1888 2118 168 Ajax Mining Milling & Smelting Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/31/1881 2105 360 Alabama Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 244 Alban Methodist Episcopal Church Alban Grant 5 02/02/1884 2109 459 Albe Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 215 Albert Barnes Memorial Church of Glencoe Dakota Glencoe (twp) Burleigh 5 10/04/1888 2118 39 Albion Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/11/1887 2115 465 Alexander Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 08/02/1886 2114 228 Alexandria Building & Loan Association Alexandria Hanson 10 25,000 08/01/1885 2112 134 Alexandria Cemetery Association Alexandria Hanson 4 1,000 09/21/1882 2107 228 Alice Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 7 250,000 06/29/1887 2115 552 All Souls' Church of Sioux Falls, Dakota Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 05/03/1887 2115 321 Alliance Aid Association Huron Beadle 9 12/15/1888 2118 185 Alliance Company of Wentworth Wentworth Lake 9 10,000 03/03/1888 2116 516 Alliance Hail Association Twin Brooks Grant 9 02/10/1887 2115 50 Alliance Warehouse Company Madison Lake 7 10,000 10/18/1887 2116 254 Alliance Warehouse Company of Valley City, Dakota Valley City Barnes 5 10,000 06/21/1888 2117 283 Alpena Creamery Co. Alpena Jerauld 5 2,000 03/11/1886 2112 429 Alpena Warehouse and Elevator Alpena Jerauld 7 5,000 06/12/1888 2117 256 Alpha Mining Company Lisbon Ransom 4 500,000 11/06/1883 2109 300 Alta Italia Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 352 Amazon Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/22/1886 2113 426 Amdahl Church of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Ellendale Dickey 3 05/04/1886 2113 122 American Bank and Trust Company Woonsocket Sanborn 5 500,000 04/20/1886 2113 32 American Flag Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 324 American Loan and Trust Company Canton Lincoln 3-7 100,000 07/31/1886 2114 224 American Mortgage and Investment Co.; Madison Lake 3 100,000 07/09/1885 2112 56 American Mortgage and Investment Company Madison Lake 5 500,000 05/06/1887 2115 327

Page 2 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page American Mortgage Company Yankton Yankton 3 100,000 10/01/1887 2116 210 American Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 3,000,000 05/29/1886 2113 528 American Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/08/1887 2115 445 Amethyst Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 562 Amherst Hall Association Amherst McPherson 3 1,200 12/19/1888 2118 217 Anchor Mining Company Spearfish City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/05/1886 2114 3 Ancient Order of United Workman Building Association Doland Spink 3 5,000 04/09/1888 2117 75 Ancient Order of United Workmen Building Association of Doland (reduction in Doland Spink 3 2,500 09/10/1888 2118 12 Anglo Dakota Loan and Trust Company Highmore Hyde 5 100,000 05/31/1887 2115 424 Anna Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 203 Antelope Valley Farming Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 20,000 12/21/1885 2112 301 Appleton Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/07/1886 2114 7 Aqua Pura Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 453 Argus Company Fargo Cass 3 100,000 05/08/1881 2105 305 Argus Company 08/18/1881 2105 316 Argus Leader Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 25,000 04/07/1887 2115 229 Argus Printing Co. of Fargo Fargo Cass 5 60,000 05/28/1885 2111 555 Arjenta Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 296 Arlington Building and Loan Association Arlington Kingsbury 9 05/27/1887 2115 396 Arlington Cornet Band Arlington Kingsbury 5 1,0009 04/20/1885 2111 420 Arlington Creamery Association Arlington Kingsbury 7 2,500 03/22/1887 2115 183 Arlington Farmers Shipping Association Arlington Kingsbury 7 25,000 05/27/1887 2115 399 Armory Hall Association St. John Rolette 7 500 07/06/1888 2117 352 Armour Alliance Warehouse Company Armour Douglas 11 10,000 07/11/1888 2117 298 Armour Building and Improvement Association Armour Douglas 3-7 04/04/1887 2115 224 Armour Cemetery Corporation Armour Douglas 5 1,000 01/24/1889 2118 312 Armour Lodge No. 25 Knights of Pythias Armour Douglas 3 11/17/1887 2116 306 Ashton Building & Loan Association Ashton Spink 9 500,000 05/21/1885 2111 539 Ashton Building Company Ashton Spink 3 4,500 06/09/1883 2109 14 Ashton Business Men's Association Ashton Spink 7 2,000 05/04/1882 2106 316 Ashton Elevator Company Ashton Spink 3 6,000 06/07/1889 2119 151 Ashton Farmer's Elevator Company Ashton Spink 9 10,000 06/18/1885 2112 17 Ashton Gas and Fuel Company Ashton Spink 7 100,000 03/12/1888 2116 551 Ashton Steam Roller Mill Company Ashton Spink 3 50,000 11/15/1887 2116 298

Page 3 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Assumption Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 05/22/1886 2113 446 Atlas Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 15,000 10/06/1884 2111 16 Atlas Mining Company Carbonate Lawrence 5 1,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 309 Aurora Cheese and Butter Company Aurora Brookings 11 2,500 05/16/1887 2115 350 Aurora County Agricultural Fair Association Plankinton Aurora 11 1,500 06/04/1887 2115 440 Aurora County Agricultural Society Plankinton Aurora 5 5,000 07/03/1883 2109 64 Aurora Farming Company Fargo Cass 10/11/1882 2107 258 Aurora Farming Company Fargo Cass 7 50,000 09/13/1882 2107 206 Aurora Investment Company Aurora Brookings 9 5,000 05/26/1887 2115 389 Aurora Shire Horse Company Aurora Brookings 5 5,000 05/23/1888 2117 198 Austin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 517 Axiom Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 1,250,000 10/26/1888 2118 85 Back Hills Railroad Company Lead City Lawrence 07/17/1882 2107 93 Badger Cemetery Badger (twp) Kingsbury 3 04/06/1888 2117 67 Badus Farmers Alliance Company Ramona Lake 5 3,000 08/09/1888 2117 486 Bailey Lake Cheese Company Woodland (twp Clark 7 800,000 04/18/1889 2118 564 Bailey Loan Company Rapid City Pennington 5 250,000 03/02/1889 2118 411 Bailey Loan Company (amendment) Rapid City Pennington 5 250,000 03/25/1889 2118 469 Bald Mountain Alert Mining Company Terraville Lawrence 5 1,000,000 12/12/1888 2118 170 Bald Mountain Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 11/23/1888 2118 126 Bald Mountain Silver and Gold Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 02/15/1888 2116 480 Bank of Ardoch Ardoch Walsh 3 10,000 06/14/1886 2114 69 Bank of Billinghurst Brothers Ashton Spink 3 100,000 03/22/1888 2117 11 Bank of Bristol Bristol Day 5 20,000 10/19/1886 2114 400 Bank of Brookings Brookings Brookings 9 150,000 04/02/1888 2117 53 Bank of Brookings Brookings Brookings 7 100,000 12/22/1883 2109 360 Bank of Canton Canton Lincoln 3 50,000 03/31/1887 2115 210 Bank of Centerville Centerville Turner 5 20,000 08/31/1887 2116 137 Bank of Claremont Claremont Brown 3 25,000 12/30/1886 2114 542 Bank of Clear Lake Clear Lake Deuel 4 25,000 04/19/1888 2117 109 Bank of Commerce Pierre Hughes 7 100,000 04/29/1889 2119 57 Bank of Devils Lake Devils Lake Ramsey 3 25,000 06/12/1883 2109 25 Bank of Doland Doland Spink 5 33,000 03/19/1886 2112 448 Bank of Edgeley Edgeley Edmunds 3+ 25,000 03/25/1887 2115 191

Page 4 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Bank of Elkton Elkton Brookings 5 25,000 05/12/1884 2110 216 Bank of Flandreau Flandreau Moody 7 50,000 05/19/1883 2108 303 Bank of Flandreau (Decrease in Capitol Stock) Flandreau Moody 20,000 12/18/1885 2112 298 Bank of Forest City Forest City Potter 5 50,000 04/21/1887 2115 275 Bank of Frederick Frederick Brown 5 25,000 12/01/1886 2114 462 Bank of Galena Galena Lawrence 5 10,000 11/08/1886 2114 420 Bank of Gilby Gilby Walsh 3 50,000 12/22/1887 2116 382 Bank of Grafton Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 30,000 10/31/1881 2106 35 Bank of Grafton Grafton Walsh 12/26/1881 2106 92 Bank of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 50,000 10/05/1882 2107 256 Bank of Groton Groton Brown 3 50,000 11/01/1883 2109 288 Bank of Hamilton Hamilton Pembina 3 10,000 01/07/1886 2112 341 Bank of Hecla Hecla Brown 3 35,000 12/07/1888 2118 152 Bank of Hermosa Hermosa Custer 7 35,000 07/06/1886 2114 158 Bank of Ipswich Ipswich Edmunds 3 25,000 05/26/1887 2115 384 Bank Of Iroquois Iroquois Kingsbury 3 25,000 01/01/1886 2112 327 Bank of Iroquois (Acceptance of Provisions) Iroquois Kingsbury 01/21/1888 2116 400 Bank of Langdon Langdon Cavalier 4 12,000 02/07/1888 2116 448 Bank of Leeds Leeds Cass 5 25,000 10/17/1889 2119 525 Bank of Minnewaukan Minnewaukan Benson 3 25,000 03/15/1884 2110 76 Bank of Minot Minot Ward 5 100,000 09/09/1887 2116 158 Bank of Minto Minto Walsh 4 50,000 04/24/1885 2111 443 Bank of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 4 25,000 07/14/1882 2107 81 Bank of Neche Neche Pembina 6 12,000 02/01/1887 2115 32 Bank of Oakes Oakes Dickey 5 35,000 11/08/1886 2114 424 Bank Of Plankinton Plankinton Aurora 5 50,000 11/27/1885 2112 253 Bank of Rugby Rugby Ward 5 100,000 01/04/1889 2118 245 Bank of Saint Thomas St. Thomas Pembina 3 25,000 10/22/1887 2116 267 Bank of South Dakota Madison Lake 5 100,000 07/25/1889 2119 306 Bank of Spearfish Spearfish Lawrence 9 50,000 04/27/1887 2115 299 Bank of St. John St. John Cass 5 50,000 10/17/1889 2119 533 Bank of Sturgis Sturgis Lawrence 7 50,000 05/12/1887 2115 338 Bank of Sykeston Sykeston Cass 5 25,000 10/31/1889 2119 559 Bank of Towner Towner LaMoure 5 100,000 01/04/1889 2118 178

Page 5 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Bank of Verdon Verdon Brown 3 11/26/1888 2118 131 Bank of Volga Volga Brookings 7 50,000 04/14/1886 2112 533 Bank of Volga (increase of capital stock) Volga Brookings 7 100,000 02/18/1889 2118 370 Bank of Warner Warner Brown 3 25,000 01/24/1889 2118 315 Bank of Webster Webster Day 5 30,000 10/16/1886 2114 390 Bank of Willow City Willow City Bottineau 3-5 50,000 09/28/1889 2119 473 Bankers and Merchants Accident Association of Dakota Yankton Yankton 10 06/01/1888 2117 211 Bankers Mutual Relief Association of the North West Aberdeen Brown 5 09/06/1887 2116 152 Banner Hook and Ladder Co. Bismarck Burleigh 5 04/06/1886 2112 507 Banner Lodge No. 19 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 02/02/1886 2112 369 Baptist Church of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 05/20/1884 2110 246 Baptist Church of Blunt Blunt Hughes 3 05/21/1884 2110 249 Baptist Church of Clear Lake Clear Lake Deuel 5 04/10/1885 2111 387 Baptist Church of Ellendale Ellendale Dickey 3 04/10/1885 2111 376 Baptist Church of Lamoure Lamoure Lamoure 3 08/25/1885 2112 169 Baptist Church of New Rockford New Rockford Eddy 3 09/25/1885 2112 193 Baptist Church of St. Thomas St. Thomas Pembina 3 06/09/1883 2109 12 Baptist Church of Vilas Vilas Miner 3 01/16/1885 2111 160 Barlow Methodist Episcopal Church Barlow Foster 7 08/15/1888 2117 504 Barnes County Agricultural & Mechanical Association Valley City Barnes 9 10,000 07/25/1882 2107 117 Barnes Gold Mining & Milling Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,000,000 10/12/1882 2107 259 Bartlett Land Improvement Co. Bartlett Ramsey 3 20,000 01/15/1883 2108 54 Bathgate Baptist Church Bathgate Hamilton 3 10/14/1882 2107 269 Battle Creek Flume and Mining Company Hayward City Custer 3 20,000 07/23/1878 2104 1 Battle Creek Irrigating Ditch Co. Battle River Custer 5 1,500 05/16/1881 2105 171 Battle Mountain Marble and Improvement Company Hot Springs Fall River 5 1,000,000 06/29/1887 2115 541 Battle River Railroad Co. Battle River Custer 5 500,000 03/06/1886 2112 411 Beach Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church Howard Miner 4 06/28/1884 2110 327 Beadle County Abstract Company Huron Beadle 5 20,000 01/24/1889 2118 317 Beadle County Agricultural Association Huron Beadle 9 10,000 08/14/1883 2109 132 Beadle County Bank Huron Beadle 7 20,000 01/29/1883 2108 62 Bear Butte & Deadwood Railway Co. Deadwood Lawrence 13 1,300,000 03/05/1880 2104 220 Bear Butte & Elk Creek Water Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 08/21/1879 2104 125 Bear Butte Coal Mining Company Sturgis Lawrence 3 500,000 04/02/1888 2117 46

Page 6 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Bear Butte Lodge No. 46 I.O.O.F. Sturgis Lawrence 3 03/16/1885 2111 317 Bear Butte Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 552 Bear Butte Prospecting & Coal Mining Co. Sturgis City Lawrence 5 100,000 10/31/1879 2104 161 Beas & Beavers Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 01/27/1882 2106 147 Beaver Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 1,000,000 05/26/1886 2113 498 Beaver Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,500,000 02/14/1888 2116 478 Beidler & Robinson Lumber Co. Mayville Traill 3 50,000 03/24/1885 2111 349 Beidler and Robinson Lumber Company (increase of stock) 100,000 02/06/1889 2118 553 Belcher Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/20/1886 2113 36 Belfield & Black Hills Railroad Company Chicago Cook 5 15,000,000 04/10/1883 2108 225 Bella Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 356 Belle Fourche Canal and Improvement Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/13/1886 2113 228 Belle Fourche Construction Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 150,000 05/13/1886 2113 209 Belle Fourche Deadwood & Rockford Rail road Deadwood Lawrence 9 1,000,000 01/12/1880 2104 186 Belle Fourche Land & Water Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 5,000 04/08/1886 2112 515 Belt Consolidated Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 03/08/1886 2112 424 Ben Harrison Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 04/19/1889 2118 566 Benedictine Convent of the Sacred Heart Yankton Yankton 3 02/01/1889 2118 348 Bergen Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 3 08/17/1887 2116 102 Bergens Norsk Evangelical Lutheran Church Society Twp. 92 Clay 5 05/11/1885 2111 504 Bergens Norsk Evangelical Lutherske Weirghed Norway Clay 5 01/13/1887 2114 560 Berlin German Baptist Church of McIntosh County McIntosh 3-7 04/19/1889 2119 26 Bethania Congregation (Lutheran) Buffalo (twp.) Minnehaha 3 04/17/1886 2113 14 Bethania Evangelisk Luthersk Meuighed Hartland (twp) Kingsbury 6 03/31/1887 2115 217 Bethania Meuigheds Cemetery Corporation Hartland (twp) Kingsbury 5 03/31/1887 2115 215 Bethany Norwegian Dane Lutheran Church of Abercrombie Abercrombie Richland 3 11/01/1889 2119 572 Bethel Church Society of the Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Association Irving Spink 3 11/14/1888 2118 108 Bethel Presbyterian Church Pennington 3-11 09/30/1889 2119 476 Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church of Deuel County Dakota Scandinavia (tw Deuel Not Listed 11/26/1888 2118 136 Bethlehem Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Twp. 96 Yankton 3 11/21/1884 2111 76 Beulah Presbyterian Church of 113.66 Hand County Gilbert (twp) Hand Not Listed 11/06/1886 2114 414 Big Chief Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 345 Big Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/03/1886 2113 112 Big Owl Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/29/1886 2113 524

Page 7 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Big Sioux Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 455 Big Spring Marble Company Buffalo Gap Custer 5 800,000 12/05/1888 2118 150 Big Spring Scandinavian Baptist Church Sioux Valley Union 3 09/01/1879 2104 135 Big Stone City Mining Company Big Stone City Grant 6 250,000 07/03/1889 2119 240 Big Stone Lake Assembly Association Big Stone City Grant 7 06/06/1889 2119 176 Big Stone Lake Transportation Company Big Stone City Grant 5 300,000 04/30/1883 2108 277 Big Stone Methodist Episcopal Church Big Stone City Grant 3 10/06/1880 2104 389 Billings Bull Mountain & Northern Railroad Co. Bismarck Burleigh 7 550,000 01/12/1886 2112 344 Bi-Metallic Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 04/26/1886 2113 66 Bismarck and Missouri River Railroad Company Forest City Potter 5 10,000,000 03/14/1888 2116 558 Bismarck and Southeastern Railway Co. Bismarck Burleigh 5 10,000,000 01/16/1883 2108 56 Bismarck Artesian Well & Water Company Bismarck Burleigh 03/13/1883 2108 170 Bismarck Artesian Well & Water Works Co. Bismarck Burleigh 11 10,000 03/13/1882 2106 229 Bismarck Artesian Well & Water Works Co. (Increase in Capital) Bismarck Burleigh 75,000 09/12/1883 2109 184 Bismarck Athenaeum Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 20,000 02/27/1884 2110 14 Bismarck Building Association Bismarck Burleigh 5 20,000 01/09/1882 2106 115 Bismarck Choral Union Bismarck Burleigh 5 05/16/1884 2110 244 Bismarck Creamery Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 25,000 02/25/1888 2116 505 Bismarck Electric Light and Power Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 50,000 06/15/1887 2115 498 Bismarck Elevator Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 10,000 08/02/1882 2107 130 Bismarck Fire Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 03/20/1880 2104 241 Bismarck Grove No.25 of the United Ancient Order of Druids Bismarck Burleigh 3 02/12/1885 2111 240 Bismarck Heating & Lighting Co. Bismarck Burleigh 5 20,000 01/09/1883 2108 42 Bismarck Journal Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 6,000 01/22/1885 2111 178 Bismarck Leader Publishing Co. Bismarck Burleigh 4 5,000 05/05/1884 2110 199 Bismarck Library Association Bismarck Burleigh 5 02/28/1882 2106 199 Bismarck Loan & Trust Company Bismarck Burleigh 7 100,000 11/10/1883 2109 304 Bismarck Marine and Ways and Dock Company Bismarck Burleigh 7 25,000 03/22/1879 2104 60 Bismarck Mouse River Turtle Mountain & Manitoba Railroad Co. Bismarck Burleigh 10 2,000,000 03/04/1882 2106 214 Bismarck Northern Railway Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 10,000,000 05/03/1884 2110 194 Bismarck Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 37 Bismarck Reservoirs & Water Works Co. Bismarck Burleigh 9 15,000 01/27/1880 2104 193 Bismarck Sioux Falls & St. Louis Rail Road Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 500,000 11/19/1881 2106 58 Bismarck Telephone Exchange Bismarck Burleigh 6 25,000 10/13/1882 2107 262

Page 8 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Bismarck Tribune Company Bismarck Burleigh 5-7 20,000 09/15/1886 2114 344 Bismarck Water Company Bismarck Burleigh 7 100,000 05/27/1886 2113 489 Bismarck, Land, Improvement, Mining and Manufacturing Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 250,000 11/23/1887 2116 319 Black Diamond Oil Company Terraville Lawrence 7 1,500,000 05/25/1886 2113 475 Black Hawk Medicine Co. Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 04/03/1886 2112 502 Black Hills and Wyoming Railroad Company (increase in stock) Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,700,000 11/15/1886 2114 438 Black Hills Carbonate Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 08/22/1881 2105 321 Black Hills Central Railroad Company Rapid City Pennington 5 1,600,000 06/17/1889 2119 198 Black Hills Coal Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/25/1887 2115 523 Black Hills College Hot Springs Fall River 11 12/01/1887 2116 332 Black Hills Creamery Company Minnesela Butte 5 6,000 03/02/1889 2118 408 Black Hills Detective Association Rapid City Pennington Not Listed 07/20/1887 2116 10 Black Hills Ditch Company Rapid City Pennington 3 25,000 08/06/1878 2104 6 Black Hills Electric Light Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 50,000 01/09/1884 2109 403 Black Hills Fair Association Deadwood Lawrence 5 10,000 05/26/1885 2111 546 Black Hills Flume and Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 11/01/1887 2116 278 Black Hills Insurance Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 02/27/1883 2108 128 Black Hills Lime Company Rapid City Pennington 5 50,000 05/19/1886 2113 361 Black Hills Livestock Association Rapid City Pennington 5 12/10/1880 2105 32 Black Hills Loan and Trust Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 50,000 02/29/1888 2116 512 Black Hills Lumber Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 10,000 03/13/1883 2108 164 Black Hills Mining and Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 5 1,500,000 07/17/1886 2114 176 Black Hills Northern Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 5,000,000 01/31/1884 2109 450 Black Hills Northern Railway Co. Bismarck Burleigh 5 2,000,000 03/10/1883 2108 157 Black Hills Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 01/09/1884 2109 401 Black Hills Oil Company (Increase of Stock) Deadwood Lawrence 06/09/1886 2114 25 Black Hills Ore Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 04/05/1886 2112 503 Black Hills Plaster Company Sturgis Lawrence 3 20,000 10/18/1888 2118 65 Black Hills Prospecting & Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 5,000,000 08/08/1883 2109 120 Black Hills Publishing Company Rapid City Pennington 3 3,000 09/19/1889 2119 439 Black Hills Railroad Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 02/11/1881 2105 94 Black Hills Railroad Company Lead City Lawrence 5 500,000 06/12/1881 2105 229 Black Hills Salt Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/28/1886 2114 298 Black Hills Sportsman's Club Deadwood Lawrence 3 08/20/1884 2110 462

Page 9 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Black Hills Tin Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 3 2,000,000 12/19/1888 2118 221 Black Hills Townsite Company Butte Butte 7 60,000 10/31/1883 2109 278 Black Hills Variegated Rock Quarry and Milling Company Smithwick Fall River 3 800,000 08/19/1887 2116 108 Black Moon Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 07/19/1886 2114 183 Blackstone Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 06/14/1886 2114 72 Blom Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Oslo (twp) Brookings 3 12/07/1888 2118 153 Bloom Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Lake Sinai Brookings 3 05/11/1889 2118 514 Blue Bird Gold and Silver Mining Company Ruby Basin Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/08/1886 2113 185 Blue Ribbon Club of Columbia Columbia Brown 3 07/29/1886 2114 217 Bluff Center Methodist-Episcopal Church Bethel (twp.) Clay 04/17/1886 2113 17 Blunt Lodge No. 64 Blunt Hughes 3 06/10/1884 2110 291 Blunt Natural Gas and Fuel Company Blunt Hughes 11 50,000 05/31/1887 2115 418 Board of Trade of the City of Salem Salem McCook 3-9 1,000 07/06/1889 2119 332 Board of Trade of the City of Watertown Watertown Codington 13 02/08/1887 2115 44 Board of Trade town of Lamoure Lamoure Lamoure 5 03/04/1884 2110 26 Board of Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 5 06/21/1879 2104 107 Board of Trustees of the Miller Methodist Episcopal Church Miller Hand Not Listed 03/21/1888 2117 5 Board of Trustees of the Miller Methodist Episcopal Church Miller Hand 10/08/1884 2111 19 Bohemia Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 43 Bon Homme Cemetery Association (Election) Bon Homme Bon Homme Not Listed 07/05/1887 2115 562 Bon Homme County Agricultural Association Tyndall Bon Homme 5 5,000 08/23/1883 2109 144 Bon Homme County Bank Scotland Bon Homme 7 50,000 05/28/1885 2111 551 Bonanza King Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/17/1886 2114 83 Bonanza Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,000,000 12/12/1881 2106 79 Boston & Little Railway Co. Lawrence 5 500,000 09/19/1882 2107 226 Boston & Little Rapid Milling & Water Power Co. Rochford Pennington 5 2,000,000 08/03/1883 2109 112 Bottineau County Agricultural Association Bottineau Bottineau 9 08/07/1888 2117 479 Bowesmont Methodist Episcopal Church of Bowesmont Bowesmont Pembina Per Discipli 08/29/1889 2119 416 Box Elder Land & Livestock Company Rapid City Pennington 6 100,000 07/29/1885 2112 113 Box Elder Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,500,000 05/25/1886 2113 470 Box Elder Water Company Pinkerton Pennington 3 10,000 01/11/1883 2108 50 Bradford Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 05/19/1886 2113 377 Bradley Cheese Company Bradley Clark 10 1,500 06/05/1888 2117 236 Bradley Methodist Episcopal Church Bradley Clark Per Discipli 09/09/1889 2119 423

Page 10 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Brett Baker Company Henry Codington 5 50,000 06/24/1889 2119 217 Bristol Cemetery Association Bristol Day 5 03/08/1888 2116 529 Britton Land & Trust Company Britton Day 5 12,000 04/10/1885 2111 365 Brookings County Agricultural Fair & Driving Park Association Volga Brookings 9 5,000 07/19/1880 2104 328 Brookings County Agricultural Society & Mechanic Institute Brookings Brookings 24 08/07/1880 2104 349 Brookings County Building & Loan Association Brookings Brookings 9 100,000 04/13/1885 2111 393 Brookings County Press Brookings Brookings 5 5,000 05/10/1879 2104 86 Brookings Creamery Company Brookings Brookings 5 5,000 05/28/1887 2115 404 Brookings Electric Light company Brookings Brookings 5 2,500 07/26/1888 2117 442 Brookings Opera Hall Company Brookings Brookings 5 2,500 04/07/1884 2110 128 Brookings Union Tow Mill co. Brookings Brookings 3 3,000 11/25/1884 2111 81 Brookline Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/15/1887 2115 162 Brooklyn Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/17/1886 2114 85 Brown Brothers and Preston Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 100,000 01/04/1883 2108 37 Brown County Agricultural & Industrial Society Aberdeen Brown 11 07/24/1882 2107 111 Brown County Agricultural Association Aberdeen Brown 7 06/14/1884 2110 304 Brown County Agricultural Society Columbia Brown 11 12/16/1882 2108 7 Brown County Bank Aberdeen Brown 3 20,000 11/23/1881 2106 61 Brown County Bank Aberdeen Brown 3 20,000 07/20/1887 2116 13 Brown County Bank of Aberdeen (Retiring of Stock, Cancellation of Business) Aberdeen Brown 07/08/1887 2116 13 Brown County Banking Company Groton Brown 5 50,000 09/12/1889 2119 429 Brown Irrigating Ditch Company Rapid City Pennington 4 10,000 04/23/1881 2105 145 Bruflats Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Portland Traill 6 04/13/1888 2117 93 Brule County Agricultural Society Kimball Brule 5 06/30/1882 2107 67 Brule County Bank Chamberlain Brule 5 50,000 05/26/1881 2105 214 Brule County Fair Association Kimball Brule 5 5,000 08/06/1884 2110 432 Brule County Farmers Manufacturing and Trading Association Brule and Gra 5 10,000 01/15/1889 2118 261 Brule County Well Drilling Company Kimball Brule 3 800 08/30/1882 2107 195 Brule Creek Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brule Creek Brule Creek Union 3 03/03/1883 2108 140 Brule Lodge No. 44 A. F. and A. M. Kimball Brule 3 04/02/1888 2117 50 Buckeye Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 04/27/1886 2113 73 Buckeye Livestock Company Rapid City Pennington 3 99,000 02/02/1885 2111 203 Buckeye Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 01/27/1882 2106 149 Buckeye Placer Mining Company Spearfish City Lawrence 7 125,000 06/14/1886 2114 70

Page 11 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Buffalo Gap Brown Stone Company Buffalo Gap Custer 5 100,000 05/28/1887 2115 407 Buffalo Gap Driving Park Association Buffalo Gap Custer 7 25,000 07/13/1889 2119 277 Buffalo Gap Lumber Co. Buffalo Gap Custer 3 15,000 03/29/1886 2112 480 Buffalo Gap Mining Milling and Manufacturing Buffalo Gap Custer 4 1,250,000 09/04/1886 2114 315 Buffalo Gap Stone Company Buffalo Gap Custer 4 600,000 01/29/1889 2118 327 Building and Loan Association of Dakota Aberdeen Brown 7 500,000 10/18/1888 2118 70 Building and Loan Association of Dakota Aberdeen Brown 7 25,000,000 09/14/1889 2119 436 Building and Loan Association of Dakota (increase of stock Aberdeen Brown 7 5,000,000 05/01/1889 2119 61 Building Association of Watertown (amendment to provisions) Watertown Codington 2119 90 Bullion Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 341 Bunker Hill Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 500,000 06/05/1888 2117 230 Burdette Union Religious and Literary Association Burdette Hand 3 06/04/1887 2115 438 Burleigh County Bar Association Bismarck Burleigh 7 500 01/30/1884 2109 436 Burleigh County Building & Loan Association Bismarck Burleigh 9 500,000 02/01/1884 2110 112 Burleigh County Building & Loan Association Bismarck Burleigh ? ?? 12/30/1885 2112 321 Burleigh County Building and Loan Association of Burleigh Co. (acceptance of pr Burleigh 04/16/1887 2115 251 Business Mens Association of St. Lawrence St. Lawrence Hand 5 25,000 12/27/1887 2116 380 Butte County Irrigating Ditch Company Minnesela Butte 3 10,000 03/06/1884 2110 31 Butte Irrigating Ditch Company Butte P. O. Butte 3 10,000 05/25/1889 2119 113 C.G. Church Company Watertown Codington 3 10,000 08/02/1886 2114 227 California Coal Company Central City Crook, Wyom 7 1,250,000 04/30/1886 2113 81 California Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 3,000,000 05/13/1886 2113 248 Calloa Gold and Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 4 1,250,000 05/08/1886 2113 181 Calumet Gold & Silver Mining Co. Sturgis Lawrence 5 2,500,000 04/12/1886 2112 536 Campbell County Methodist Episcopal Church La Grace Campbell 3 08/28/1885 2112 273 Canadian Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/25/1886 2114 120 Canby Post No. 12 Department of Dakota Grand Army of the Republic Miller Hand 5 06/27/1887 2115 530 Candela Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 221 Canistota Cemetery Association Canistota McCook 5 03/02/1889 2118 409 Canning Methodist Episcopal Church Canning Hughes 3 01/13/1885 2111 155 Canova Farmers Elevator Co. Canova Miner 9 3,000 03/15/1886 2112 441 Canton Advocate Canton Lincoln 5 4,000 02/07/1888 2116 446 Canton Building & Loan association Canton Lincoln 7 500,000 06/02/1883 2108 342 Canton Building and Loan Association Canton Lincoln 6 100,000 04/12/1887 2115 247

Page 12 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Capital Building Company Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 10/21/1889 2119 543 Capital City Land Company (increase in stock) 3,000,000 06/03/1889 2119 138 Capital City Mining Company Huron Beadle 5 500,000 12/19/1887 2116 370 Capital Investment Company Woonsocket Sanborn 7 250,000 03/21/1889 2118 465 Capital Investment Company Woonsocket Sanborn 7 50,000 01/03/1889 2118 192 Capital Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 442 Capitol City Building and Loan Association of Huron Dakota Huron Beadle 5 250,000 04/09/1887 2115 240 Capitol City Land Company Watertown Codington 5 2,000,000 05/17/1889 2119 102 Capitol Coal Mining Company Yankton Yankton 11 25,000 09/22/1884 2110 503 Capitol Park Association Watertown Codington 5 100,000 06/04/1889 2119 147 Carbon Pressed Brick & Lime Company Carbon Morton 3 30,000 01/30/1883 2108 66 Carbonate Camp Miners Union Carbonate Lawrence 3 11/10/1887 2116 289 Carbonate Flume Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 05/21/1885 2111 532 Carbonate Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,500,000 05/08/1886 2113 191 Carbonate Mammoth Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 02/04/1885 2111 214 Carbonate Oil Company Carbonate Lawrence 7 2,500,000 06/10/1886 2114 27 Carl Cemetery Association Carl (twp) McPherson 7 06/20/1889 2119 207 Caroline Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 12/04/1888 2118 146 Carrington Milling and Elevator Company Carrington Foster 5 10,000 07/20/1888 2117 438 Carter Brothers Company Canton Lincoln 3 10,000 05/04/1888 2117 145 Carthage Printing Company Carthage Miner 3 1,500 02/21/1888 2116 493 Carthage Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 03/10/1886 2112 426 Carthage Warehouse Company Carthage Miner 7 5,000 04/10/1888 2117 77 Cascade Milling Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 50,000 05/19/1886 2113 403 Cascade Milling Company (increase of stock) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 75,000 05/16/1887 2115 352 Cass and Barnes Counties Agricultural Society Tower City Cass 9 10,000 12/31/1886 2114 545 Cass County Bank Casselton Cass 5 50,000 04/07/1887 2115 238 Cass County Stock and Trotting Association Casselton Cass 5 5,000 07/18/1887 2116 7 Casselton Branch Rail Road Company 08/17/1881 2105 308 Casselton Branch Railroad Co. 7 600,000 08/26/1880 2104 362 Casselton Masonic Temple Company Casselton Cass 8 8,000 05/27/1887 2115 391 Casselton University Casselton Cass 11 09/18/1882 2107 221 Castalia Steam Mill Company Castalia Charles Mix 7 4,000 06/02/1886 2113 574 Castle Chief Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 03/22/1887 2115 187

Page 13 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Castle Creek Hydraulic Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 100,000 05/22/1879 2104 93 Cavalier County Agricultural Society Langdon Cavalier 11 50,000 08/22/1888 2117 545 Cavalier County Bank Langdon Cavalier 3 25,000 12/06/1887 2116 349 Cavalier County Democrat Publishing Company Langdon Cavalier 5 2,300 08/05/1887 2116 66 Cavour Methodist Episcopal Church Cavour Beadle 3 07/06/1885 2112 45 Cedar Rapids Gold Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 9 `3,000,000 05/15/1884 2110 224 Cemetery Association Deuel County Gary Deuel 5 08/11/1882 2107 173 Cemetery Association of Altoona Beadle County Altoona Beadle 5 05/08/1885 2111 492 Cemetery Association of Diana Diana Sanborn 8 07/29/1886 2114 209 Centennial Coal Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 25,000 12/26/1878 2104 37 Centennial Wagon Road Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 10,000 02/24/1879 2104 57 Centerville Coal and Mining Company Centerville Turner 10 500,000 04/12/1889 2118 533 Central City Bank Central City Lawrence 9 50,000 04/20/1887 2115 271 Central City Deadwood & Eastern Rail Road Lawrence 5 500,000 03/09/1880 2104 230 Central City Deadwood & Eastern Railroad Extension of Road Deadwood Lawrence 12/04/1880 2105 17 Central City Deadwood Eastern Railroad Cert. of Increase of Cap. Stock Cert. Deadwood Lawrence 12/04/1880 2105 19 Central City Mines Union Central City Lawrence 3 12/03/1882 2107 322 Central City Oil Company Central City Crook, Wyom 7 1,250,000 05/11/1886 2113 193 Central Congregational Church Sanborn Barnes 3 08/17/1882 2107 181 Central Dakota Mortgage Company Huron Beadle 3 10,000 03/08/1884 2110 41 Central Dakota Agricultural Association Oakes Dickey 13 10,000 07/18/1888 2117 428 Central Dakota Bank Arlington Kingsbury 3 25,000 04/21/1888 2117 116 Central Dakota Building and Loan Association Aberdeen Brown 7 500,000 10/21/1887 2116 259 Central Dakota Irrigation Bureau Aberdeen Brown 11 100,000 04/02/1889 2118 491 Central Dakota Land Company Roscoe Edmunds 5 100,000 06/28/1884 2110 331 Central Dakota Publishing Company Aberdeen Brown 7 25,000 04/22/1887 2115 281 Central Dakota University Ordway Brown 7 11/15/1884 2111 64 Central Insurance Company of Dakota Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 03/04/1885 2111 286 Central Methodist Episcopal Church of St. Joseph Township St. Joseph (twp) Pembina 06/04/1886 2113 585 Central Telephone and Telegraph Co. Rockerville & R Pennington 5 10,000 04/07/1880 2104 263 Centre Shot Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/11/1886 2114 63 Challenge Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 05/27/1886 2113 504 Chalmers Bonded Investment Company Watertown Codington 3 1,600,000 09/20/1889 2119 457 Chamber of Commerce of City of Fargo Fargo Cass 13 03/03/1883 2108 143

Page 14 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Chamber of Commerce of City of Mayville Mayville Traill 7 06/02/1886 2113 568 Chamber of Commerce of Fargo Fargo Cass 03/19/1883 2108 174 Chamberlain Board of Trade Chamberlain Brule 11 05/11/1889 2119 88 Chamberlain Building Association Chamberlain Brule 4 6,000 06/04/1889 2119 144 Chamberlain Investment Company Chamberlain Brule 10 10,000 04/02/1889 2118 495 Chamberlain Street Railway Company Chamberlain Brule 6 25,000 08/26/1889 2119 403 Champagne Carbonate Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 05/29/1886 2113 535 Champagne Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 06/05/1886 2114 5 Chanka Lodge No 21 Independent Order of Odd Fellows Mitchell Davison 3 04/21/1887 2115 276 Chantawapka Ranche Morton 3 30,000 05/07/1887 2115 335 Chapter of Calvary Cathedral Sioux Falls Minnehaha 10 09/24/1885 2112 187 Chase Carbonet Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 02/27/1886 2112 401 Chase Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 50,000 08/16/1882 2107 175 Cheyenne River Bridge Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,000 01/17/1885 2111 166 Chicago Coal Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/25/1887 2115 519 Chicago Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 07/06/1886 2114 153 Christ Church Yankton Yankton 3 04/21/1882 2106 290 Christ Church `Yankton Yankton 3 05/31/1882 2107 18 Christian Church of Watertown Watertown Codington 5 04/23/1881 2105 151 Christian Union Congregational Church of Hanksinson, Brightwood Township Hankinson Richland 5 06/16/1887 2115 495 Chrysolite Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 3,000,000 06/10/1886 2114 54 Church of Christ Olivet Hutchinson 3 05/23/1885 2111 543 Church of Christ Lennox Turner 3 09/22/1884 2110 511 Church of God of Canton Canton Lincoln 3 01/30/1888 2116 423 Church of Grace Fairview Twp. Lincoln 3 05/30/1883 2108 337 Church of St. Blanche Oelrichs Dakota Oelrichs Fall River 5 06/01/1889 2119 22 Citizens Association Devils Lake Ramsey 5 5,000 05/25/1889 2119 120 Citizens Bank Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 01/13/1886 2112 285 Citizens Bank Woonsocket Sanborn 3 25,000 07/12/1888 2117 488 Citizens Bank Centerville Turner 3 25,000 09/30/1889 2119 479 Citizens Bank of Woonsocket Woonsocket Sanborn 3 10,000 01/19/1884 2109 425 Citizens Building and Loan Association Plankinton Aurora 9 500,000 06/09/1887 2115 455 Citizens Loan & Building Association of Watertown Watertown Codington 11 500,000 03/17/1885 2111 321 Citizens State Bank Armour Douglas 3-9 60,000 02/18/1887 2115 59

Page 15 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page City Bank Huron Beadle 3 25,000 06/22/1883 2109 39 Clara Julia Oil Company of Wyoming Sturgis Lawrence 7 500,000 03/07/1887 2115 115 Clara Nevada Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/06/1886 2113 160 Claremont First Methodist Episcopal Church Claremont Brown Not Listed 09/30/1887 2116 208 Clark Building & Loan Association Clark Clark 9 1,000,000 05/15/1885 2111 513 Clark Building and Loan Association of Clark (acceptance of amendments) Clark Clark 06/02/1888 2117 215 Clark County Abstract Co. Clark Clark 3 400 01/22/1886 2112 364 Clark County Bank Clark Clark 5 50,000 06/10/1885 2111 576 Clark County Creamery Clark Clark 3 2,500 03/09/1887 2115 153 Clark Creamery Company Clark Clark 7 5,000 11/26/1887 2116 322 Clark Lodge #42 Clark Clark 3 01/14/1886 2112 350 Clark Publishing Company Clark Clark 5 6,000 12/09/1886 2114 493 Clay County Bank Vermillion Clay 5 25,000 03/25/1887 2115 194 Clear Lake Cemetery Association Clear Lake Minnehaha 11 1,000 03/20/1884 2110 91 Cleveland Tin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,000,000 08/15/1887 2116 95 Clifton Cemetery Association Clifton Spink 5 04/22/1885 2111 438 Climax Mining co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/03/1886 2112 406 Close Communion German Baptist Church of Plum Creek Rural Hutchinson 3 01/19/1886 2112 358 Clyde Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 06/14/1886 2114 67 Clydesdale and Hambletonian Horse Company of Dakota Territory Sturgis Lawrence 3 50,000 07/30/1887 2116 44 Clydesdale and Hanbletonian Horse Co. Sturgis City Lawrence 5 50,000 05/21/1885 2111 541 Codington Congregational Church of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 06/18/1881 2105 239 Codington County Abstract Company Watertown Codington 3 10,000 03/13/1888 2116 554 Codington County Abstract Company Watertown Codington 3 08/11/1886 2114 268 Codington County Fair Association Watertown Codington 11 10,000 03/06/1886 2112 419 Coe and Howard Abstract Company Aberdeen Brown 5 15,000 09/20/1887 2116 182 Cold Springs Creamery Olivet Hutchinson 5 4,000 02/27/1885 2111 253 Coleman Cheese Factory Coleman Moody 5 1,000 05/05/1888 2117 151 Colgate Warehouse Association Colgate Steele 5 1,500 06/25/1887 2115 515 Collingwood Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 250 Colman Cemetery Association Colman Moody 5 06/07/1888 2117 242 Colonial Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 07/06/1886 2114 155 Colorado Oil Company Central City Lawrence 5 250,000 04/30/1887 2115 313 Columbia & Dakota Midland Rail road Columbia Brown 9 5,000,000 01/18/1884 2109 421

Page 16 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Columbia & Southwestern Rail Road Co. Columbia Brown 6 18,000 01/26/1882 2106 141 Columbia Cemetery Association Columbia Brown 3-9 04/23/1889 2119 31 Columbia City Bank Columbia Brown 3 5,000 11/26/1888 2118 133 Columbia Creamery Company Columbia Brown 11 5,000 04/24/1888 2117 122 Columbia Euemer Telephone Company Columbia Brown 10 5,000 02/16/1887 2115 57 Columbia Milling Co. Columbia Brown 7 100,000 07/03/1884 2110 339 Columbia Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 3,750,000 02/25/1886 2112 395 Columbia Water Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 08/01/1889 2119 314 Comet Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 12/07/1885 2112 276 Comet Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/24/1881 2105 329 Commercial Exchange Club of Watertown Dakota Watertown Codington 9 2,500 05/04/1889 2119 70 Commonwealth Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 04/30/1886 2113 98 Comstock & Belfast Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 7 750,000 04/12/1886 2112 539 Condor Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 254 Congdon and Henry Hardware Company Rapid City Pennington 3 50,000 03/12/1888 2116 544 Congregation Church of Revillo, County of Grant Dakota Revillo Grant 3-9 03/16/1887 2115 173 Congregation of Bethlehem Cleveland (twp) Ramsey 7 07/19/1888 2117 431 Congregational Church at Sykeston County Sykeston Wells 3 09/27/1884 2111 1 Congregational Church of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 3 08/21/1885 2112 165 Congregational Church of Athol Athol Spink 3 10/07/1881 2106 1 Congregational Church of Aurora Aurora Brookings 3-9 07/28/1887 2116 38 Congregational Church of Bon Homme, County of Bon Homme, Territory of Dak Bon Homme Bon Homme 3-9 12/11/1888 2118 161 Congregational Church of Bowdle County Bowdle Edmunds 3+ 12/31/1886 2114 548 Congregational Church of Buffalo County Sulphur Springs Buffalo 3 11/01/1883 2109 285 Congregational Church of Caledonia Caledonia Traill 3-9 05/29/1886 2113 532 Congregational Church of Cando Cando Turner 3-9 12/14/1887 2116 356 Congregational Church of Canova Canova Miner 3-9 04/06/1888 2117 70 Congregational Church of Carrington Carrington Foster 3 08/22/1883 2109 146 Congregational Church of Carthage Carthage Miner 3-9 05/09/1888 2117 161 Congregational Church of Chamberlain Chamberlain Brule 3 09/03/1881 2105 372 Congregational Church of Christ at Cresbard Cresbard Faulk 3 05/18/1885 2111 521 Congregational Church of Christ at Lake Henry Near Lake Henr Kingsbury 3 01/21/1886 2112 362 Congregational Church of Christ at Myron Myron Faulk 3 05/18/1885 2111 525 Congregational Church of Christ in Dwight Dwight Richland 5 12/20/1887 2116 372

Page 17 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Congregational Church of Christ In Hope Hope Steele 3 12/18/1883 2109 350 Congregational Church of Christ of Hartland Hartland Twp. Kingsbury 3 11/19/1885 2112 248 Congregational Church of Christ of Lesterville, Dakota Lesterville Yankton 5 02/02/1889 2118 336 Congregational Church of Christ of Valley City Valley City Barnes 3 11/26/1881 2106 63 Congregational Church of Clark Clark Clark 3 10/30/1882 2107 286 Congregational Church of Columbia Columbia Brown 3 06/22/1883 2109 41 Congregational Church of Colvin Colvin Chas. Mix 3 11/22/1883 2109 312 Congregational Church of Dover Dover McCook 3 01/10/1883 2108 47 Congregational Church of Eden, County of Lincoln Eden Lincoln 3-9 08/02/1889 2119 321 Congregational Church of Elrod, County of Clark Elrod Clark 3-9 12/13/1888 2118 182 Congregational Church of Emery Emery Hanson 3 11/13/1884 2111 59 Congregational Church of Esmond Esmond Kingsbury 3 01/22/1887 2115 1 Congregational Church of Fargo Fargo Cass 3 12/30/1881 2106 98 Congregational Church of Faulkton Faulkton Faulk 3 01/26/1884 2109 431 Congregational Church of Frankfort Frankfort Spink 3 09/28/1883 2109 211 Congregational Church of Gettysburg Gettysburg Potter 3 07/27/1885 2112 212 Congregational Church of Gladstone Gladstone Clark 3 09/21/1883 2109 199 Congregational Church of Glen Ullin Glen Ullin Morton 3 05/06/1885 2111 472 Congregational Church of Greenleaf, County of Hand Greenleaf Hand 3-9 01/17/1889 2118 290 Congregational Church of Groton Groton Brown 3 05/29/1883 2108 334 Congregational Church of Grove Hill Prairie Twp. Union 3 08/12/1880 2104 353 Congregational Church of Henry Henry Codington 3 03/26/1883 2108 198 Congregational Church of Howard Howard Miner 3 01/06/1885 2111 142 Congregational Church of Inkster Inkster Grand Forks 3 07/13/1885 2112 65 Congregational Church of Ipswich Ipswich Edmunds 3 01/13/1884 2109 471 Congregational Church of Ipswich Ipswich Edmunds 3 09/27/1884 2110 529 Congregational Church of Iroquois Iroquois Kingsbury 3 04/10/1885 2111 367 Congregational Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 3-9 10/07/1889 2119 493 Congregational Church of Jasper Chas Mix 3 09/22/1884 2110 508 Congregational Church of LaGrange La Grange Yankton 3-9 12/03/1887 2116 337 Congregational Church of Lebanon Lebanon Potter 3-9 05/23/1889 2119 99 Congregational Church of Letcher Letcher Miner 3 03/02/1883 2108 134 Congregational Church of Mayville Mayville Traill 3 08/04/1882 2107 149 Congregational Church of Meckling Meckling Clay 3 10/09/1885 2112 214

Page 18 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Congregational Church of Melville Melville Foster 3 08/25/1883 2109 153 Congregational Church of Milbank Milbank Grant 3 01/29/1885 2111 209 Congregational Church of Miranda, County of Faulk Territory of Dakota Miranda Faulk 3-9 08/25/1887 2116 118 Congregational Church of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 08/18/1881 2105 331 Congregational Church of Onida Onida Sully 3 08/24/1883 2109 150 Congregational Church of Osceola Osceola Kingsbury 3-9 12/03/1888 2118 144 Congregational Church of Pembina Pembina Pembina 6 06/01/1882 2107 22 Congregational Church of Preston Lake Preston Kingsbury 3 12/30/1881 2106 95 Congregational Church of Raymond Raymond Clark 3 05/16/1884 2110 239 Congregational Church of Ree Heights Ree Heights Hand 3 09/24/1885 2112 191 Congregational Church of Rose Valley Rose Valley Cass 3-9 07/07/1888 2117 338 Congregational Church of Rosette Park Rosette Park Edmunds 3 11/09/1888 2118 103 Congregational Church of Tappen Tappen Kidder 3 08/17/1883 2109 139 Congregational Church of Towner, McHenry County, Dakota Territory Towner McHenry 3 11/01/1887 2116 280 Congregational Church of Watertown Watertown Codington 3 02/05/1880 2104 201 Congregational Church of Willow Lake Willow Lake Clark 3-9 05/09/1888 2117 158 Congregational Church of Winfred Winfred Lake 3 08/22/1885 2112 167 Congregational Church of Wyndmere Wyndmere Richland 3-9 10/29/1889 2119 551 Congregational Ecclesiastical Society of Armour Armour Douglas 9 08/30/1886 2114 241 Congress Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 461 Connecticut Land Company Pierre Hughes 5 100,000 10/31/1889 2119 542 Conservative Insurance Company Fargo Cass 3 250,000 03/13/1885 2111 307 Constant Mining Company St. Louis 3 40,000 08/08/1882 2107 156 Continental Loan and trust Company of Ipswich, Dakota Ipswich Edmunds 5 200,000 08/13/1888 2117 497 Continental Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 223 Continental Oil Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 508 Continental Tin Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 4 1,250,000 07/19/1889 2119 292 Convention Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 10/05/1887 2116 219 Cooper Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 03/04/1887 2115 145 Cooperative Store of Burbank Burbank Clay 7 10,000 07/16/1885 2112 86 Cooperstown Creamery Cooperstown Griggs 5 5,000 01/18/1888 2116 398 Cora Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 08/04/1886 2114 250 Cornucopia Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 401 Coteau Alliance Redfield Spink 5 100,000 07/06/1888 2117 310

Page 19 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Coteau Lodge Number 54 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Webster Day 7 12/28/1886 2114 536 Crandon Farmers Association Crandon Spink 7 10,000 02/27/1885 2111 251 Crandon Milling Association Crandon Spink 5 20,000 05/16/1885 2111 515 Crawford Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 150,000 09/04/1886 2114 317 Creston Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 12/11/1888 2118 164 Crofton Lodge No. 16 Independent Order of Odd Fellows Devils Lake Ramsey 3 03/08/1884 2110 38 Cross Mining Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 20,000 06/24/1880 2104 297 Crow Peak Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 1,500,000 06/29/1886 2114 135 Crown Point Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/14/1886 2112 530 Crown Point Oil Company Spearfish City Lawrence 5 500,000 06/09/1886 2114 23 Crystal Hill Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 570 Cumberland Gold and Silver Company Central City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/06/1889 2119 174 Cumberland Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 12 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 197 Cummings Cemetery Association Cummings Traill 5 06/21/1888 2117 308 Custer City Building and Loan Association Custer City Custer 6 15,000 09/13/1883 2109 187 Custer County Agricultural Mineral and Stock Association Hermosa Custer 7-11 2,500 09/05/1887 2116 149 Custer Mining Company Custer Custer 7 2,000,000 06/21/1886 2114 108 D. Elwell and Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 25,000 07/12/1884 2110 355 Dakota & Central Railroad (Change of Route 07/22/1885 2112 96 Dakota & Eastern Investment and Banking Co. Bismarck Burleigh 3 25,000 02/07/1885 2111 235 Dakota & Great Southern Railway Co. Cass 6 10,000,000 08/14/1883 2109 130 Dakota & Minnesota Railroad Co. Jamestown Stutsman 5 1,000,000 12/01/1883 2109 336 Dakota (or James) and Elue river Navigation Transportation Company Columbia 25,000 04/27/1883 2108 268 Dakota Agricultural and Livestock Association Mitchell Davison 11 6,000 09/09/1886 2114 333 Dakota and Eastern Mortgage Company Devils Lake Ramsey 7-15 50,000 11/16/1886 2114 446 Dakota and Eastern Mortgage Company (increase of stock) Devils Lake Ramsey 7-15 100,000 06/05/1888 2117 224 Dakota and Great Southern Railway Company (Adoption of Resolutions) Tower City Cass 05/26/1887 2115 383 Dakota and New England Loan and Trust Company of Sioux Falls, Dakota Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5+ 200,000 02/21/1887 2115 69 Dakota and Northwestern Railroad Company Pembina Pembina 7 2,000,000 08/27/1889 2119 414 Dakota and Wyoming Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 10/18/1886 2114 395 Dakota and Wyoming Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 01/24/1889 2118 309 Dakota at James & Elm River Navigation Improvement & Transportation Co. Stutsman 7 500,000 11/14/1879 2104 169 Dakota Bankers Association Fargo Cass 11 1,000 02/18/1881 2105 94 Dakota Book & Stationery Co. Madison Lake 3 5,000 04/20/1885 2111 428

Page 20 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Dakota Brokerage and Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 50,000 11/22/1886 2114 457 Dakota Building and Loan Association of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 11 09/16/1882 2107 215 Dakota Car Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 500,000 09/20/1889 2119 452 Dakota Cattle Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 100,000 04/21/1883 2108 257 Dakota Central Agricultural and Mechanical Fair Association Blunt Hughes 11 5,000 07/12/1885 2112 63 Dakota Central Railroad (Extension of Route) 11/24/1883 2109 317 Dakota Central Railroad Company Brookings Brookings 5 500,000 05/15/1879 2104 90 Dakota Coal Company Bismarck Burleigh 11 100,000 04/11/1882 2106 274 Dakota Coal Economizing Co. Huron Beadle 4 6,000 03/08/1886 2112 420 Dakota Coal Mining & Fuel Co. Mandan Morton 5 50,000 12/31/1881 2106 102 Dakota College Spearfish Lawrence 11 01/17/1881 2105 64 Dakota Collegiate Institute Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 10/17/1881 2106 22 Dakota Company Chicago Cook 7 75,000 03/06/1883 2108 148 Dakota Conference of Evangelical Association of North America Cass 7 07/24/1885 2112 102 Dakota Construction & Hotel company of Pierre Pierre Hughes 5 25,000 08/27/1883 2109 165 Dakota County Bureau New Salem Morton 4 5,000 01/03/1884 2109 388 Dakota Democrat Publishing Co. DeSmet Kingsbury 5 1,000 03/03/1886 2112 404 Dakota Detective Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 07/08/1885 2112 51 Dakota Educational Endowment Association Watertown Codington 6 12/28/1885 2112 313 Dakota Electropathic Medicine Company Yankton Yankton 3 5,000 01/31/1887 2115 30 Dakota Elevator Company Scotland Bon Homme 10 6,000 02/28/1885 2111 282 Dakota Eummuer Telephone Company Redfield Spink 7 100,000 10/11/1886 2114 376 Dakota Farm Improvement Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 10,000 05/19/1881 2105 180 Dakota Farm Mortgage Company Huron Beadle 7 1,000,000 10/27/1887 2116 271 Dakota Farmer Elevator Co Freeman Hutchinson 9 5,000 03/30/1886 2112 490 Dakota Farmers Alliance Company Aberdeen Brown 11 20,000 10/18/1887 2116 250 Dakota Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Chamberlain Brule 5 100,000 05/26/1881 2105 203 Dakota Gas and Fuel Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 100,000 10/20/1887 2116 257 Dakota Guaranty Savings Bank Fargo Cass 7 25,000 03/04/1887 2115 98 Dakota Hail Association Plankinton Aurora 7 02/09/1889 2118 354 Dakota Homeopathic Medical Association Ashton Spink 5 07/26/1886 2114 204 Dakota Hot Springs Company Hot Springs Custer 3 2,000,000 10/24/1882 2107 283 Dakota Improvement Building and Construction Company Yankton Yankton 6 100,000 09/10/1884 2110 499 Dakota Improvement Company Watertown Codington 3 1,000,000 12/18/1885 2112 300

Page 21 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Dakota Improvement Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 9 100,000 02/04/1881 2105 88 Dakota Investment Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 50,000 05/13/1884 2110 219 Dakota Investment Company (increase of stock) Grand Forks Grand Forks 100,000 11/25/1887 2116 321 Dakota Land & Loan Company Appomattox Potter 6 25,000 08/29/1883 2109 168 Dakota Land and Townsite Company Langdon Cavalier 3 07/19/1887 2116 9 Dakota Land Company Fargo Cass 3 25,000 12/27/1882 2108 16 Dakota Land Improvement Company Faulkton Faulk 4 5,000 12/26/1882 2108 12 Dakota Light & Fuel Co. Fargo Cass 9 50,000 04/14/1886 2112 532 Dakota Light and Fuel Company Fargo Cass 04/26/1886 2113 65 Dakota Loan & Mortgage Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 01/16/1885 2111 162 Dakota Loan & Security Company Clark Clark 3 50,000 09/05/1884 2110 490 Dakota Loan & Trust Co. Pierre Hughes 4 100,000 11/09/1885 2112 239 Dakota Loan & Trust Co. Pierre Hughes 3 100,000 02/27/1885 2111 276 Dakota Loan & Trust Co. of Watertown Watertown Codington 5 500,000 12/21/1885 2112 308 Dakota Loan & Trust Company Canton Lincoln 3 100,000 08/18/1881 2105 312 Dakota Loan and Security Company of Clark Dakota (amendment to incorporati Clark Clark 05/12/1888 2117 172 Dakota Loan and Trust Company (acceptance of provisions) Watertown Codington 03/11/1889 2118 437 Dakota Loan and Trust Company of Watertown, Dakota (acceptance of amend Watertown Codington 01/17/1889 2118 314 Dakota Lumber Company Fargo Cass 3 10,000 09/08/1881 2105 377 Dakota Methodist Episcopal Church Lakota Nelson 12/09/1885 2112 279 Dakota Methodist Publishing Company Milbank Grant 9 10,000 05/25/1889 2119 118 Dakota Milling Company Fargo Cass 3-11 10,000 06/11/1887 2115 462 Dakota Milling Company Brandon Spink 5 30,000 01/15/1889 2118 281 Dakota Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 05/26/1880 2104 300 Dakota Mortgage & Land Trust Co. Grand View 3 100,000 09/10/1885 2112 178 Dakota Mortgage Banking Co. Huron Beadle 3 20,000 12/28/1885 2112 316 Dakota Mortgage Loan Corporation Milnor Sargent 3 50,000 08/25/1883 2109 156 Dakota Mutual Life and Endowment Association Bismarck Burleigh 3 09/27/1883 2109 203 Dakota Mutual Life Insurance Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 09/26/1884 2110 527 Dakota Mutual Relief Association Plankinton Aurora 5 02/24/1887 2115 129 Dakota Mutual Relief Association Plankinton Aurora 5 02/24/1887 2115 78 Dakota Nebraska Loan and Trust Company of Rapid City, Dakota Rapid City Pennington 7 100,000 02/18/1887 2115 86 Dakota Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 424 Dakota Opera House Watertown Codington 3 05/13/1885 2111 510

Page 22 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Dakota Packing and Provisions Company Huron Beadle 4 10,000 10/01/1886 2114 369 Dakota Packing Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-5 2,500 11/17/1886 2114 450 Dakota Pharmaceutical Association Fargo Cass 8 12/13/1886 2114 503 Dakota Publishing Company Yankton Yankton 3 2,500 12/08/1881 2106 74 Dakota Publishing Company Huron Beadle 3 2,000 11/01/1886 2114 412 Dakota Pulp & Textile Co. Yankton Yankton 10 100,000 10/11/1884 2111 23 Dakota Quarry and Mining Company Buffalo Gap Custer 3 50,000 05/04/1889 2119 72 Dakota Railroad Company Bismarck Burleigh 6 5,000,000 11/07/1879 2104 166 Dakota Realty Company Clark Clark 4 50,000 01/28/1887 2115 28 Dakota River View Cemetery Forestburg Sanborn 5 03/29/1886 2112 487 Dakota Scientific Association Yankton Yankton 5 09/09/1879 2104 122 Dakota Shirt Company Aurora Brookings 3 10,000 08/13/1887 2116 87 Dakota Smelting Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 500,000 10/28/1881 2106 30 Dakota State Bindery Company Huron Beadle 5 15,000 05/16/1887 2115 346 Dakota Telephone Company Fargo Cass 3 50,000 11/01/1883 2109 280 Dakota Territorial Agricultural Society Yankton Yankton 3 none 08/02/1878 2104 3 Dakota Thorough Bred Cattle Nursery Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 250,000 08/20/1885 2112 159 Dakota Union Railway Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 15,840,000 05/30/1887 2115 410 Dakota University Mitchell Davison 3 04/27/1885 2111 445 Dakota University ??? ???? 3 07/13/1883 2109 251 Dakota Western Railway Co. Tower City Cass 13 6,750,000 03/27/1886 2112 472 Dakota Wyoming and Western Rail road Co. Rapid City Pennington 7 12,000,000 05/12/1882 2106 330 Danby Mining and Milling Company Custer City Custer 7 2,000,000 06/05/1886 2113 589 Darboy Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 800,000 03/13/1885 2111 304 Davenport Town Lot Company Watertown Codington 5 2,000 07/13/1888 2117 323 Davison County Horse Breeding Association Mitchell Davison 3 5,000 04/02/1888 2117 48 Dawson City Land Improvement Co. Chicago Cook 3 100,000 09/11/1882 2107 201 Dawson Milling Company Dawson Kidder 3 20,000 06/15/1886 2114 80 Dawson, Ontario, and Mouse River Railway Company Dawson Kidder 6 5,000,000 06/21/1886 2114 99 Day County Agricultural Association Webster Day 7 05/08/1886 2113 167 Day County Real Estate Exchange Webster Day 3 20,000 04/05/1886 2112 508 Deadwood & Centennial Road and Tunnel Co. Deadwood Lawrence 9 50,000 03/16/1880 2104 233 Deadwood & Central City Toll Road Deadwood Lawrence 3 10,000 07/20/1882 2107 101 Deadwood & Lead City Rail Road Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 200,000 04/05/1880 2104 260

Page 23 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Deadwood & Northwestern Wagon and Toll road Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 25,000 03/22/1879 2104 80 Deadwood & Redwater Valley Railway Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 10,000,000 08/21/1879 2104 127 Deadwood & Sturgis City Toll Road Deadwood Lawrence 3 15,000 01/28/1880 2104 195 Deadwood & Wyoming Railroad Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 01/31/1884 2109 453 Deadwood and Bear Butte Rail Road Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 750,000 08/29/1879 2104 133 Deadwood and Black Hills Railroad Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 11/11/1887 2116 293 Deadwood and Black Hills Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 09/21/1887 2116 189 Deadwood and Cheyenne Railway Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 3,000,000 02/15/1883 2108 96 Deadwood and Crook City Wagon Road Deadwood Lawrence 3 09/08/1878 2104 16 Deadwood and Galena Wagon Road Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 5,000 01/24/1887 2115 3 Deadwood and Gayville Toll road Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 10,000 11/13/1882 2107 303 Deadwood and Lead City Horse Rail Road Company Lead City Lawrence 5 50,000 11/27/1878 2104 29 Deadwood Bald Mountain Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 12/20/1888 2118 239 Deadwood Board of Land Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 02/10/1886 2112 372 Deadwood Carbonate Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 873,000 09/27/1881 2105 394 Deadwood Carbonate Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 625,000 08/08/1881 2105 298 Deadwood Cattle Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 250,000 11/07/1882 2107 298 Deadwood Central Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/20/1888 2117 533 Deadwood Central Railroad Company (decrease in stock) Deadwood Lawrence 5 300,000 07/15/1889 2119 283 Deadwood Consolidated Mining and Reduction Company Deadwood Lawrence 9 1,500,000 04/29/1889 2119 54 Deadwood Driving Park Deadwood Lawrence 06/28/1881 2105 251 Deadwood Driving Park Association Deadwood Lawrence 13 5,000 06/28/1880 2104 318 Deadwood Enterprise Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 750,000 12/11/1882 2107 331 Deadwood Flowing Well Co. Deadwood Lawrence 4 50,000 10/03/1884 2111 3 Deadwood Gas & Light and Coke Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 50,000 11/26/1879 2104 173 Deadwood Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/30/1886 2113 77 Deadwood Gulch Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 500,000 10/03/1882 2107 254 Deadwood Lead Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 250,000 05/14/1886 2113 318 Deadwood Light Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 12/10/1880 2105 21 Deadwood Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/06/1886 2113 148 Deadwood Opera House Association Deadwood Lawrence 5 10,000 01/12/1885 2111 152 Deadwood Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company of Deadwood Deadwood Lawrence 4 08/13/1888 2117 492 Deadwood Reduction Works Deadwood Lawrence 7 100,000 12/06/1887 2116 347 Deadwood Redwater Valley Railway Co. Deadwood Lawrence 6 1,000,000 02/27/1880 2104 212

Page 24 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Deadwood Redwater Valley Railway Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,200,000 03/19/1881 2105 113 Deadwood Smelting Works Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 06/29/1887 2115 548 Deadwood Stock Exchange Deadwood Lawrence 11 10,000 06/17/1886 2114 87 Deadwood Street Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 08/20/1888 2117 537 Deadwood, Sturgis, and Chamberlain Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 11/20/1888 2118 117 Deer Creek Oil Company Rapid City Pennington 5 10,000,000 09/08/1886 2114 328 Deer Mountain Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 04/26/1886 2113 61 Delhi Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 350 Dell Rapids Bank Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 25,000 08/02/1884 2110 413 Dell Rapids Cheese Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 5 2,000 02/15/1886 2112 380 Dell Rapids Creamery Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 9 5,000 12/09/1886 2114 488 Dell Rapids Elevator Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 5 8,000 07/30/1887 2116 48 Dell Rapids Granite Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 5 50,000 03/11/1889 2118 439 Dell Rapids Roller Mill Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 25,000 08/19/1889 2119 380 Dells Mining Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 100,000 12/10/1884 2111 107 Delmont Farmers Association Delmont Douglas 7 3,000 08/17/1888 2117 523 Democrat Printing Company Clark Clark 5 5,000 03/25/1889 2118 474 Democrat Publishing Co. Fargo Cass 3 3,500 01/04/1884 2109 399 Democrat Publishing Company Huron Beadle 5 15,000 03/23/1885 2111 340 Den Morsk Evangelical Lutherske Meldahl Menighed Twp. 98 Yankton 3 03/12/1884 2110 61 Den Norsk Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Menighed Church Twp. 96 Turner 3 09/21/1882 2107 236 Den Skandinaviske Evangeliske Lutherske Trefoldigheds Meuieghed Yankton Yankton 3 08/26/1887 2116 122 Denver Cemetery Association Nordland Kingsbury 5 03/16/1885 2111 314 Der Deutschen Verem of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 5 20,000 09/25/1885 2112 199 Desire Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 600,000 10/28/1885 2112 229 DeSmet Banking Company DeSmet Kingsbury 3 100,000 10/07/1889 2119 491 DeSmet Cemetery Association DeSmet Kingsbury 5 08/08/1881 2105 284 DeSmet Cheese and Butter Company DeSmet Kingsbury 5 2,000 04/29/1887 2115 305 DeSmet Cornet Band Association DeSmet Kingsbury 9 2,000 08/08/1884 2110 442 DeSmet Driving Park and Agriculture Association DeSmet Kingsbury 5 2,000 10/06/1888 2118 47 DeSmet Driving Park Association DeSmet Kingsbury 5 5,000 07/02/1884 2110 337 DeSmet Hotel Company DeSmet Kingsbury 5 10,000 05/07/1887 2115 333 Detroit Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/15/1887 2115 155 Detroit Methodist Episcopal Church Detroit Brown 5 09/29/1883 2109 219

Page 25 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Detroit Townsite Company of Brown County Detroit Brown 4 20,000 05/12/1884 2110 226 Deuel County Agricultural Fair Association Clear Lake Deuel 7 05/29/1885 2111 557 Deuel County Agricultural Society Gary Deuel 3 07/18/1884 2110 364 Deuel County Bank Gary Deuel 3 or 5 50,000 10/08/1888 2118 51 Deutsche Evangelical Friedent Gemeinde of New Salem New Salem Morton 3 12/19/1883 2109 352 Devils Lake Building and Loan Association Devils Lake Ramsey 10 500,000 04/10/1888 2117 79 Devils Lake Creamery Company Devils Lake Ramsey 5 5,000 05/02/1888 2117 139 Devils Lake Mill Company Devils Lake Ramsey 3 25,000 04/13/1888 2117 97 Devils Lake Town Site Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 3,000,000 11/24/1882 2107 314 Dhalsborgs Svewska Evangelical Lutherska Augustana Forsmling Twp. 94 Clay 4 03/12/1883 2108 160 Diamond Queen Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 10 1,250,000 01/19/1889 2118 294 Diana Farmers Warehouse Company Diana Sanborn 7 5,000 07/05/1887 2115 567 Diana Repair and Manufacturing Company Diana Sanborn 5 1,400 11/13/1886 2114 433 Dickenson Cemetery Association Dickinson Stark 5 10/10/1887 2116 224 Dickey County Bank 02/20/1883 2108 114 Dickey County Bank Ellendale Dickey 3 25,000 12/07/1882 2107 325 Dickinson Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 256 Dido Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/08/1886 2113 178 Die Freir Evngelische Congregation Yankton Yankton 3 02/07/1885 2111 229 Dime Savings Bank Aberdeen Brown 3 100,000 10/15/1889 2119 519 Division Number 1 of Board of Erin Ancient Order of Hibernians Mandan Morton 5 03/19/1889 2118 457 Doland Cemetery Association Doland Spink 5 02/23/1886 2112 394 Doland Creamery Association Doland Spink 5 03/30/1888 2117 35 Doland Publishing Company Doland Spink 5 600 02/24/1887 2115 76 Dolphin Mining and Milling Company Custer City Custer 7 4,000,000 06/09/1886 2114 21 Double Standard Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/13/1887 2115 340 Drayton Methodist Episcopal Church Drayton Pembina 3 01/29/1881 2105 81 Drifting Goose Lodge N. 85, I.O.O.F. Mellette Spink 3 12/05/1888 2118 148 Duluth Fargo & Black Hills Railway Co. Fargo Cass 11 1,000,000 03/08/1884 2110 59 Duluth Huron & Denver Railroad Company Huron Beadle 10,0000,00 08/19/1885 2112 157 Duluth Milbank and South Western Railway Company Milbank Grant 5 3,000,000 10/12/1887 2116 234 Duluth Milbank Huron and Chamberlain Railroad Company Milbank Grant 6 1,800,000 09/07/1889 2119 420 Duluth Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 12/11/1888 2118 166 Duluth Pierre and Black Hills Rail Road Company Pierre Hughes 7 3,000,000 10/01/1886 2114 371

Page 26 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Duluth Watertown & Pacific Railway Co. Watertown Codington 7 18,0000,00 08/21/1885 2112 160 Duluth, Clark, and Southwestern Rail Road Company Clark Clark 7 1,600,000 01/28/1887 2115 26 Duluth, Dakota and Manitoba Railway Grafton Walsh 7 500,000 10/10/1887 2116 236 Dunseith & Southeastern Railroad Co. Rolette and F 5 2,000,000 06/05/1884 2110 274 Eagle Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 02/05/1887 2115 40 East Choteau Methodist Episcopal Church East Choteau T Douglas 5 04/10/1885 2111 409 Eastern Dakota Railroad Fargo Cass 5 1,500,000 12/19/1882 2108 10 Eastern Investment Company Clear Lake Deuel 6 100,000 11/08/1886 2114 426 Ebenezer German Presbyterian Church of Lennox Lennox Lincoln 3 01/17/1889 2118 292 Eclipse Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/13/1886 2113 252 Edgeley Town Hall Association Edgeley LaMoure 3 1,500 06/05/1888 2117 226 Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 7 50,000 10/16/1883 2109 247 Edmond Cemetery Association Edmond Kingsbury 5 07/23/1885 2112 99 Edmunds Agricultural Fair Association Ipswich Edmunds 11 5,000 06/15/1886 2114 78 Edmunds County Abstract Company Ipswich Edmunds 6 10,000 11/04/1889 2118 568 Edmunds Townsite Company Aberdeen Brown 7 50,000 04/12/1883 2108 230 Edna Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 02/24/1886 2112 396 Edwards & Bradford Lumber Co. Bismarck Burleigh 3 50,000 08/27/1883 2109 162 Edwards Blackwell Lumber Company Valley City Barnes 3 5,000 10/03/1883 2109 221 Egan Cemetery Association Eagan Moody 5 03/23/1885 2111 346 Egan Union Tow Mill co. Egan Moody 5 4,000 11/06/1884 2111 40 El Refugio Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 100,000 06/21/1879 2104 109 Eldorado Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/01/1886 2113 102 Electropathic Institute and School of Telegraphy Yankton Yankton 3 01/23/1885 2111 188 Elk Mountain Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 500,000 05/13/1886 2113 239 Elk Point Building and Loan Association Elk Point Union 7 500,000 10/18/1889 2119 529 Elk Point Cemetery Association Elk Point Union 7 09/26/1879 2104 156 Elk Point Creamery Company Elk Point Union 3 5,000 02/19/1883 2108 112 Elk Point Opera House Company Elk Point Union 8 2,000 01/17/1887 2114 566 Elkendale Land Company Ellendale Dickey 4 10,000 06/11/1883 2109 16 Elko Extension Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 328 Elko Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 205 Elko Silver Ridge Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 396 Elkton Farmer's alliance Warehouse Co. Elkton Brookings 7 07/12/1885 2112 68

Page 27 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Elkton Methodist Episcopal Church Elkton Brookings Not Listed 09/15/1887 2116 170 Elkton Stock Breeders Association Elkton Brookings 5 1,500 03/18/1889 2118 449 Elkwood Presbyterian Church Elkwood Cavalier 5 05/14/1887 2115 344 Ellendale and Wahpeton Railroad Co. Ellendale Dickey 13 250,000 07/19/1882 2107 97 Ellendale Board of Trade Ellendale Dickey 5 08/02/1884 2110 410 Ellendale Building and Loan Association Ellendale Dickey 7 100,000 12/20/1886 2114 521 Ellendale Cemetery Association Ellendale Dickey 3 12/07/1882 2107 328 Ellendale Creamery Association Ellendale Dickey 7 5,000 02/01/1888 2116 427 Ellendale Library Association Ellendale Dickey 7 01/22/1883 2108 77 Ellendale Mill company Ellendale Dickey 5 90,000 04/13/1889 2118 547 Ellisville Coal Company Ellisville Faulk 3 20,000 08/17/1886 2114 279 Elm Creek Brown and White Sand Stone Company Buffalo Gap Custer 3 500,000 01/17/1889 2118 287 Elm Grove Ditch Company Elm Grove Custer 3 2,000 03/07/1883 2108 153 Elm River Library Association Ordway Brown 7 2,000 01/27/1882 2106 145 Elmo Mining & Milling co. Lawrence 5 100,000 03/19/1884 2110 107 Emanuel Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Berlin Richland 3 04/23/1883 2108 250 Emanuel's Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Hutchinson 3 12/16/1884 2111 125 Emerado Cemetery Association Emerado Grand Forks 6 01/21/1888 2116 403 Emerson Institute of Mandan Mandan Burleigh 5 05/24/1880 2104 284 Emery Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 05/22/1886 2113 459 Emmanuel Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Alban (twp) Grant 3+ 04/30/1886 2113 83 Emmanuel Reformed Church in Bon Homme County Springfield Bon Homme Not Listed 04/05/1889 2118 502 Emmett Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/20/1886 2113 40 Empire Carbonate Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 750,000 03/09/1885 2111 295 Empire Carbonate Mining Co.((increase capitol) 250,000 05/19/1885 2111 528 Empire Coal Company Huron Beadle 5 500,000 01/23/1888 2116 401 Empire Consolidated Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 12/26/1878 2104 40 Empire Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 250,000 01/19/1887 2114 577 Endymion Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 12/07/1885 2112 275 Equitable Investment Company Watertown Codington 7 100,000 02/26/1887 2115 92 Equitable Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 08/27/1888 2117 558 Erie Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 1,250,000 03/04/1887 2115 142 Erwin Buying and Shipping Association Hartland Kingsbury 5 3,000 08/06/1887 2116 68 Erwin Cemetery Association Erwin Kingsbury 5 04/16/1883 2108 237

Page 28 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Esperanza Silver Mining Company Spearfish City Lawrence 7 1,000,000 05/22/1886 2113 457 Estelline Cemetery Association Estelline Hamlin 3 06/02/1886 2113 572 Eureka Gas Company Eureka Sanborn 5 25,000 04/17/1888 2117 103 Eureka Hydraulic and Quartz Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/22/1880 2104 265 Eureka Lodge No. 13 I.O.O.F. Deadwood Lawrence 3 04/10/1885 2111 390 Eureka Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/12/1881 2105 296 Eureka Mining Company (Increase of Stock) Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/18/1886 2114 280 Evangelic Lutheran Church of Twp. Savo Brown 01/07/1885 2111 136 Evangelic Lutheran St. Takobin Genecide of Leola Leola McPherson 3-11 04/12/1888 2117 88 Evangelical Christian Church of Eagle Twp, Richland County Eagle (twp) Richland 3 07/10/1889 2119 266 Evangelical Congregational German Church at Scotland Scotland Bon Homme 3-9 10/08/1886 2114 374 Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem's Congregation Alban Grant 3-11 07/06/1886 2114 149 Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. John Abercrombie T Richland 3 01/22/1885 2111 180 Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Wild Rice Dwight Twp. Richland 3 01/22/1885 2111 182 Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Grafton Walsh 5 02/19/1886 2112 383 Evangelical Lutheran Congregation at White Lake White Lake Aurora 4 12/15/1885 2112 290 Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Albion Albion (twp) Dickey 3 04/27/1889 2118 493 Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Grand Forks Dakota Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 04/19/1887 2115 252 Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Willow Burk Twp. Minnehaha 3 03/29/1886 2112 476 Evangelical Lutheran Emanuel Congregation Hutchinson 4 06/02/1884 2110 264 Evangelical Lutheran Emanuel's Congregation Pearl McCook 3 08/30/1888 2118 3 Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Congregation Armour Douglas Not Listed 02/25/1888 2116 464 Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel's Congregation Belle Prairie Beadle 6 06/29/1885 2112 30 Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannes Congregation Bath Brown Per Discipli 07/11/1889 2119 255 Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannes Congregation of Warner Dakota Warner Brown 3 05/09/1889 2119 82 Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation of Unaltered Augsburg Confession Howard Miner 3 04/15/1887 2115 286 Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation of Unaltered Augsburg Confession Wolsey Beadle 3 11/27/1886 2114 459 Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Congregation of Havana Havana Deuel Not Listed 09/26/1888 2118 34 Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Congregation of Unaltered Augsburg Confession Grant 3-11 06/14/1887 2115 488 Evangelical Lutheran St. Peter Congregation Hartland/Badge Kingsbury 3 03/10/1888 2116 541 Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg Confessio Foster (twp) Beadle 3 03/27/1889 2118 477 Evangelical Lutheran Zion Congregation Aberdeen Brown Not Listed 05/29/1889 2119 15 Evangelical Lutheran Zion Congregation of Scotland Scotland Bon Homme 3 12/24/1885 2112 310 Evangelical Lutheran Zions Congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession Acton Walsh 3 02/09/1888 2116 442

Page 29 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Evans Missouri River Transportation Line ?? ?? 4 12,500 05/27/1885 2111 548 Evergreen Cemetery Association Hot Springs Fall River 9 10/17/1887 2116 242 Evergreen Cemetery Association Rapid City Pennington 5 09/24/1888 2118 31 Excelsior Miea Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 200,000 10/09/1881 2106 6 Excelsior Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 6 50,000 02/27/1885 2111 271 Excelsior Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 211 Excelsior Oil Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 465 Excelsior Roller Rink Wahpeton Richland 5 6,000 03/16/1885 2111 312 Exchange Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 06/27/1887 2115 528 Fairbank Investment Company Fairbank Sully 3 12,000 09/03/1884 2110 485 Fairbank Townsite Company Fairbank Sully 7 100,000 10/13/1883 2109 245 Fairburn Farmers Alliance Company Fairburn Custer 5 100,000 04/05/1889 2118 500 Fairfield Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 12/03/1888 2118 137 Fairlawn Cemetery Association Aurora Brookings 3 01/06/1885 2111 145 Fairview Cemetery Bismarck Burleigh 7 1,000 06/04/1880 2104 308 Fairview Cemetery Association Northville Spink 7 02/13/1883 2108 101 Fairview Cemetery Association White Brookings 5 02/27/1886 2112 400 Fairview Cemetery Association Fairview Twp. Lincoln 3 01/20/1882 2106 134 Fairview Cemetery Company Rural Jerauld 5 05/02/1885 2111 464 Fall River Stone Company Smithwick Fall River 5 800,000 12/17/1887 2116 360 Far West Gold & Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,00,000 10/09/1881 2106 9 Far West Gold and Silver Mining Company (increase of stock) Deadwood Lawrence 1,250,000 03/15/1887 2115 172 Fargo & Moorhead Telephone Exchange Co. Fargo Cass 5 5,000 12/27/1880 2105 46 Fargo & Northwestern Railway Co. Fargo Cass 12 500,000 08/25/1881 2105 334 Fargo & Southern Railway Co.(Increase of Capital 1,250,000 11/19/1883 2109 310 Fargo & Southern Railway Company Fargo Cass 13 100,000 06/25/1881 2105 248 Fargo & Southwestern Railway Co. Fargo Cass 5 4,000,000 08/20/1881 2105 326 Fargo Agricultural Society Fargo Cass 9 10,000 05/21/1881 2105 192 Fargo and Northern Railroad Company Fargo Cass 9 100,000 04/19/1886 2113 20 Fargo and Southern Elevator Company Fargo Cass 5 50,000 08/02/1884 2110 405 Fargo Brick & Tile Company Fargo Cass 5 20,000 03/08/1881 2105 109 Fargo Building Association Fargo Cass 10/24/1885 2112 225 Fargo Building Association Fargo Cass 11 600,000 03/27/1880 2104 250 Fargo Cast Wheel & Iron Works Co. Fargo Cass 04/06/1882 2106 272

Page 30 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Fargo College Fargo Cass 11 03/28/1888 2117 26 Fargo Columbia & Missouri River Rail Road Co. Fargo Cass 6 4,800,000 04/02/1880 2104 254 Fargo Construction Company Fargo Cass 3 420,000 04/28/1883 2108 270 Fargo Cooperative Sash, Door, and Blind Association Fargo Cass 10 20,000 07/08/1887 2115 571 Fargo Detroit & Deadwood Railway Co. Brown 8 5,000,000 04/10/1884 2110 130 Fargo Electric Light & Power Co. Fargo Cass 3 30,000 11/08/1881 2106 47 Fargo Electric Light & Power Co. Fargo Cass 12/08/1881 2106 76 Fargo Gas and Electric Company Fargo Cass 4 250,000 03/19/1889 2118 395 Fargo Gas Light & Coke Company Fargo Cass 3 100,000 09/10/1883 2109 183 Fargo Gas Light & Fuel Co. Fargo Cass 11 50,000 10/17/1881 2106 27 Fargo Gas Light Co. Fargo Cass 10/31/1881 2106 34 Fargo Gas Wheel & Iron Works Co. Fargo Cass 7 100,000 03/16/1882 2106 244 Fargo Grand Forks and Pembina Railroad Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 11 1,500,000 02/08/1883 2108 87 Fargo Hotel Co. Fargo Cass 7 100,000 04/12/1883 2108 228 Fargo Improvement Company Fargo Cass 5 250,000 05/12/1882 2106 328 Fargo Improvement Company Fargo Cass 06/19/1882 2107 62 Fargo Incandescent Light Company Fargo Cass 5 100,000 04/06/1888 2117 65 Fargo Insurance Co. Fargo Cass 11 100 12/23/1880 2105 36 Fargo Insurance Company Fargo Cass 05/09/1881 2105 167 Fargo Land & Trust Company Fargo Cass 5 100,000 01/18/1881 2106 54 Fargo Laramie Northern Railway Co. Fargo Cass 7 1,000,000 01/31/1884 2109 456 Fargo Library Association Fargo Cass 9 12/11/1882 2107 337 Fargo Loan Agency Fargo Cass 5 100,000 06/27/1887 2115 526 Fargo Loan Agency (increase of stock) Fargo Cass 5 5,000,000 09/26/1889 2119 461 Fargo Lumber Company Fargo Cass 02/23/1883 2108 115 Fargo Lumber Company Fargo Cass 5 100,000 01/27/1883 2108 59 Fargo Missouri River and Pacific Railroad Company Fargo Cass 8 8,000,000 05/02/1884 2110 236 Fargo Opera House Association Fargo Cass 7 50,000 12/08/1881 2106 77 Fargo Palace Hotel Co. Fargo Cass 5 300,000 04/18/1882 2106 279 Fargo Paper Mill Fargo Cass 7 150,000 07/20/1882 2107 104 Fargo Paper Mill Company 09/04/1882 2107 200 Fargo Republican Company Fargo Cass 5 25,000 04/23/1881 2105 147 Fargo Roller Mills Fargo Cass 03/27/1883 2108 201 Fargo Roller Mills Fargo Cass 3 300,000 03/10/1883 2108 155

Page 31 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Fargo Savings & Loan Association Fargo Cass 5 250,000 11/16/1882 2107 308 Fargo Stone Company Fargo Cass 3 50,000 09/23/1882 2107 239 Fargo Stone Company Fargo Cass 11/06/1882 2107 294 Fargo Street Railway Company Fargo Cass 11 10,000 08/25/1881 2105 340 Fargo Water & Steam Co. Fargo Cass 6 75,000 08/12/1880 2104 350 Fargo, Devils Lake and Turtle Mountain Railroad Company Devils Lake Ramsey 6 3,000,000 08/07/1886 2114 260 Fargo, Grand Forks and Pembina Railway Company Hillsboro Traill 5 1,500,000 02/11/1887 2115 52 Farmer & Merchants Grain & Elevator Co. Flandreau Moody 5 2,000 11/04/1885 2112 236 Farmer and Merchants Bank Iroquois Kingsbury 3 100,000 06/05/1888 2117 220 Farmer Elevator Company of Waverly Waverly Codington 7 5,000 04/10/1885 2111 370 Farmers & Millers Association Crook City Lawrence 6 02/18/1881 2105 98 Farmers Alliance Company of Warner, Dakota Warner Brown 5 15,000 09/10/1888 2118 14 Farmers Alliance Elevator & Warehouse Co. Mt. Vernon Davison 11 5,000 04/02/1886 2112 497 Farmers Alliance of Harford Hartford Minnehaha 7 5,000 10/24/1887 2116 269 Farmers Alliance of Ramsey Devils Lake Ramsey 5 5,000 11/07/1887 2116 285 Farmers and Merchants Bank Webster Day 3 25,000 11/15/1888 2118 113 Farmers and Merchants Bank Wahpeton Richland 7 30,000 09/21/1887 2116 187 Farmers and Merchants Bank of Cooperstown Cooperstown Griggs 5 15,000 04/17/1889 2118 556 Farmers and Millers Association Crook City Lawrence 20,000 05/11/1881 2105 167 Farmers and Traders Bank Kimball Brule 3 25,000 08/19/1884 2110 460 Farmers and Traders Bank of Kimball (Increase of Stock) Kimball Brule 8 50,000 08/11/1886 2114 267 Farmers Association of Brandon Brandon Minnehaha 7 5,000 10/04/1887 2116 217 Farmers Bank Groton Brown 5 35,000 05/20/1886 2113 422 Farmers Bank of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 3 18,000 03/05/1884 2110 30 Farmers Bank of South Dakota, in the County of Kingsbury Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 5,000 04/27/1889 2119 50 Farmer's Beadle County Protective Association Huron Beadle 11 50,000 07/16/1885 2112 78 Farmers Capitol Investment Company Bridgewater McCook 9 300,000 07/06/1889 2119 253 Farmer's Combination Grist Mill Co. Spring Lake Hand 7 4,000 07/13/1885 2112 74 Farmers Co-operative Creamery Association Worthing Lincoln 8 20,000 04/16/1883 2108 246 Farmers Co-Operative Loan Association Aurora Brookings 7 5,000,000 02/21/1889 2118 391 Farmers Cooperative Warehouse Association St. Olaf Minnehaha 7 5,000 09/24/1887 2116 198 Farmers Corporation Newark Marshall 11 20,000 05/10/1888 2117 170 Farmers Creamery Association St. Olaf Minnehaha 3 5,000 02/13/1889 2118 364 Farmers Creamery Association Estelline Hamlin 3 2,500 10/28/1889 2119 547

Page 32 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Farmers Egan Elevator Company Egan Moody 5 7,500 09/29/1887 2116 194 Farmers Elevator & Milling Co. St. Lawrence Hand 5 5,000 05/12/1885 2111 507 Farmers Elevator and Manufacturing Company Woonsocket Sanborn 5 15,000 07/29/1886 2114 215 Farmers Elevator and Milling Company (increase of stock) St. Lawrence Hand 5 15,000 09/02/1886 2114 312 Farmers Elevator and Warehouse Frankfort Spink 7 10,000 07/29/1887 2116 42 Farmers Elevator Co. of Plankinton Plankinton Aurora 9 5,000 04/02/1886 2112 499 Farmers Elevator Co. of Redfield Redfield Spink 9 15,000 05/21/1885 2111 532 Farmers Elevator Company Mellette Spink 7 50,000 07/10/1884 2110 344 Farmers Elevator Company Lidgerwood Richland 7 5,000 07/19/1889 2119 294 Farmers Elevator Company Doland Spink 5 7,500 04/20/1885 2111 406 Farmers Elevator Company Oriska Barnes 3 10,000 07/22/1886 2114 192 Farmer's Elevator Company Warner Brown 5 7,500 09/24/1885 2112 204 Farmers Elevator Company of Corona Corona Roberts 7 1,000 11/09/1888 2118 105 Farmers Elevator Company of Frederick Frederick Brown 7 5,000 06/24/1887 2115 511 Farmers Elevator Company of Ipswich Ipswich Edmunds 7 6,000 07/03/1886 2114 141 Farmers Elevator Company of LaMoure LaMoure LaMoure 5 5,000 03/02/1889 2118 404 Farmers Elevator Company of Mayville Mayville Traill 5 6,000 07/31/1888 2117 461 Farmer's Elevator Company of Minto Minto Walsh 9 2,500 01/13/1886 2112 348 Farmers Elevator Company of Raymond Raymond Clark 5 7,000 07/26/1888 2117 447 Farmers Elevator Company of Raymond Raymond Clark 5 2,000 08/04/1887 2116 56 Farmers Elevator Company of Reynolds Reynolds Grand Forks 7 3,500 08/14/1886 2114 273 Farmers Exchange Webster Day 5 2,000 07/05/1887 2115 565 Farmers Hail Association Highmore Hyde 11 02/21/1889 2118 398 Farmers Joint Stock Elevator Co. Revilla Grant 7 2,000 03/19/1886 2112 449 Farmers Joint Stock Elevator Company Corona Roberts 5 2,000 08/16/1887 2116 100 Farmers Joint Stock Elevator Company Milbank Grant 7 3,000 08/27/1888 2117 556 Farmers Livestock Association Plankinton Aurora 5 08/03/1889 2119 330 Farmers Merchants Bank Aberdeen Brown 5 25,000 01/02/1882 2108 26 Farmers Mutual Alliance Aid Association Elkton Brookings 7 04/30/1885 2111 456 Farmers Mutual Benefit Fargo Cass 3 11/27/1883 2109 318 Farmers Mutual Cooperative Association Ardoch Walsh 9 10,000 03/30/1886 2112 481 Farmers Mutual Fire and Lightening Insurance Company of Hanson County Alexandria Hanson 5 08/16/1889 2119 341 Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. Groton Brown 7 03/19/1885 2111 328 Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. Canton Lincoln 9 50,000 03/13/1883 2108 166

Page 33 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Farmer's Mutual Livestock Protective Association Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 30,000 10/18/1887 2116 247 Farmer's Mutual Protective Association Plankinton Aurora 5 11/19/1884 2111 73 Farmers Produce and Fuel Company of Gary Gary Deuel 5 1,000 04/07/1887 2115 231 Farmers Produce Company Wakonda Clay 7 10,000 09/27/1889 2119 470 Farmers Protection and Guarantee Corporation Woonsocket Sanborn 7 04/17/1886 2113 12 Farmers Protective & Cooperative Union Spearfish Lawrence 7 100,000 03/20/1884 2110 99 Farmers Protective Association of Bridgewater Bridgewater McCook 9 5,000 03/26/1886 2112 470 Farmers Purchasing & Shipping Association Mitchell Davison 7 10,000 03/19/1886 2112 451 Farmers Purchasing and Shipping Association of White Lake Dakota White Lake Aurora 5 5,000 08/20/1888 2117 529 Farmer's Shipping and Purchasing Association of Woonsocket Woonsocket Sanborn 5 5,000 09/12/1887 2116 160 Farmers Shipping and Purchasing Company Artesian Sanborn 5 5,000 07/26/1888 2117 444 Farmers Shipping Association of Brookings Brookings Brookings 9 5,000 06/17/1889 2119 195 Farmers Shipping Association of DeSmet DeSmet Kingsbury 5 1,200 10/09/1884 2111 20 Farmers Shipping Association of DeSmet (Increase in Stock) DeSmet Kingsbury 5 10,000 07/09/1887 2115 573 Farmers Shipping Association of Hetland Hetland Kingsbury 9 10,000 02/18/1889 2118 373 Farmers Shipping Association of Lake Preston Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 1,200 10/21/1884 2111 30 Farmer's Shipping Association of Volga Volga Brookings 7 2,500 12/11/1885 2112 284 Farmers Shipping Company of Esmond Dakota Esmond Kingsbury 9 8,000 03/19/1888 2116 573 Farmers Supply Company Britton Marshall 5 40,000 03/15/1888 2116 566 Farmers Trust Company Fargo Cass 3-7 35,000 10/15/1887 2116 239 Farmer's Trust Company Fargo Cass 3 35,000 10/01/1885 2112 207 Farmers Union Elevator Co. Park River Walsh 11 10,000 02/15/1886 2112 378 Farmers Union Elevator Company (appointment of agent) Bathgate Pembina 03/08/1889 2118 436 Farmers Warehouse Association of Abercrombie Abercrombie Richland 3 5,000 08/08/1889 2119 355 Farmers Warehouse Association of Dwight Dwight Richland 5 5,000 07/09/1889 2119 259 Farmers Warehouse Company Letcher Sanborn 7 10,000 08/10/1886 2114 266 Farmer's Warehouse Company Claremont Brown 9 2,000 10/15/1887 2116 238 Farmers Warehouse of Bartlett Bartlett Ramsey 7 1,200 10/20/1884 2111 28 Farming and Stock Company of Lakota, Nelson County, Dakota Territory Lakota Nelson 3 25,000 06/06/1888 2117 240 Farmingdale Land and Livestock Company Pennington 7 40,000 04/03/1888 2117 57 Faulk County Abstract Company Faulkton Faulk 4 10,000 02/23/1889 2118 401 Faulk County Agricultural Association Faulkton Faulk 7 10,000 07/03/1885 2112 84 Faulkton Building and Loan Association Faulkton Faulk 14 500,000 05/14/1887 2115 342 Faulkton Creamery of Faulkton Faulkton Faulk 11 5,000 05/10/1888 2117 166

Page 34 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Fearless Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/04/1886 2113 130 Fidelity Loan Company Leola McPherson 5 25,000 05/17/1889 2119 96 Fifth Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Ipswich Edmunds 4 07/09/1884 2110 341 Finis Apostolic Lutheran Church of Lara Township Lara (twp) Brown 9 03/28/1887 2115 117 Fire Steel Congregational Church Badger (twp) Davison 3-9 07/16/1886 2114 171 Fire Steele Valley Dairy Association Pleasant Valley Aurora 7 400 04/23/1886 2113 52 First Apostolic Lutheran Church of Norden Norden Hamlin 9 06/15/1885 2112 6 First Avon Methodist Episcopal Church Avon Bon Homme Not Listed 05/20/1887 2115 265 First Bank of Drayton Drayton Pembina 4 50,000 08/16/1887 2116 97 First Baptist Association of Parkston Parkston Hutchinson 3 05/20/1887 2115 360 First Baptist Church Ipswich Edmunds 3 07/26/1884 2110 384 First Baptist Church of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 4 09/24/1879 2104 152 First Baptist Church of Aberdeen Aberdeen Brown 3 06/07/1884 2110 286 First Baptist Church of Afton Afton Sanborn 3 08/01/1885 2112 139 First Baptist Church of Big Stone City Big Stone City Grant 3 04/29/1882 2106 346 First Baptist Church of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 3 05/02/1882 2106 305 First Baptist Church of Bottineau Bottineau Bottineau 3 09/01/1886 2114 311 First Baptist Church of Brookings Brookings Brookings 3 08/12/1881 2105 300 First Baptist Church of Bryant Bryant Hamlin 3 04/16/1888 2117 100 First Baptist Church of Chamberlain Chamberlain Brule 3 04/21/1884 2110 172 First Baptist Church of Columbia Columbia Brown 3 12/26/1883 2109 367 First Baptist Church of DeSmet DeSmet Kingsbury 3 02/12/1884 2109 468 First Baptist Church of Devils Lake City Devils Lake city Ramsey 3 12/01/1883 2109 332 First Baptist Church of Dickinson Dickinson Stark 3 07/10/1883 2109 73 First Baptist Church of Estelline Estelline Hamlin 3 10/08/1883 2109 228 First Baptist Church of Fargo Fargo Cass 3 08/09/1881 2105 288 First Baptist Church of Gettysburg Gettysburg Potter Not Listed 11/05/1887 2116 282 First Baptist Church of Goodwin Goodwin Deuel 6 07/05/1881 2105 253 First Baptist Church of Grafton Grafton Walsh 3 01/29/1884 2109 434 First Baptist Church of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 09/05/1887 2116 147 First Baptist Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 05/19/1881 2105 182 First Baptist Church of Ipswich Ipswich Edmunds 3+ 08/10/1886 2114 230 First Baptist Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 3 06/13/1882 2107 52 First Baptist Church of Kimball Kimball Brule 3 04/21/1884 2110 169

Page 35 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page First Baptist Church of Lisbon Lisbon Ransom 3 08/01/1883 2109 106 First Baptist Church of Ludden Ludden Dickey 3 03/28/1887 2115 204 First Baptist Church of Madison Madison Lake 6 03/08/1884 2110 52 First Baptist Church of Mandan Mandan Morton 3 04/27/1882 2106 302 First Baptist Church of Mapes Mapes Nelson 3 10/03/1883 2109 224 First Baptist Church of Minot Minot Ward Not Listed 04/27/1888 2117 130 First Baptist Church of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 03/29/1882 2106 259 First Baptist Church of Montrose Montrose McCook 3 12/12/1882 2107 339 First Baptist Church of Myron Myron Faulk 3 09/27/1886 2114 363 First Baptist Church of Nordland Nordland Kingsbury 3 12/31/1883 2109 380 First Baptist Church of Oakes Oakes Dickey 3 03/28/1887 2115 205 First Baptist Church of Page Page Cass 3 07/30/1887 2116 49 First Baptist Church of Parker Parker Turner 5 07/29/1880 2104 338 First Baptist Church of Pierpont Dakota Pierpont Day 3 12/11/1888 2118 158 First Baptist Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 04/02/1881 2108 215 First Baptist Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 11/27/1885 2112 260 First Baptist Church of Spencer Spencer McCook 3 09/12/1887 2116 167 First Baptist Church of Steele Steele Kidder 3 09/03/1884 2110 483 First Baptist Church of Tower City Tower City Cass 3 03/20/1882 2106 351 First Baptist Church of Wahpeton Wahpeton Richland 3 11/13/1882 2107 306 First Baptist Church of Watertown Watertown Codington 3 03/26/1881 2105 126 First Baptist Church of White Rock White Rock (tw Roberts 3 11/26/1887 2116 324 First Bohemian Presbyterian Church of Dakota Tabor Bon Homme 3 11/12/1884 2111 57 First Church of Christ in Webster Webster Day `3 03/17/1883 2108 171 First Congregation of Wakonda Wakonda Clay 3 09/06/1886 2114 323 First Congregational Church of Anton Canton Lincoln 3 01/10/1881 2105 59 First Congregational Church of Ashton Ashton Spink 3 07/03/1882 2107 75 First Congregational Church of Buffalo Gap Buffalo Gap Custer 3-11 08/09/1886 2114 238 First Congregational Church of Central City Central City Lawrence 5 09/11/1879 2104 142 First Congregational Church of Christ in Petersburg Petersburg nelson 3 09/18/1888 2118 25 First Congregational Church of Cooperstown Cooperstown Griggs 5 05/07/1885 2111 477 First Congregational Church of Custer City Custer City Custer 3 03/09/1882 2106 223 First Congregational Church of DeSmet DeSmet Kingsbury 3 11/10/1880 2105 13 First Congregational Church of Dickinson Dickinson Stark 3-9 08/31/1887 2116 142

Page 36 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page First Congregational Church of Egan Egan Moody 3 01/18/1882 2106 131 First Congregational Church of Forman Forman Sargent 3-9 01/14/1889 2118 257 First Congregational Church of Grandview Grandview Douglas 3 12/15/1883 2109 345 First Congregational Church of Highmore Highmore Hyde 3 11/30/1885 2112 255 First Congregational Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 09/03/1884 2110 487 First Congregational Church of Michigan City Michigan City Kelso 3 09/28/1883 2109 214 First Congregational Church of New Rockford New Rockford Eddy 3 07/20/1885 2112 82 First Congregational Church of Pierre Pierre Hughes 3 09/17/1881 2105 386 First Congregational Church of Plankinton Plankinton Aurora 3 07/14/1882 2107 84 First Congregational Church of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 3 01/18/1881 2106 52 First Congregational Church of Rome Rome Davison 3 05/12/1882 2106 325 First Congregational Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 03/06/1879 2104 75 First Congregational Church of Spearfish Spearfish Lawrence 3 02/16/1882 2106 184 First Congregational Church of Sturgis Sturgis Lawrence ?? 02/27/1885 2111 267 First Congregational Church of Turton Turton Spink 3-9 10/30/1889 2119 554 First Congregational Church of Vermillion Vermillion Clay 3 11/29/1881 2106 66 First Congregational Church of Volga Volga Brookings 3 07/20/1881 2105 266 First Congregational Church of Wahpeton Wahpeton Richland 3 06/22/1881 2105 236 First Congregational Church Society of Abercrombie Fort Abercromb Richland 3 04/10/1886 2112 527 First Congregational Society of Deadwood Deadwood Lawrence 5 12/02/1878 2104 34 First Day Daue Baptist Church Danville Turner 3 03/26/1883 2108 195 First Evangelical Church of Marshall county Victor (twp) Marshall Not Listed 09/28/1887 2116 202 First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Fort Abercrombie Fort Abercromb Richland 3 12/13/1886 2114 499 First Evangelical Scandinavian Society of Oakes Oakes Dickey 3-11 10/18/1888 2118 67 First Free Methodist Church of Mt. Vernon Mt. Vernon Davison 5 11/29/1886 2114 473 First Free Methodist Church of Olivet Olivet Hutchinson 3 08/10/1881 2105 290 First German Baptist Church of Madison Madison Lake 3 12/09/1885 2112 280 First German Methodist Episcopal Church Wakonda Clay 5 03/01/1886 2112 403 First German Presbyterian Church of Dakota Turner 3 03/22/1880 2104 245 First German Society of Faulk County Dakota Territory methodist Episcopal Chu Rockham Faulk Not Listed 11/18/1887 2116 311 First German Society of Jerauld County Wessington Spri Jerauld Not Listed 08/05/1889 2119 350 First German Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Crandon Crandon Spink Not Listed 10/29/1886 2114 411 First German Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Redfield Redfield Spink Not Listed 05/31/1887 2115 420 First Holland Christelyke Reformed Kerk New Holland Douglas 6 03/31/1884 2110 110

Page 37 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page First Holland Christian Reformed Church of Freisland Twp. 98 Charles Mix 4 10/21/1885 2112 234 First Holland Christlyke Gereformeerde Hert Harrison Douglas ?? 03/02/1885 2111 284 First Holland Presbyterian Church of Havana Havana (twp) Deuel Not Listed 11/18/1887 2116 310 First M. E. Church at Kidder, Lincoln County Kidder Lincoln 5 08/28/1878 2104 8 First M.E. Church of Dakota City Dakota City Hutchinson 05/08/1886 2113 183 First Meade Hydraulic Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 09/18/1879 2104 145 First Methodist Episcopal Church of White White Brookings 4 04/20/1885 2111 411 First Methodist Church DeSmet Kingsbury 3 07/07/1884 2110 343 First Methodist Church at Bathgate Bathgate Pembina 3 10/30/1884 2111 37 First Methodist Church of Bridgewater Bridgewater McCook 3 01/21/1882 2106 137 First Methodist Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 05/31/1884 2110 261 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Blunt Blunt Hughes 3 09/15/1883 2109 191 First Methodist Episcopal Church Andover Day 3 04/10/1885 2111 361 First Methodist Episcopal Church Bristol Day 3-9 05/16/1887 2115 347 First Methodist Episcopal Church St. Lawrence Hand 4 10/22/1884 2111 35 First Methodist Episcopal Church Henry Codington 3 04/23/1884 2110 182 First Methodist Episcopal Church Madison Lake 3 12/31/1883 2109 383 First Methodist Episcopal Church Clear Lake Deuel 3 05/08/1885 2111 502 First Methodist Episcopal Church Richland Miner 3 04/28/1885 2111 452 First Methodist Episcopal Church Nordland Kingsbury 06/06/1884 2110 280 First Methodist Episcopal Church Aurora Brookings 4 02/16/1884 2110 1 First Methodist Episcopal Church Parkston Hutchinson Not Listed 07/29/1887 2115 547 First Methodist Episcopal Church Scotland Bon Homme 4 02/02/1884 2110 119 First Methodist Episcopal Church Beresford Union 5 04/07/1884 2110 126 First Methodist Episcopal Church Carthage Miner 3 05/02/1884 2110 192 First Methodist Episcopal Church Gettysburg Potter Not listed 05/28/1887 2115 406 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 3 07/18/1883 2109 92 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Alpena Alpena Jerauld 5 06/21/1884 2110 308 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Armour Dakota Armour Douglas Not Listed 07/09/1887 2115 551 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Ashton Ashton Spink 3 06/19/1882 2107 59 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Bath Bath Brown 3 07/09/1885 2112 53 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Big Stone City Big Stone City Grant 3 06/08/1882 2107 31 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Britton Britton Marshall Not Listed 04/24/1888 2117 37 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Buffalo Gap, Custer County, Dakota Buffalo Gap Custer 4 06/21/1886 2114 110

Page 38 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page First Methodist Episcopal Church of Canton Canton Lincoln 6 04/27/1880 2104 267 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Casselton Casselton Cass 3 05/04/1881 2105 159 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Church's Ferry Church's Ferry Ramsey Not Listed 09/30/1886 2114 366 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbia Columbia Brown 5 09/13/1886 2114 342 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Cooperstown Cooperstown Griggs Not Listed 11/18/1887 2116 308 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Crandon Crandon Spink 3 01/02/1882 2108 28 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Crook City Crook City Lawrence 3 08/25/1881 2105 336 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Crystal Crystal Pembina 3 06/26/1884 2110 319 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Custer City Custer City Custer 5 04/29/1882 2106 298 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Deadwood Deadwood Lawrence 3 12/29/1880 2105 49 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 07/29/1880 2104 334 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Doland Doland Spink 4 09/29/1883 2109 217 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Edinburgh Edinburgh Walsh Not Listed 09/15/1888 2117 507 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Egan Egan Moody 3 06/07/1881 2105 221 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Ellendale Ellendale Dickey 3 08/27/1883 2109 157 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Elliott Elliott Ransom Not Listed 11/22/1886 2114 452 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Emerado Emerado Grand forks Per Discipli 08/21/1889 2119 371 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Esmond Esmond Kingsbury 3 08/26/1885 2112 171 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Fargo Fargo Cass 5 02/01/1882 2106 157 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Fargo Fargo Cass 02/18/1882 2106 179 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Faulkton Faulkton Faulk 9 05/28/1888 2117 204 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Flandreau Flandreau Moody 3 07/29/1880 2104 331 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Gary Gary Deuel 3 06/14/1882 2107 50 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Gill, County of Cass, Territory of Dakota Gill Cass Not Listed 03/08/1889 2118 413 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Gladstone Gladstone Stark 3 02/05/1885 2111 216 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Grafton Grafton Walsh 3 06/11/1883 2109 22 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 4 04/26/1879 2104 66 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Grand Rapids Grand Rapids Lamoure 6 03/29/1886 2112 474 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Grandin Grandin Cass Not Listed 01/19/1887 2114 575 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Grant Twp. Grant Twp. McCook 4 06/05/1885 2111 563 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Hartford Hartford Minnehaha 3 09/17/1885 2112 274 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Hitchcock Hitchcock Beadle 3 05/26/1883 2108 326 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Hunter, County of Cass Hunter Cass Not Listed 07/28/1887 2116 36 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 09/03/1881 2105 369

Page 39 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page First Methodist Episcopal Church of Iroquois Iroquois Kingsbury 3 08/26/1885 2112 170 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lake Preston Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 08/27/1889 2119 404 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lamoure Lamoure Lamoure 4 03/29/1886 2112 473 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Larimore Larimore Grand Forks Not Listed 05/09/1889 2118 512 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lead City Lead City Lawrence 3 02/03/1881 2105 85 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lennox Lennox Lincoln 3 07/19/1880 2104 324 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lisbon Lisbon Ransom 3 08/08/1882 2107 162 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Marion Junction of Dakota Marion Junction Turner Not Listed 07/28/1888 2117 416 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Milbank Milbank Grant 3 02/11/1882 2106 175 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Minnewaukan County Minnewaukan Benson 05/11/1886 2113 195 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Minto Minto Walsh 3 03/21/1884 2110 93 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 04/28/1884 2110 186 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 03/06/1883 2108 150 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Mt. Vernon Mt. Vernon Davison 3 03/19/1883 2108 177 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Neche Neche Pembina Not Listed 04/19/1887 2115 122 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Oelrichs Oelrichs Fall River 3-11 04/21/1888 2117 111 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Park River Park River Walsh 3 11/17/1884 2111 67 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Parker Parker Turner 3 07/30/1881 2105 281 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Pembina Pembina Pembina 3 04/20/1881 2105 141 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Pierre Pierre Hughes 3 05/24/1881 2105 211 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Plankinton Plankinton Aurora 3 03/19/1883 2108 180 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Portland, County of Traill, Dakota Territory Portland Traill Not Listed 01/19/1889 2118 283 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 6 03/27/1882 2106 257 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Redfield Redfield Spink 3 11/01/1881 2106 40 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Reynolds Reynolds Grand Forks 3 07/13/1883 2109 79 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Roswell Roswell Miner 3 07/03/1885 2112 37 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Sanborn Town of Sanborn County Sanborn Sanborn 3 06/11/1880 2104 320 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Spearfish Spearfish Lawrence 7 08/04/1887 2116 58 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield Springfield Bon Homme 4 04/05/1884 2110 125 First Methodist Episcopal Church of St. Thomas St. Thomas Pembina 3 07/21/1884 2110 366 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Steele Steele Kidder 3 07/27/1883 2109 97 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Sturgis Sturgis Meade 5 12/14/1882 2108 1 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Swan Lake Swan Lake Turner 9 04/25/1881 2105 155 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Thompson County Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 10/04/1884 2111 12

Page 40 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page First Methodist Episcopal Church of Tower City Tower City Cass 3 09/02/1882 2107 196 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Tyndall Tyndall Bon Homme 4 07/29/1885 2112 117 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Vermillion Vermillion Clay 5 06/30/1885 2112 32 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Wahpeton Wahpeton Richland 3 01/21/1885 2111 174 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Watertown Watertown Codington 7 03/09/1880 2104 226 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Wessington Wessington Aurora 3 06/27/1883 2109 50 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Wolsey Wolsey Beadle 03/18/1884 2110 75 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Woonsocket Woonsocket Sanborn 3 02/25/1884 2110 7 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Yankton Yankton Yankton 3 01/30/1882 2106 155 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Yorktown Yorktown Dickey 3 05/04/1886 2113 116 First Methodist Episcopal Ethan, Davison Dakota Ethan Davison Not Listed 04/22/1887 2115 124 First Norwegian Danish Methodist Episcopal Church of Danville Danville Turner 3 05/21/1880 2104 280 First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Volga Brookings 8 03/31/1886 2112 493 First Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church of Hillsboro Hillsboro Traill 3 08/02/1882 2107 133 First Penitarian Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 03/13/1882 2106 241 First Presbyterian Church Bottineau Bottineau 5 04/05/1886 2113 1 First Presbyterian Church of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 3 12/11/1884 2111 109 First Presbyterian Church of Anton Canton Lincoln 3 01/24/1885 2111 194 First Presbyterian Church of Ardoch Ardoch Walsh 5 04/10/1885 2111 373 First Presbyterian Church of Arvilla Arvilla Grand Forks 5 07/30/1885 2112 121 First Presbyterian Church of Big Stone City Big Stone Grant 3-7 05/28/1886 2113 520 First Presbyterian Church of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 5 07/06/1886 2114 146 First Presbyterian Church of Blunt Blunt Hughes 3 12/01/1883 2109 334 First Presbyterian Church of Bottineau Bottineau Bottineau 3 04/05/1886 2112 504 First Presbyterian Church of Boundary Congregation Hyde Park Pembina 3 05/20/1883 2108 319 First Presbyterian Church of Bridgewater Bridgewater McCook 3 03/03/1883 2108 145 First Presbyterian Church of Britton Dakota Territory Britton Marshall 3-11 07/26/1887 2116 23 First Presbyterian Church of Brookings Brookings Brookings 3 08/26/1884 2110 472 First Presbyterian Church of Buffalo Buffalo Cass 5 12/21/1885 2112 306 First Presbyterian Church of Canning Canning Hughes 3 04/20/1885 2111 417 First Presbyterian Church of Castlewood Castlewood Hamlin 3 03/24/1883 2108 192 First Presbyterian Church of Columbia Columbia Brown 3 08/06/1883 2109 116 First Presbyterian Church of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 09/13/1880 2104 370 First Presbyterian Church of Diana Diana Sanborn 3 09/22/1884 2110 520

Page 41 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page First Presbyterian Church of Dickinson Dickinson Stark 3 06/28/1889 2119 226 First Presbyterian Church of Edgeley Edgeley LaMoure Not Listed 07/18/1888 2117 427 First Presbyterian Church of Elkmount Elkmount (twp) Grand Forks 3-11 06/18/1886 2114 160 First Presbyterian Church of Ellendale Ellendale Dickey 3 07/13/1883 2109 84 First Presbyterian Church of Estelline Estelline Hamlin 3-11 02/23/1887 2115 73 First Presbyterian Church of Fredrick Frederick Brown 3 08/17/1883 2109 136 First Presbyterian Church of Gary Gary Deuel 3 10/08/1883 2109 232 First Presbyterian Church of Grafton Grafton Walsh 3 10/18/1882 2107 265 First Presbyterian Church of Groton Groton Brown 3 03/22/1883 2108 186 First Presbyterian Church of Hot Springs Hot Springs Fall River 3-11 10/04/1889 2119 486 First Presbyterian Church of Huffton, Dakota Huffton Brown 3 03/10/1888 2116 535 First Presbyterian Church of Hunter Hunter Cass 5 04/14/1887 2115 120 First Presbyterian Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 6 08/16/1880 2104 356 First Presbyterian Church of Kensington Kensington Walsh 3 08/13/1884 2110 448 First Presbyterian Church of Keystone Keystone Dickey 3 09/06/1883 2109 179 First Presbyterian Church of LaFoon LaFoon Faulk 3 06/26/1885 2112 230 First Presbyterian Church of LaMoure LaMoure LaMoure 3 10/25/1883 2109 262 First Presbyterian Church of Le Beau Le Beau Walworth 3 10/08/1883 2109 234 First Presbyterian Church of Lisbon Lisbon Ransom 3 05/05/1884 2110 200 First Presbyterian Church of Mandan Mandan Morton 5 09/27/1881 2105 391 First Presbyterian Church of Mapleton Mapleton Cass 3 09/18/1882 2107 218 First Presbyterian Church of Mekinock Grand Forks 5 03/26/1884 2110 102 First Presbyterian Church of Miner Miner Miner 3-11 02/28/1887 2115 96 First Presbyterian Church of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 11/05/1880 2105 9 First Presbyterian Church of Parker Parker Turner 3 05/07/1880 2104 274 First Presbyterian Church of Pembina Pembina Pembina 5 04/29/1880 2104 272 First Presbyterian Church of Rapid city Rapid City Pennington 3-11 02/25/1887 2115 90 First Presbyterian Church of Roscoe, Dakota Territory Roscoe Edmunds 3-11 11/13/1886 2114 435 First Presbyterian Church of Sheldon Sheldon Ransom 5 05/20/1886 2113 418 First Presbyterian Church of Steele Steele Kidder 3 04/16/1883 2108 243 First Presbyterian Church of Sturgis Sturgis Lawrence 3-11 05/24/1889 2119 126 First Presbyterian Church of Tower City Tower City Cass 5 06/18/1881 2105 242 First Presbyterian Church of Union County Virginia (twp) Union 5 08/27/1889 2119 408 First Presbyterian Church of Wentworth Wentworth Lake 3-11 04/12/1887 2115 245

Page 42 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page First Presbyterian Church of Wessington Wessington Beadle 3-11 06/25/1886 2114 127 First Presbyterian Church of Whitewood Whitewood Lawrence 3-11 12/27/1888 2118 228 First Presbyterian Church of Wilmot Wilmot Roberts 3-7 06/25/1886 2114 123 First Presbyterian Church Park River Park River Walsh 3 01/14/1885 2111 156 First Presbyterian of Raymond Raymond Clark 3-11 04/23/1886 2113 54 First Presbyterian Society of St. Lawrence St. Lawrence Hand 3 06/30/1882 2107 68 First Presbyterian Society of Aberdeen Aberdeen Brown 3 04/19/1882 2106 282 First Presbyterian Society of Canistota Canistota McCook 3 07/12/1884 2110 352 First Presbyterian Society of Casselton Casselton Cass 3 01/08/1880 2105 53 First Presbyterian Society of Forest River Forest River Grand Forks 3 01/26/1879 2104 180 First Presbyterian Society of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 07/15/1879 2104 112 First Presbyterian Society of Hitchcock Hitchcock Beadle 3 11/07/1882 2107 300 First Presbyterian Society of Huron Huron Beadle 3 07/05/1881 2105 256 First Presbyterian Society of Leola Dakota Territory Leola McPherson 3-11 07/02/1887 2115 559 First Presbyterian Society of Manchester Manchester Kingsbury 3-11 10/11/1886 2114 379 First Presbyterian Society of Mellette Mellette Spink 3 06/09/1883 2109 9 First Presbyterian Society of Miller Miller Hand 3 08/04/1882 2107 152 First Presbyterian Society of Oakes County of Dickey, Territory of Dakota Oakes Dickey 3 01/03/1888 2116 384 First Presbyterian Society of Pierpont Pierpont Day 3-11 01/29/1889 2118 331 First Presbyterian Society of Pierre Pierre Hughes 3 04/28/1883 2108 273 First Presbyterian Society of Rondell Rondell Brown 3-11 10/17/1888 2118 62 First Presbyterian Society of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 08/04/1884 2110 420 First Presbyterian Society of Turtle River Turtle River Grand Forks 3 03/27/1880 2104 252 First Presbyterian Society of Warner Warner Brown 3 02/17/1883 2108 109 First Presbyterian Society of Wheatland Wheatland Cass 3 10/13/1881 2106 12 First Presbyterian Society of Woonsocket Woonsocket Sanborn 3 04/15/1884 2110 139 First Presbyterian Society of Woonsocket (See Page 139) Woonsocket Sanborn 3 04/15/1884 2110 189 First Presbytery Society of Northville Northville Spink 3 06/09/1883 2109 5 First Protestant Reformed Church of Douglas County Harrison Douglas 7 03/15/1884 2110 78 First Reformed (Dutch) Church of Harrison Harrison Douglas Per Discipli 09/26/1889 2119 463 First Reformed Church in Charles Mix County Castalia Charles Mix Not Listed 04/09/1887 2115 126 First Reformed Church of Grand View Grand View Douglas Not Listed 02/10/1887 2115 48 First Reformed Dutch Church of Dakota Territory Turner 3 08/30/1880 2104 365 First Regular Baptist Church of Armour Armour Douglas Not Listed 10/20/1887 2116 256

Page 43 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page First Regular Baptist Church of Canton Canton Lincoln 5 07/13/1885 2112 71 First Regular Baptist Church of Centerville Centerville Turner 3 04/21/1884 2110 166 First Regular Baptist Church of Elk Point Union co. Elk Point Union 5 01/13/1880 2104 190 First Regular Baptist Church of Elkton Elkton Brookings 3 08/29/1885 2112 172 First Regular Baptist Church of Hurley Hurley Turner 3 07/01/1883 2109 103 First Scandinavian Baptist Church of Kingsbury County Spring Lake Kingsbury 3 05/07/1885 2111 481 First Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Congregational Society Watertown Codington 5 12/22/1883 2109 365 First Seventh Day Adventist Church Bridgewater McCook 3 06/12/1885 2112 4 First Seventh Day Adventist Church of Madison Madison Lake 3 04/28/1884 2110 183 First Seventh Day Adventist Church of Vilas Vilas Miner 3 02/23/1886 2112 391 First Skandinavian Baptist Church of Fargo, Dakota Territory Fargo Cass 3 02/26/1888 2116 462 First Southern Trinity Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Fertile Walsh 3-9 07/14/1886 2114 168 First Swedish Baptist Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 03/20/1885 2111 334 First Swedish Christian Congregation of Brooklyn Township Brooklyn Twp. Lincoln 4 05/25/1882 2107 8 First Tum Consolidated Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 1,250,000 04/20/1887 2115 273 First United Bretheran Church of Kilborn Kilborn (twp) Grant Not Listed 06/13/1889 2119 181 First Universalist Parish of Yankton Dakota Yankton Yankton 5 05/05/1879 2104 72 First Welsh Calvanistic Methodist Church of Marshall County Spain Marshall 5 06/29/1889 2119 228 First Wesleyan Methodist Society of Aberdeen Brown County Aberdeen Brown 3-5 07/31/1888 2117 458 Flandreau Building Association Flandreau Moody 5 1,000 04/25/1881 2105 139 Flandreau Creamery Company Flandreau Moody 8 5,000 03/14/1888 2116 560 Flandreau Library Association Flandreau Moody 7 03/14/1883 2108 168 Florence Gold and Silver Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 1,500,000 05/17/1886 2113 348 Forest City & Watertown Railroad Forest City Potter 11 800,000 04/07/1886 2112 510 Forest City and Sioux City Railroad Company Forest City Potter 7 5,000,000 04/16/1889 2118 549 Forest City and Southeastern Railroad Company Forest City Potter 9 4,000,000 03/23/1888 2117 13 Forest City and Watertown Railroad Company at Forest City Forest City Potter 12/01/1887 2116 329 Forest City Land and Improvement Company Forest City Potter 7 300,000 04/20/1889 2119 29 Forest City Milling Company Forest City Potter 7 50,000 09/22/1887 2116 191 Forest Hill Cemetery Association Canton Lincoln 4 04/20/1883 2108 254 Forest Hills Church of Virginia Township, Union County, Territory of Dakota Virginia (twp) Union 5 12/19/1888 2118 233 Forest River Pressed Brick Co. Walsh 3 20,000 08/11/1882 2107 171 Forest Rivers Bank Minto Walsh 5 30,000 12/28/1882 2108 21 Fort Buford Steele & Southeastern Railway Co. Steele Kidder 5 300,000 12/01/1883 2109 328

Page 44 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Fort Meade Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 8 2,500,000 09/08/1881 2105 375 Foster County Milling Company Barton Foster 7 10,000 05/23/1888 2117 196 Foster Creek Mamuluke & Rosebud Mining Company Hayward City Custer 4 20,000 03/20/1879 2104 77 Foster Methodist Episcopal Church of Mayville Mayville Traill Not Listed 04/20/1889 2118 529 Fountain Cemetery Association Aurora twp. Brookings 5 03/08/1884 2110 36 Fountain City Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 07/03/1886 2114 139 Fountain Lake Improvement Company Aberdeen Brown 5 25,000 05/02/1889 2119 68 Fountain Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 550 Fountain Townsite and Land Company Fountain Brookings 5 50,000 05/10/1879 2104 84 Frankfort & East Valley Railroad Company Frankfort Spink 6 1,000,000 01/04/1884 2109 391 Frankfort Building and Loan Corporation Frankfort Spink 9 200,000 04/16/1886 2113 9 Frankfort Methodist Episcopal Church Frankfort Spink Not Listed 01/14/1889 2118 277 Franklin Livestock Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 03/21/1888 2117 7 Franklin Silver & Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 9 2,500,000 08/18/1881 2105 310 Frederick Board of Trade Frederick Brown 7 10,000 10/21/1884 2111 32 Frederick Farmers Alliance Frederick Brown 7 5,000 03/30/1888 2117 33 Frederick Methodist Episcopal Church Frederick Brown 5 04/20/1885 2111 426 Frederick Mill Co. (Increase In Capitol Stock) Frederick Brown 20,000 12/14/1885 2112 290 Frederick Mill Company Frederick Brown 7 12,000 10/05/1885 2112 209 Free Evangelic Lutheran Congregational Association Wolf Creek (tw Hutchinson 3 01/26/1889 2118 321 Free Evangelical Lutheran Church of Petersburg Petersburg Bon Homme 3-9 07/19/1886 2114 180 Free Methodist Church of Providence Providence Hutchinson 3 01/11/1886 2112 343 Free Press Company Pierre Hughes 5 5,000 05/28/1888 2117 208 Free Swedish Lutheran Church Huron Beadle 6 09/21/1887 2116 185 Freeman Thayer Post Number 59 Watertown Codington 3 04/20/1886 2113 44 French Pilot Association Watertown Codington 5 2,000 03/13/1885 2111 301 Friend In Need Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 01/13/1879 2104 42 Friesland Livestock Company Aberdeen Brown 3 100,000 08/16/1888 2117 517 Ft. Thomas Improvement Company Ft. Thomas Pembina 5 30,000 03/24/1883 2108 189 G. A. R. Building Association of Sturgis Sturgis Meade 9 10,000 06/08/1889 2119 161 Galena Exchange Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/04/1886 2113 120 Galena Smelting and Reduction Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 05/21/1887 2115 367 Galena Smelting Company Galena Lawrence 5 50,000 05/07/1887 2115 332 Galena Treasure Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 08/02/1886 2114 235

Page 45 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Garden City Methodist Episcopal Church Garden City Clark Not Listed 07/28/1888 2117 418 Garden City Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/19/1886 2114 93 Gary Mill Company Gary Deuel 5 2,000 12/27/1880 2105 43 Gate City Mill Co. Rapid City Pennington 3 60,000 01/04/1886 2112 337 Gate City Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 7 1,000,000 12/03/1887 2116 342 General Crook Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/04/1886 2113 126 General Dawson Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 398 General Merritt Gold & Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 05/30/1879 2104 100 General Sturgis Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 10 1,000,000 05/19/1886 2113 392 Geneva Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/14/1886 2114 65 George Hearst Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 407 German American Loan and Investment Company of Sioux Falls (acceptance of Sioux Falls Minnehaha 01/09/1888 2116 390 German American Loan and Trust Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 500,000 09/26/1889 2119 466 German Baptist Church of Eureka Eureka McPherson 3-9 09/22/1888 2118 29 German Baptist Church of Plum Creek Near Bridgewat McCook 3 01/19/1886 2112 359 German Close Communion Baptist Church of Emanuel Creek Emanuel Creek Bon Homme 3 12/28/1886 2114 539 German Congregational Church of Friedeusfield Hutchinson 3-9 05/27/1889 2119 12 German Congregational Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 12/08/1886 2114 487 German Congregational church of Parkston Parkston Hutchinson 3-9 10/27/1888 2118 91 German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Friedeusthal Dakota Friedeusthal Bon Homme 3 05/31/1887 2115 416 German Evangelical Lutheran Church Society of Sioux Falls Minnehaha County Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 06/29/1888 2117 311 German Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Church of Lennox Lennox Lincoln 3 08/15/1889 2119 379 German Evangelical Lutheran St. Johns Church Elvira Pembina 3 07/11/1888 2117 292 German Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Congregation Unaltered Augsburg Confe Freeman Hutchinson 3-9 01/26/1889 2118 323 German Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Congregation of Unaltered Augsburg Conf Valley Hutchinson 3-9 07/07/1888 2117 350 German Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Organization of the Unaltered Augsburg Co Henry Brown 3-11 12/09/1886 2114 490 German Evangelical Lutheran Zion Congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg Con Canastota McCook 3-9 08/08/1889 2119 357 German Evangelical St. John's Church Hebron Morton 5 12/18/1885 2112 298 German Evangelical St. Paul's Church St. Thomas Pembina 3 02/24/1888 2116 458 German Free Evangelical Church of Friedenthal Friedenthal Hutchinson 3-9 07/19/1886 2114 185 German Implement Company Eureka McPherson 4 6,000 02/21/1889 2118 397 German Insurance Company Scotland Bon Homme 7 02/07/1883 2108 84 German Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5-9 2,500,000 05/25/1887 2115 380 German Reformed Odessa Church of Township 96 North of Range 57 in Yankto Odessa (twp) Yankton 3-11 01/08/1889 2118 263

Page 46 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page German Society Methodist Episcopal Church of Valley City Valley City Barnes 3 08/02/1882 2107 136 German Society of Minnehaha County of the Methodist Episcopal Congregation Wellington Minnehaha Not Listed 06/13/1889 2119 185 German Verein of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 06/12/1880 2104 310 German-American Loan & Investment Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 60,000 09/14/1885 2112 185 Germantown Presbyterian Church of Dakota German Town Turner 3 09/06/1886 2114 326 Gethsemane Episcopal Parish Fargo Cass 9 04/18/1883 2108 259 Gettysburg Cemetery Association Gettysburg Potter 5 125 10/19/1886 2114 403 Gilby Cemetery Corporation Gilby Grand Forks 3 07/03/1885 2112 40 Giles & Dickinson Cattle Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 50,000 08/16/1884 2110 455 Gladstone Athenaeum Association Gladstone Stark 11 1,000 03/21/1888 2117 3 Gladstone Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 04/20/1886 2113 46 Gladstone Woolen Mill Co. Gladstone Stark 9 100,000 02/19/1886 2112 387 Glen Ullin Cemetery Association Glen Ullin Twp. Morton 5 12/08/1885 2112 244 Glenn Milling and Irrigating Ditch Company Battle River Custer 3 20,000 07/23/1886 2114 200 Glenwood Gold & Silver Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 3 1,500,000 12/11/1884 2111 113 Globe Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 337 Globe Lubricating Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/21/1886 2114 111 Globe Mining and Milling Company Spearfish City Lawrence 5 3,000,000 07/22/1886 2114 194 Globe Tin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 1,000,000 03/17/1884 2110 80 Glyndoor Slate Company Rapid City Pennington 7 500,000 08/10/1886 2114 264 Golconda Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/08/1886 2113 163 Gold Coin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 394 Golden Age Consolidated Gold Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 7 2,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 579 Golden Center Lodge No. 26 Independent Order of Odd Fellows Central City Lawrence 3 01/24/1885 2111 191 Golden Crown Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/08/1886 2113 171 Golden Eagle Consolidated Mining Company Central City Lawrence 3 2,000,000 05/30/1879 2104 98 Golden Eagle Mining and Milling Company Central City Lawrence 4 1,000,000 02/13/1879 2104 55 Golden Reef Mining and Milling Company of Rapid City, Dakota Rapid City Pennington 5-9 200,000 09/12/1887 2116 163 Golden Reward Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 04/27/1887 2115 301 Golden Summit Consolidated Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 10/02/1882 2107 252 Golden Summit Consolidated Gold Mining Co.(Amend business location) 11/27/1883 2109 322 Good Templars Benefit Association of Dakota Dell Rapids Minnehaha 6 08/16/1886 2114 276 Goodenough Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 298 Goodwin Cemetery Association Goodwin Deuel 6 03/30/1886 2112 488

Page 47 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Goose River Investment Co. Mayville Traill 3 100,000 03/24/1886 2112 463 Goose River Investment Company (decrease of capital stock) Mayville Traill 3 30,000 02/26/1889 2118 403 Goose River Telephone Company Mayville Traill 5 2,000 01/18/1887 2114 557 Grace Church Pembina Pembina 08/05/1886 2114 252 Grace Church Hurley Hurley Turner 5 05/09/1884 2110 205 Grace Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 06/13/1883 2109 30 Grace Hawthorne Gold and Silver Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/16/1886 2114 174 Grafton Amusement Company Grafton Walsh 7 10,000 04/01/1885 2111 359 Grafton Brass Band Grafton Walsh 4 08/13/1883 2109 127 Grafton Union League Grafton Walsh 3 05/09/1888 2117 164 Grand Army Building Association Salem McCook 5 10,000 03/29/1886 2112 478 Grand Army Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/08/1886 2113 176 Grand Army Hall Association of Beresford Dakota Territory Beresford Union 5 600 06/14/1889 2119 191 Grand Forks & Missouri Valley Rail Road Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 500,000 08/10/1882 2107 169 Grand Forks and Dakota Southern Railroad Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 3,000,000 01/18/1888 2116 396 Grand Forks Banking Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 50,000 07/18/1882 2107 94 Grand Forks Baseball Association Grand Forks Grand Forks 3-7 1,250 04/01/1887 2115 219 Grand Forks Bridge Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 30,000 07/28/1881 2105 272 Grand Forks Building and Loan Association Grand Forks Grand Forks 10 500,000 12/16/1886 2114 508 Grand Forks Building Savings and Loan association Grand Forks Grand Forks 9 125,000 02/24/1882 2106 192 Grand Forks Cadet Band Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 480 06/30/1886 2114 137 Grand Forks City Street Railway Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 250,000 03/23/1889 2118 466 Grand Forks County Agricultural Society Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 10,000 11/17/1885 2112 246 Grand Forks Creamery Grand Forks Creamery 5 5,000 01/30/1888 2116 420 Grand Forks Electric Light Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 25,000 09/09/1886 2114 337 Grand Forks Fireman's Relief Association Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 12/29/1888 2118 215 Grand Forks Gas and Electric Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 6 200,000 05/11/1889 2119 86 Grand Forks Hotel Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3-7 150,000 07/11/1888 2117 301 Grand Forks Incandescent Light Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 100,000 07/21/1888 2117 433 Grand Forks Land & Improvement Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 150,000 04/05/1883 2108 220 Grand Forks Loan and Land Company of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 3-7 50,000 09/12/1887 2116 165 Grand Forks Lumber Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 200,000 04/04/1884 2110 121 Grand Forks Manufacturing Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 25,000 05/17/1882 2106 343 Grand Forks National Gas and Fuel Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 100,000 09/04/1886 2114 319

Page 48 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Grand Forks Opera House Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3-7 100,000 03/23/1889 2118 467 Grand Forks Opera House Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 6 50,000 07/22/1889 2119 297 Grand Forks Publishing Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 25,000 06/26/1883 2109 48 Grand Forks Roller Mills (reduction of Directors) Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 05/29/1888 2117 210 Grand Forks Rollin Mills Grand forks Grand Forks 7 100,000 06/23/1883 2109 44 Grand Forks Telephone Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 5,000 03/07/1882 2106 219 Grand Forks Telephone Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 05/02/1882 2106 307 Grand Junction Gold Mining Company Custer 6 1,000,000 08/29/1881 2105 347 Grand Lodge of Dakota Knights of Pythias Huron Beadle 3 05/13/1886 2113 260 Grandin Alliance Elevator Company Grandin Cass 9 5,000 07/27/1887 2116 29 Grandkjeins Evangelical Lutherske Menighed Twp. 93 Yankton 3 12/14/1882 2107 345 Granite City Bank Dell Rapids Minnehaha 7 100,000 07/13/1889 2119 275 Granite Mountain Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 01/21/1888 2116 410 Grans Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Norway Clay 3 01/28/1887 2115 20 Grant County Agricultural and Mechanical Association Milbank Grant 7 5,000 06/15/1886 2114 76 Grant County Fuel and Supply Company Milbank Grant 5 1,000 08/30/1887 2116 129 Grashull Agricultural Ditch Company Grashull Lawrence 5 5,000 01/26/1887 2115 18 Graven & Jamestown Rail Road Company Grant 5 1,000,000 06/06/1879 2104 102 Gray Eagle Copper & Smelting Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 12/29/1885 2112 317 Gray Methodist Episcopal Church of Waverly Waverly Codington 3 07/30/1885 2112 123 Great North Western Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 9 2,500,000 05/26/1886 2113 491 Great Western Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 359 Green Macleod Company Warner Brown 3 10,000 10/09/1885 2112 216 Green Mound Cemetery Association of Leola McPherson County Leola McPherson 5 09/15/1887 2116 172 Green Mountain Gold & Silver Mining and Milling Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 09/27/1881 2105 389 Greenwood Cemetery Mandan Morton 5 02/23/1882 2106 190 Greenwood Cemetery Mandan Morton 5 01/04/1883 2108 35 Greenwood Cemetery Association Vilas Miner 5 12/21/1885 2112 304 Greenwood Cemetery Association Brookings Brookings 8 500 06/10/1881 2105 225 Greenwood Cemetery Association Beau Walworth 5 01/12/1884 2109 407 Grey Eagle Copper Mining & Smelting Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/02/1884 2110 401 Griggs County Blooded Stock Association Hannaford Griggs 9 20,000 03/27/1889 2118 483 Groff Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 10/14/1889 2119 505 Groton Building and Loan Association Groton Brown 9 500,000 04/10/1888 2117 82

Page 49 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Groton Linseed Oil Company Groton Brown 9 60,000 04/27/1888 2117 126 Groton Linseed Oil Company (change of amount of directors) Groton Brown 3+ 09/12/1889 2119 435 Groton Methodist Episcopal Church Groton Brown Not Listed 09/16/1887 2116 177 Groton Roller Milling Company Groton Brown 4 25,000 04/23/1887 2115 284 Groton Union Cemetery Association Groton Brown 3 03/24/1886 2112 460 Groton, Frankfort & Milnor Rail Road Co. Brown 8 1,250,000 05/08/1885 2111 489 Grue Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Buxton Traill 5 07/14/1887 2116 3 Guarantee Mortgage Company Aberdeen Brown 5 50,000 02/01/1888 2116 429 Gurley Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/28/1886 2114 296 Gustin Belt Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 14,000 07/28/1882 2107 124 Gustin Miner Consolidated Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 03/18/1886 2112 445 H. Hagerty and Company Aberdeen Brown 5 500,000 07/24/1889 2119 303 H.O.W. Copper Mining & Smelting Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 500,000 04/05/1883 2108 223 Hail Storm Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/08/1886 2113 169 Hamilton Artesian Well and Water Works Company Hamilton Pembina 7 5,000 06/09/1887 2115 453 Hamilton Artesian Well Company (increase of stock) Hamilton Pembina 7 10,000 12/24/1888 2118 220 Hamilton Elevator Company Hamilton Pembina 3 100,000 08/19/1882 2107 184 Hamlin County Agricultural Society Castlewood Hamlin 11 09/26/1883 2109 201 Hamlin County Fair Association Estelline Hamlin 3 100 09/13/1883 2109 189 Hand County Abstract Company Miller Hand 3 5,000 04/01/1889 2118 489 Hand County Agricultural Fair Association Miller Hand 11 2,000 09/22/1885 2112 186 Hand County Elevator Company Miller Hand 5 50,000 07/31/1885 2112 124 Hand County Farmers Alliance Elevator Company Miller Hand 11 10,000 08/20/1888 2117 530 Hans Johnson Mercantile Company Hillsboro Traill 5 25,000 08/28/1889 2119 411 Harlen Creamery Company Harlem Sargent 7 2,500 03/17/1888 2116 570 Harmony Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 472 Harmony Presbyterian Church of Hurley Hurley Turner 3 07/11/1883 2109 75 Harney City Tin Mining Milling and Manufacturing Co. Rapid City Pennington 3 1,500,000 03/18/1886 2112 447 Harney Hotel Rapid City Pennington 7 40,000 03/22/1886 2112 456 Harney Hydraulic Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 9 2,000,000 09/03/1881 2105 362 Harney Hydraulic Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 10/23/1882 2107 276 Harney's Peak Gold Mining & Milling ?Co. Chicago Cook 6 1,000,000 07/05/1881 2105 256 Harrison Hotel Company Harrison Douglas 5 2,000 04/23/1887 2115 283 Harrison Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,000,000 07/16/1888 2117 319

Page 50 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Harrold Cemetery Association Harrold Hughes 3 05/24/1887 2115 371 Hartford Cemetery Association Hartford Minnehaha 3 07/14/1882 2107 87 Hartford Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 12/08/1886 2114 480 Hartford Prospecting & Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 12/13/1881 2106 84 Hartford Tow Company Hartford Minnehaha 5 10,000 01/21/1889 2118 301 Hartshorn Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/06/1886 2112 416 Hatton Farmers Alliance Company Hatton Traill 7 02/29/1888 2116 514 Hawkeye Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/26/1886 2113 487 Hay Creek Coal Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/25/1887 2115 517 Hayward Group Silver Mining Company Hermosa Custer 11 250,000 08/21/1886 2114 164 Hecla Cheese and Creamery Company Hecla Brown 5 1,000 07/13/1888 2117 329 Hennatite Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/08/1886 2113 165 Herald Printing Company Grand Forks Grand forks 7 15,000 02/08/1884 2109 466 Herald Printing Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 25,000 06/04/1889 2119 140 Herkiner Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/28/1886 2114 133 Hermit Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 384 Hermosa hill City and Western Railroad Company Hermosa Custer 5 750,000 03/10/1888 2116 538 Hermosa Hydraulic Company of Dakota Rapid City Pennington 5-9 1,000,000 08/15/1887 2116 90 Hermosa Ice Company Hermosa Custer 3 50,000 08/13/1887 2116 89 Hester A. Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 313 Hicks Trask Hardware Company Aberdeen Brown 3 20,000 05/19/1886 2113 405 Highland Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Brandt Twp. Deuel 5 12/10/1885 2112 292 Highmore Cemetery Association Highmore Hyde 5 04/20/1887 2115 262 Highmore Hotel Company Highmore Hyde 5 1,500 06/21/1887 2115 502 Hill City Miners Union Hill City Pennington 3-9 10/08/1889 2119 496 Hillsboro Cemetery Association Hillsboro Traill 5 08/16/1888 2117 519 Hillsboro Driving Park Association Hillsboro Traill 5 3,000 12/17/1886 2114 510 Hillsboro Farmers Elevator Company Hillsboro Traill 7 6,000 03/28/1887 2115 198 Hillsboro Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Hills Traill 3 02/26/1885 2111 247 Hillsboro Opera House Company Hillsboro Traill 5 10,000 08/16/1888 2117 513 Hillside Cemetery Association Valley City Barnes 7 05/26/1882 2107 14 Hillside Cemetery Association Oberon Benson 3 04/26/1889 2119 46 Historical & Scientific Association of Kingsbury County DeSmet Kingsbury 5 11/28/1884 2111 86 Holland Christian Reform Church of Overysel Egerton Signal T Chas. Mix 4 04/07/1886 2112 512

Page 51 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Holy Cross Catholic Church, Ipswich Dakota Ipswich Edmunds Not Listed 07/05/1887 2115 432 Holy Family Church at Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 02/02/1885 2111 199 Homblende Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 4 2,500,000 12/03/1888 2118 139 Home Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 267 Home Rule Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 9 420,000 05/08/1886 2113 188 Homestake Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/04/1886 2113 138 Homeward Bound Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 242 Hooper Church of the Reformed Church of America Hooper City Emmons 3 08/20/1885 2112 272 Hope Cemetery Association Templeton Jerauld 5 06/08/1885 2111 565 Hope Chapel Alexandria Hanson 3 10/17/1881 2106 21 Hope Reformed Church in Emmons County Dakota Westfield Emmons Not Listed 07/31/1889 2119 281 Horn Silver Mining Co. of Ruby Basin Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 04/15/1886 2112 543 Horseshoe Comet Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 6 1,250,000 08/31/1887 2116 145 Horseshoe Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 08/21/1886 2114 286 Hosanger Norske Evangeliske Lutherske Meuighed of Clark and Day Counties D Highland (twp) Clark 3 12/24/1888 2118 204 Hot Spur Mining Company Ruby Basin Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 200 Houghton Farmers Elevator Company Houghton Brown 9 1,000 10/24/1888 2118 83 Houston Baptist Church of Houston Huston Douglas 3 06/30/1883 2109 56 Howard Norsk Evangelical Lutheresk Minighed Howard Miner 3 02/08/1884 2109 464 Howard Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 233 Howard Union Congregational Church Howard Mines 3 09/27/1882 2107 241 Howell Land Improvement Co. St. Lawrence Hand 9 2,500 02/23/1883 2108 116 HS Fellow Methodist Episcopal Church of Mandan Mandan Morton 3 01/04/1882 2106 106 Hughes /County Agricultural Fair Association Pierre Hughes 5 5,000 07/09/1885 2112 54 Hughes County Abstract Co. Pierre Hughes 3 10,000 04/19/1889 2119 8 Hughes County Bank Blunt Hughes 3 25,000 05/26/1883 2108 322 Humboldt Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/04/1886 2113 134 Hurley Building and Loan Association Hurley Turner 7 2,500 07/08/1889 2119 261 Hurley Cemetery Association Hurley Turner 7 02/10/1885 2111 238 Hurley Cornet Band Hurley Turner 3 06/05/1884 2110 272 Huron Building & Loan Association Huron Beadle 7 1,000,000 02/09/1885 2111 265 Huron Chamberlain and Black Hills Railroad Alpena Beadle 11 1,000,000 08/23/1889 2119 389 Huron City Mill company Huron Beadle 3 30,000 08/02/1884 2110 399 Huron City Railway Company Huron Beadle 3 100,000 07/31/1886 2114 222

Page 52 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Huron Coal and Mining Company Huron Beadle 3 500,000 05/23/1887 2115 369 Huron Co-Operative Supply Company Huron Beadle 7 5,000 06/22/1888 2117 285 Huron Creamery and Cold Storage Company Huron Beadle 5 6,500 02/24/1888 2116 497 Huron Electric Light and Power Company Huron Beadle 3 50,000 10/27/1886 2114 406 Huron Furniture Company Huron Beadle 3-5 15,000 01/21/1888 2116 405 Huron Masonic Hall Building Co. Huron Beadle 5 2,000 08/10/1881 2105 294 Huron Printing and Bindery Company Huron Beadle 5 100,000 04/17/1889 2118 558 Huron Stone Company Huron Beadle 3 30,000 11/20/1880 2105 28 Huron Street Railway Company Huron Beadle 5 50,000 05/26/1883 2108 324 Icelandic Printing Company Pembina Pembina 5 3,000 10/12/1888 2118 53 Illumination Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 01/24/1887 2115 8 Imanuels German Presbyterian Church of Marion Junction Marion Junction Turner 3 06/20/1889 2119 215 Immanuel Church of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Ellendale Dickey 05/04/1886 2113 141 Immanuel Church Society of the Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Associati Avon (twp) Bon Homme 3+ 08/02/1889 2119 316 Imperial Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 304 Inca Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 302 Inca Silver Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 7 1,000,000 10/03/1887 2116 212 Incandescent Lamp Company of Grand Forks Dakota Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 50,000 07/13/1889 2119 279 Independence Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 500,000 04/20/1886 2113 42 Independent Congregational Church & Society of Vermillion Vermillion Clay 3 10/11/1880 2104 392 Independent Order of God Templar Building Association of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 10,000 06/02/1887 2115 436 Index Publishing Company Kimball Brule 5 10,000 06/06/1883 2109 1 Ingersoll Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 343 Ingleside Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 463 Inkster Presbyterian Church Inkster Grand Forks 3 06/19/1885 2112 12 Insurance Company of Dakota Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 02/26/1883 2108 122 Inter Ocean Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/27/1886 2113 75 Inter-Mountain Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 01/19/1889 2118 298 International Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/25/1886 2113 478 Interstate Land Company Pierre Hughes 5 100,000 10/19/1888 2118 74 Iowa and Dakota Railway Company Minnehaha 9 25,520,000 06/28/1887 2115 533 Iowa Sioux Falls & Northern Rail Road Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 5,000,000 10/29/1883 2109 275 Ipswich Creamery Company Ipswich Edmunds 3 3,500 05/21/1888 2117 188 Iron and Battle Creeks Flume and Mining Company Hayward City Custer 4 40,000 11/09/1878 2104 27

Page 53 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Iron City Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 9 200,000 03/25/1881 2105 122 Iron Clad Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/20/1886 2113 413 Iron Creek Flume and Mining Company Hayward City Custer 5 25,000 09/12/1878 2104 21 Iron Creek Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,500,000 03/01/1882 2106 201 Iron Creek Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 1,250,000 02/15/1889 2118 371 Iron Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/20/1881 2105 319 Iron Mountain Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 388 Iroquois Building and Loan Association Iroquois Kingsbury 9 2,000 03/04/1887 2115 106 Iroquois Public and Lodge Hall Association Iroquois Kingsbury 11 5,000 06/24/1887 2115 513 Iroquois Roller Flouring and Feed Mill and Elevator Company Iroquois Kingsbury 7 15,000 08/26/1887 2116 120 Isadora Mining Company (increase in capital stock) Lead City Lawrence 5 250,000 09/14/1888 2118 18 Isadorah Mining Co. Lead Lawrence 5 200,000 03/13/1886 2112 437 Ithaca Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 583 Ivanhoe Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 2,500,000 05/19/1886 2113 354 J. A. Hobis Methodist Episcopal Church of Langdon Langdon Cavalier Not Listed 06/13/1889 2119 201 J. Dawson Thomson Commercial and Livestock Company Dawson Kidder 3 50,000 04/24/1889 2119 40 J. M. LeVake Lumber Company Mitchell Davison 3-5 7,000 11/26/1888 2118 134 J.T. Goodes Furniture Company Aberdeen Brown 3 10,000 02/18/1888 2116 485 Jackson Cemetery Association March Charles Mix 5 07/01/1889 2119 235 James River Elevator Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 100,000 10/27/1883 2109 268 James River Lodge I.O.O.F. No. 32 Huron Beadle 3 08/10/1883 2109 124 James River Lumber Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 25,000 07/14/1883 2109 86 James River Valley Railroad Company Jamestown Stutsman 7 1,000,000 08/02/1883 2109 108 James River Valley Railroad Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 1,000,000 07/29/1882 2107 127 James River Valley Stock Raising Association Jamestown Stutsman 3 50,000 07/11/1883 2109 77 Jamestown & Northern Railroad Co. Stutsman 5 3,000,000 09/17/1881 2105 383 Jamestown Alert Printing Co. Jamestown Stutsman 3 40,0000 07/07/1883 2109 62 Jamestown and Northern Extension Railroad Jamestown Stutsman 4 1,600,000 06/08/1889 2119 154 Jamestown and Northern Extension Railroad Company (change of route directi Jamestown Stutsman 4 10/11/1889 2119 507 Jamestown and Southern Railroad Company Valley City Barnes 5 30,000 06/07/1888 2117 247 Jamestown Building Loan & Savings Association Jamestown Stutsman 11 600,000 05/07/1881 2105 163 Jamestown College Jamestown Stutsman 9 01/04/1884 2109 393 Jamestown Creamery Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 5,000 01/31/1888 2116 425 Jamestown Electric Light Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 35,000 12/01/1887 2116 330

Page 54 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Jamestown Elevator Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 300,000 07/20/1882 2107 99 Jamestown Gas Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 30,000 12/12/1884 2111 111 Jamestown Hotel Jamestown Stutsman 3 150,000 02/12/1883 2108 90 Jamestown Hotel Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 120,000 04/27/1886 2113 71 Jamestown Law Library Jamestown Stutsman 9 20,000 02/21/1888 2116 490 Jamestown Library Association Jamestown Stutsman 11 01/20/1883 2108 74 Jamestown Light & Water Works Co. Jamestown Stutsman 3 500,000 02/07/1883 2108 82 Jamestown Livestock Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 10,000 03/13/1888 2116 556 Jamestown Methodist Episcopal Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 3 07/30/1880 2104 344 Jamestown Street Car Railway Jamestown Stutsman 5 100,000 12/13/1882 2107 342 Jamestown Telegraph & Telephone Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 10,000 06/13/1882 2107 42 Jamestown Turnverein of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 5 25,000 03/25/1881 2105 133 Java Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 8 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 226 Jefferson Carbonate Mining co. Central City Lawrence 5 1,500,000 04/24/1885 2111 440 Jerauld County Agricultural & Industrial Society County Seat Jerauld 5 1,000 08/19/1884 2110 457 Jo Craig Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 322 John Nelson Mercantile Company Wahpeton Richland 3 20,000 03/22/1887 2115 181 John W. Tuthill Lumber Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 50,000 08/18/1885 2112 152 Jones Hotel Company Casselton Cass 8 8,000 10/23/1882 2107 280 Josephine Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 315 Journal Printing Company Plankinton Aurora 9 10,000 01/08/1887 2114 553 Julia M. Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 600,000 06/14/1886 2114 74 Jumbo Mining Company Ruby Basin Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/04/1886 2113 118 Kalamazoo Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/10/1886 2114 41 Kampeska Cemetery Association Kampeska Codington 6 03/13/1886 2112 432 Kampeska Methodist Episcopal Church Kampeska Codington Not Listed 06/27/1887 2115 525 Kampeska Milling Company Kampeska Codington 5 15,000 11/17/1887 2116 302 Kemp Brothers Townsite Co. Watertown Codington 5 4,000 01/23/1884 2109 429 Keokuk Mining and Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,0000 05/13/1886 2113 280 Key West Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 231 Keystone Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 4 2,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 278 Keystone Land & Cattle Co. Rapid City Pennington 5 500,000 12/13/1884 2111 120 Keystone Mortgage Company Aberdeen Brown 11 100,000 03/12/1888 2116 546 Keystone Mortgage Company (increase in capital stock) Aberdeen Brown 11 250,000 08/25/1888 2117 549

Page 55 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Kidder County Agricultural Association Dawson Kidder 5 1,000 07/26/1888 2117 446 Kidder County Republican Publishing Company Steele Kidder 7 3,000 02/11/1889 2118 357 Kilpatrick Post No. 4 of Dakota G.A.R. (conduct election of Trustees Huron Beadle 5 04/10/1885 2111 400 Kilpatrick Post No. 4 of Dakota G.A.R. (conduct election of Trustees Huron Beadle 04/02/1885 2111 399 Kimball Milling Company Kimball Brule 3 15,000 07/06/1886 2114 157 Kimball Mortgage Company Ipswich Edmunds 5 100,000 11/23/1887 2116 316 Kimball Townsite Company Kimball Brule 5 6,000 05/09/1882 2106 318 Kimberly Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/07/1888 2117 245 Kingsbury County Abstract Company DeSmet Kingsbury 5 5,000 02/13/1888 2116 476 Kingsbury County Agricultural Society DeSmet Kingsbury 7 10,000 09/03/1881 2105 366 Kingsbury County Bank DeSmet Kingsbury 8 50,000 12/12/1885 2112 287 Kingsbury County Board of Trade Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 01/04/1882 2106 104 Kingsbury County Farm Mortgage Co. DeSmet Kingsbury 6 100,000 02/02/1886 2112 368 Kissner Hotel Company Fargo Cass 7 40,000 04/19/1887 2115 255 Knobnoster Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 506 Knox Presbyterian Church of Minto Minto Walsh 5 10/11/1886 2114 382 La Grace Land & Improvement Co. La Grace Campbell 3 100,000 02/25/1884 2110 9 La Grace Livestock Company Aberdeen Brown 7 250,000 12/18/1884 2111 131 La Planta Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,500,00 01/19/1886 2112 351 Ladies Library Association Ipswich Edmunds 7 09/20/1886 2114 347 Ladies Library Association of Howard Howard Miner 7 01/07/1886 2112 340 Lake County Agricultural Association Madison Lake 7 07/18/1885 2112 88 Lake County Bank Madison Lake 3 10,000 03/07/1881 2105 103 Lake County Grain Association Madison Lake 9 2,000 11/02/1885 2112 233 Lake County Publishing Company Madison Lake 7 5,000 10/19/1889 2119 539 Lake Kampeska Improvement Company Watertown Codington 10 1,000 08/14/1886 2114 271 Lake Kampeska Park Association Watertown Codington 7 24,000 08/05/1886 2114 258 Lake Madison Steamboat Pleasure and Improvement County Madison Lake 3 50,000 06/11/1887 2115 461 Lake Preston Building and Loan Association Lake Preston Kingsbury 7 50,000 06/14/1887 2115 490 Lake Preston Cemetery Association Baker (twp) Kingsbury 9 06/07/1886 2114 16 Lake Preston Cheese Company Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 500 07/27/1888 2117 452 Lake Preston Cream Company Baker Twp. Kingsbury 5 2,500 12/17/1884 2111 128 Lake Preston Skandinavisk Evangelisk Luthersk Meuighed Whitewood (tw Kingsbury 3 03/28/1887 2115 207 Lake Shore Improvement Company Watertown Codington 5 500,000 04/21/1887 2115 279

Page 56 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Lake Thompson Norsk Evangelical Lutheran Menighed Whitewood Tw Kingsbury 3 06/04/1884 2110 267 Lake Traverse Sanborn & Carrington Railroad Co. ?? ?? 6 4,000,00 12/12/1883 2109 341 Lake Whitewood Norsk Evangelical Lutheran Menighed Whitewood Tw Kingsbury 3 03/20/1885 2111 337 Lakeport Horse and Livestock Company Lakeport Yankton 5 1,600 06/22/1887 2115 509 Lakeside Stock Farm Madison Lake 3 100,000 06/11/1887 2115 457 Lakeview Hotel Co. Devils Lake Ramsey 3 20,000 01/18/1884 2109 423 Lakota Banking and Investment Company Rapid City Pennington 3 50,000 04/21/1888 2117 120 Lakota Creamery Company Lakota Nelson 5 4,000 03/03/1888 2116 518 Lakota Oil and Coal Company Rapid City Pennington 7 600,000 01/19/1889 2118 296 LaMoure County Creamery LaMoure LaMoure 5 5,000 02/19/1888 2116 483 LaMoure Stock Breeders Association LaMoure LaMoure 3 2,500 04/05/1889 2118 498 Lampton Cemetery Corporation Lampton Walsh 3 09/16/1885 2112 183 Lancaster Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 10/02/1880 2104 388 Langford Methodist Episcopal Church Langford Marshall Not Listed 10/22/1888 2118 19 Lawrence County Agricultural & Industrial Association Spearfish Lawrence 11 10,000 06/24/1884 2110 310 Lawrence County Bank Sturgis Lawrence 5 25,000 08/03/1885 2112 150 Le Sueur Elevator Company Le Sueur (twp) Kingsbury 5 10,000 09/14/1888 2118 23 Lead City and Whitewood Toll Road Company Lead City Lawrence 3 1,000 08/31/1878 2104 14 Lead City Bank Lead City Lawrence 3 10,000 01/20/1883 2108 73 Lead City Bank (Acceptance of Amendments) Lead City Lawrence 3 08/23/1887 2116 109 Lead City Bank (increase in stock) Lead City Lawrence 01/07/1888 2116 391 Lead City Gold & Silver Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 5 500,000 03/22/1886 2112 455 Lead City Hose Company Lead City Lawrence 5 20,000 10/16/1880 2104 395 Lead City Hose Company No. 2 Lead City Lawrence 5 06/20/1888 2117 280 Lead City Lodge No. 17, I. O. O. F. Lead City Lawrence 5 50,000 06/29/1887 2115 544 Lead City Miners Building Association Lead City Lawrence 5 07/13/1882 2107 90 Lead City Miners Union Lead City Lawrence 3 02/24/1880 2104 208 Lead City Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,000,000 04/18/1888 2117 107 Leaders Publishing Company DeSmet Kingsbury 5 5,000 01/17/1883 2108 68 Leganger Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Taopi Minnehaha 3 01/25/1887 2115 14 Leganger Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Toronto Deuel Not Listed 07/07/1888 2117 316 Lenham Elevator & Lumber Co (name change) Sanborn Barnes 04/22/1885 2111 435 Lennox Cemetery Association Lennox Lincoln 3 03/09/1882 2106 226 Leuham Elevator & Lumber Company Sanborn Barnes 4 5,000 06/07/1883 2109 3

Page 57 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Leviathan Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/21/1886 2114 104 Lew Wallace Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 10/16/1888 2118 60 Lexington Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 05/13/1886 2113 282 Liberty Centre Methodist Episcopal Church Liberty (twp) Beadle Not Listed 11/14/1887 2116 295 Liberty Farmers Alliance Liberty Brown 5 1,000 05/28/1888 2117 206 Liberty Silver Mining Co. Central City Lawrence 5 1,500,000 01/19/1885 2111 168 Ligia Griseha Badger Lake 5 03/17/1880 2104 235 Lilly Consolidated Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 10,000,000 03/09/1880 2104 224 Lincoln County Agricultural Association Lennox Lincoln 7 07/20/1881 2105 269 Lincoln County Bank Canton Lincoln 5 10,000 06/13/1887 2115 473 Lincoln County Dakota Farmers Alliance Warehouse Company No. 1 Worthing Lincoln 3 4,000 08/08/1889 2119 352 Lincoln Creamery Association Twp. 90 Clay 5 05/08/1885 2111 496 Lisbon Board of Trade Lisbon Ransom 9 02/15/1884 2109 474 Lisbon Brick & Tile Company Lisbon Ransom 3 25,000 05/18/1882 2107 1 Lisbon Building and Loan Association Lisbon Ransom 9 250,000 03/03/1887 2115 132 Lisbon City Band Lisbon Ransom 5 08/13/1889 2119 368 Lisbon Electric Light Company Lisbon Ransom 5 25,000 01/03/1883 2108 31 Lisbon Library Association Lisbon Ramsey 3 01/20/1885 2111 170 Lisbon Republican Company Lisbon Ransom 5 1,300 05/25/1882 2107 12 Lisbon Street Railway Co. Lisbon Ransom 3 10,000 11/07/1882 2107 295 Lisbon Telephone Company Lisbon Ransom 5 25,000 01/03/1883 2108 33 Little Muddy Bridge Company Little Muddy Ra Wallette 3 1,000 06/12/1879 2104 104 Little Pittsburgh Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/30/1886 2113 79 Little Rapid Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 500,000 12/05/1879 2104 182 Lockport Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/04/1886 2113 128 Lodge No. 77 I.O.O.F. Alpena Jerauld 3 09/21/1889 2119 459 Lodi Cemetery Association Lodi Clay 6 03/09/1885 2111 298 Lodi Methodist Episcopal Church Lodi Clay 5 05/11/1885 2111 225 Lodi Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Pleasant Valley Clay 3 12/08/1882 2107 333 Log Cabin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 250,000 03/27/1888 2117 21 Logan Tunnel Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 06/07/1886 2114 9 Lone Rock Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/30/1887 2115 308 Lone Rock Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Moody County Clifton Moody 3 05/03/1882 2106 311 Lone Tree Milling Company Blunt Hughes 6 7,000 08/24/1885 2112 223

Page 58 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Lost Channel Placer and Quartz Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 1,250,000 07/29/1886 2114 213 Louray Gold Company of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 5-9 1,000,000 08/25/1887 2116 115 Lower Level Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/19/1886 2114 91 Lower Rapid Ditch Company Rapid City Pennington 3 15,000 01/10/1881 2105 57 Lucile Gold & Silver Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 7 400,000 03/25/1886 2112 465 Ludden Cemetery Association Ludden Dickey 5 08/12/1889 2119 362 Ludden Methodist Episcopal Church Ludden Dickey Not Listed 06/07/1887 2115 267 Lutheran Church of Lake Madison Lake 3 07/16/1881 2105 263 Lutheran Emanuel Church of Plainview Washington (tw Douglas Not Listed 12/17/1886 2114 514 Lyceum Association of Watertown Watertown Codington 3 10/03/1879 2104 159 Lynchburg Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 546 Madison Bank of Madison Madison Lake 3 50,000 06/30/1884 2110 334 Madison Bank of Madison Lake Madison Lake Lake 3 100,000 02/03/1885 2111 212 Madison Building and Loan Association Madison Lake 7 500,000 02/13/1888 2116 471 Madison Cemetery Association Madison Lake 3 10/25/1883 2109 265 Madison Electric Light Heat and Power Company Madison Lake 3 50,000 02/18/1889 2118 384 Madison Fair and Trotting Association Madison Lake 5 9,000 09/20/1889 2119 454 Madison Lodge No. 20 Independent Order of Odd Fellows Madison Lake 3 3,500 10/19/1882 2107 271 Madison Motor Railway Company Madison Lake 5 30,000 08/05/1889 2119 338 Madison Opera House Company Madison Lake 5 5,000 04/16/1884 2110 149 Madison Telephone Company Madison Lake 5 400 06/11/1887 2115 459 Madje Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 08/02/1886 2114 233 Maggie Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 12/17/1888 2118 213 Magnolia Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 558 Mahan & Baird Cattle Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 100,000 04/18/1884 2110 164 Manchester Farmers Shipping Association Manchester Kingsbury 5 5,000 08/31/1887 2116 135 Mandan Building Association Mandan Morton 7 1,000,000 06/13/1883 2109 27 Mandan Cattle Company Minnesela Lawrence 5 100,000 01/20/1883 2108 71 Mandan Congregational Church Mandan Morton 3 10/01/1881 2105 398 Mandan Creamery Company Mandan Morton 3 5,000 04/05/1888 2117 62 Mandan Roller Mills Company Mandan Morton 6 50,000 06/13/1884 2110 297 Mandan Street Railway Company Mandan Morton 5 50,000 06/13/1884 2110 299 Manitoba Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 03/04/1887 2115 110 Manitoba Pembina and Grand Forks Railroad Co. Pembina Pembina 5 1,000,000 10/20/1882 2107 273

Page 59 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Manufacturers Water Power Company of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 3 5,000 04/06/1889 2118 507 Mapes Townsite Company Mapes Nelson 5 25,000 09/21/1883 2109 196 Maplewood Cemetery Association Holabird Hyde 5 06/01/1885 2112 264 Marion Junction Presbyterian Church Marion Junction Turner 3 08/22/1882 2107 190 Marmaduke Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 01/15/1889 2118 285 Marriage Fund Mutual Benefit Association of Dakota Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 10,000 02/04/1882 2106 163 Marshall County Agricultural Association Britton Marshall 5 05/18/1888 2117 184 Marshall County Cemetery Corporation Britton Marshall 5 02/08/1886 2112 370 Marshall County Shipping Association Burch Marshall 5 2,000 08/13/1887 2116 85 Martin's Valley Stock Company Martin's Valley Custer 4 5,000 05/13/1886 2113 269 Masonic Aid Association Yankton Yankton 11 03/11/1886 2112 430 Masonic Temple Association of City of Fargo Fargo Cass 7 50,000 12/01/1881 2106 70 Masonic Temple Building Association of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 40,000 03/07/1882 2106 221 Maxwell & Parmenter Mill Company Scotland Bon Homme 3 50,000 12/30/1885 2112 324 Mayville Elevator Company Mayville Cook 3 20,000 08/04/1885 2112 145 Mayville Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Mayville Traill 3 03/04/1886 2112 407 Mayville Roller Skating Rink Co. Mayville Traill 7 15,000 09/01/1884 2110 477 McCook Agricultural Society Montrose McCook 7 01/17/1887 2114 569 McDonald Horse Company Pierre Hughes 3 500,000 11/19/1888 2118 120 McDonnell Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/10/1886 2114 39 McKenzie Cattle Company Bismarck Burleigh 6 150,000 10/10/1883 2109 241 McKinney Loan and Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-9 500,000 11/29/1886 2114 470 Medora and Black Hills Railroad Co. Medora Billings 5 10,000,000 05/15/1884 2110 234 Medora Stage & Forwarding Co. Medora Billings 3 30,000 12/08/1884 2111 103 Melhus Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Turner and Li 3 07/06/1889 2119 250 Merchant & Mechanic Bank of Mandan Mandan Morton 5 30,000 03/28/1881 2105 130 Merchants Bank Bryant Hamlin 7 5,000 09/21/1888 2118 27 Merchants Bank Watertown Codington 9 60,000 12/07/1886 2114 482 Merchants Bank Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 100,000 11/23/1888 2118 122 Merchants Exchange Bank Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 20,000 12/17/1887 2116 362 Merchants Protective and Collecting Association Huron Beadle 3 10,000 03/15/1887 2115 158 Merton Cemetery Association Morton Clark 3 08/06/1888 2117 469 Messner Milling & Lumber Co. Belcourt Rolette 3 10,000 08/02/1884 2110 407 Methodist Episcopal Church Sanborn 5 06/25/1886 2114 130

Page 60 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Methodist Episcopal Church of Absaraka Absaraka Cass Not Listed 06/02/1888 2117 218 Methodist Episcopal Church of Hillsboro Hillsboro Traill 3 06/02/1882 2107 26 Methodist Episcopal Church of Ordway Ordway Brown 3 09/12/1882 2107 203 Methodist Episcopal Church of Roscoe Dakota Roscoe Edmunds Not Listed 04/25/1887 2115 160 Methodist Episcopal Church of Spring Lake Spring Lake Hand Not Listed 07/19/1887 2115 494 Methodist Episcopal Church of Tilford Tilford Meade Per Discipli 09/26/1889 2119 465 Methodist Episcopal Church of Valley City Valley City Barnes 3 01/04/1882 2106 110 Michigan Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/19/1886 2113 409 Michigan Townsite & Land Improvement Company Michigan City Nelson 3 15,000 05/16/1883 2108 298 Middle Grove Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Blooming Grand Forks 3 04/10/1885 2111 396 Midland Pacific Railroad Company Minnehaha 8 10,000,000 05/25/1889 2119 116 Mid-Summer Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 286 Mikado Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 333 Milbank Kibby & Tower City Rail Road Co. Fargo Cass 8 200,000 11/21/1881 2106 72 Milbank Building and Loan Association Milbank Grant 9 500,000 05/04/1888 2117 147 Milbank Creamery Company Milbank Grant 5 10,000 04/17/1885 2111 403 Milbank Driving Park Association Milbank Grant 9 5,000 08/26/1886 2114 304 Milbank Egan and Sioux City Railway Company Milbank Grant 7 1,300,000 09/07/1889 2119 418 Milbank Kibby & Tower City Railroad Co. (Transfer of charter) Tower City Grant 13,800 08/06/1883 2109 119 Milbank Library Association Milbank Grant 7 08/02/1882 2107 141 Millard Cemetery Association Millard Faulk 5 04/18/1889 2118 561 Miller and Saint Lawrence Street Railroad Company Saint Lawrence Hand 5 15,000 06/06/1889 2119 171 Miller Mutual Building Association Miller Hand 9 200,000 01/15/1884 2109 410 Miller Mutual Building Association Miller Hand 9 200,000 03/11/1886 2112 427 Milltown Cemetery Milltown Hutchinson 3 05/07/1884 2110 203 Milnon Scandinavian Lutheran Free Church Society Milnor Sargent 3 01/19/1886 2112 353 Milnor Land Company Milnor Sargent 6 25,000 01/11/1884 2109 405 Milton Farmers Co-Operative Association Milton Cavalier 7 5,000 12/27/1888 2118 225 Milwaukee Brewing Co. of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 3 75,000 02/07/1885 2111 232 Milwaukee Junction Town Lot Company Milwaukee Junc Miner 5 03/21/1882 2106 253 Milwaukee Pressed Brick Co. Mitchell Davison 5 5,000 06/29/1882 2107 65 Milwaukee Sioux Falls and Red River Railroad Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 13 100,000 04/08/1879 2104 64 Miner County Agricultural & Industrial Association Howard Miner 25 07/31/1885 2112 132 Miner County Alliance Shippers Association Vilas Miner 9 2,000 09/12/1887 2116 161

Page 61 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Miner County Stockman and Driving Park Association Howard Miner 5 2,000 06/08/1887 2115 442 Mineral Hill Gold and Silver Company Deadwood Lawrence 6 1,250,000 05/06/1886 2113 150 Mineral Hill Gold Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 9 1,000,000 06/10/1886 2114 35 Mineral Hill Mill and Mining Company Rockerville Pennington 3 500,000 09/11/1878 2104 19 Minerva Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,000,000 11/17/1883 2109 307 Mines Townsite Company Mines Mines 3 6,000 09/21/1882 2107 234 Minna Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/06/1886 2113 156 Minneapolis St. Paul & Saulk Ste. Marie Railway Company of Minnesota, Wisco Minneapolis Hennepin 13 21,000,000 06/12/1888 2117 355 Minnehaha Canning Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-7 30,000 04/13/1889 2118 536 Minnehaha County Title Abstract and Guaranty Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 07/27/1889 2119 308 Minnehaha Trust Company of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 50,000 04/16/1883 2108 233 Minnekahta Bank Hot Springs Fall River 3 25,000 06/11/1888 2117 254 Minnesela Flour Milling Co. Minnesela Lawrence 5 20,000 05/25/1881 2105 201 Minnesela Town Lite and Water Power Company Minnesela Butte 6 50,000 02/08/1887 2115 42 Minnesota and Dakota Railway Company Fargo Cass 9 5,500,000 10/04/1887 2116 214 Minnesota and Dakota Railway Company (Change of Direction in Rail Line) Fargo Cass 10/10/1887 2116 231 Minnesota Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 9 2,000,000 12/21/1881 2106 87 Minnewaukan Presbyterian Church Minnewaukan Benson 08/17/1886 2114 236 Minto Roller Mill & Elevator Co. Minto Walsh 5 35,000 12/19/1883 2109 357 Miranda Farmers Elevator Company Miranda Faulk 9 5,000 08/03/1888 2117 467 Missouri River Land and Improvement Co. Winona Emmons 3 50,000 04/23/1884 2110 178 Missouri River Northern Railroad Company ?? ?? 8 4,000,000 09/10/1884 2110 492 Missouri River Railroad (Extend Route) Barnes 11/27/1885 2112 252 Missouri River Roscoe and Duluth Rail Road Company LaMoure Lamoure 13 1,400,000 08/04/1887 2116 60 Missouri Valley Brokerage and Investment Company Yankton Yankton 3-11 200,000 05/20/1887 2115 364 Missouri Valley Land and Cattle Co. of Pierre Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 08/07/1886 2114 262 Missouri Valley Land Mortgage Co. Bismarck Burleigh 5 50,000 06/23/1885 2112 25 Missouri Valley Land Mortgage Company (acceptance of provisions) Bismarck Burleigh 5 04/16/1887 2115 250 Missouri Valley Loan and Trust Company Chamberlain Brule 11 100,000 10/20/1888 2118 76 Missouri Valley Protective Association White Lake Aurora 7 11/12/1885 2112 242 Missouri Valley Railway Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 10,000,000 06/11/1886 2114 56 Missouri Valley, Bismarck, and Dakota South Eastern Brown 6 5,000,000 05/26/1886 2113 539 Mitchell Building and Loan Association Mitchell Davison 9 500,000 02/24/1887 2115 80 Mitchell Building and Loan Association (stock split) Mitchell Davison 9 04/10/1889 2118 526

Page 62 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Mitchell Dry Goods Company Mitchell Davison 3 10,000 03/19/1889 2118 452 Mitchell Library Association Mitchell Davison 9 1,000 02/07/1882 2106 166 Mitchell Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Davison County Dako Mitchell Davison 3 02/23/1889 2118 386 Mitchell Printing Company Mitchell Davison 3 12,000 04/21/1888 2117 118 Mitchell Street Railway Company Mitchell Davison 4 50,000 05/15/1883 2108 296 Monarch Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 04/15/1886 2112 541 Monitor Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/19/1886 2113 371 Monitor Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 06/30/1883 2109 59 Monitor Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 9 2,500,000 07/21/1886 2114 190 Monroe Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 2,500,000 01/26/1889 2118 329 Monson Natural Gas Company Fargo Cass 5 50,000 05/26/1886 2113 494 Montana Gold Mining Company of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 5 500,000 10/14/1889 2119 502 Montezuma Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 300 Montreal Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/19/1886 2113 386 Montrose Bank Montrose McCook 3-7 10,000 06/07/1886 2114 18 Montrose Cemetery Corporation Montrose McCook 3 03/08/1882 2106 232 Montrose Roller Mill Company Montrose McCook 7 7,500 07/28/1888 2117 455 Monumental Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/24/1886 2114 116 Moody County Agricultural Association Flandreau Moody 6 03/31/1883 2108 202 Moose River Livestock Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 4 50,000 10/27/1885 2112 226 Mora Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Twp. 142 Cass 3 12/16/1885 2112 294 Moravian Society of Canaan Twp. 138 Cass 3 11/02/1883 2109 293 Morgan's Cemetery Corporation Twp. 107 Miner 5 12/19/1885 2112 302 Morning Star Silver Mining Company Carbonate Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/06/1886 2113 154 Mortgage Bank and Investment Company Ipswich Edmunds 7 500,000 06/13/1887 2115 483 Mount Pleasant Cemetery Association of Rolla Rolette County Dakota Rolla Rolette 3 06/29/1889 2119 232 Mount Terry Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 11 1,250,000 12/11/1888 2118 156 Mountain Peak Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 250,000 03/27/1888 2117 17 Mountain Rose Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/15/1886 2113 3 Mountain View Cemetery Company Rapid City Pennington 7 10,000 08/21/1888 2117 540 Mouse River and Dakota Southern Railroad Company Minneapolis 5 8,000,000 04/30/1887 2115 310 Mouse River Cemetery Corporation Towner McHenry 4 08/30/1887 2116 128 Mouse River Printing Co. Villard McHenry 5 2,000 02/23/1886 2112 389 Mouse River Stock Growers Association Towner McHenry 9 5,000 02/11/1888 2116 466

Page 63 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Mt Vernon Cemetery Association Mt. Vernon Davison 3 05/28/1883 2108 329 Mugwamp Mining Company Lead Lawrence 5 1,000,000 12/09/1884 2111 105 Mumford Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 03/03/1887 2115 139 Mutual Investment Company Pierre Hughes 5-11 10,000,000 05/21/1888 2117 190 Mutual Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 03/24/1885 2111 352 Mutual Publishing House Madison Lake 5 5,000 12/22/1887 2116 374 Mutual Telephone Company Fargo Cass 3 30,000 11/01/1883 2109 282 Mutual Water Company Rapid City Pennington 4 5,000 05/09/1883 2108 292 Napoleon Townsite Co. Steel Kidder 7 2,000 07/31/1885 2112 126 National Building and Loan Association Watertown Codington 7 500,000 06/22/1888 2117 287 National Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/01/1886 2113 100 National Gold Mining & Milling Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 200,000 02/04/1881 2105 91 National Homestead Monument Association Mitchell Davison 3 10/07/1885 2112 210 National Land and Trust Company Huron Beadle 5 250,000 01/12/1889 2118 252 National Loan and Banking Company Madison Lake 5 1,000,000 03/30/1889 2118 485 Nels Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Grand Forks Blooming (twp) Grand Forks 3 12/27/1888 2118 223 Nelson County Land Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 75,000 04/30/1884 2110 190 New Discovery Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/28/1886 2114 131 New Era Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 339 New Hope Cemetery Association Dixon (twp) Hamlin 3-11 05/27/1889 2119 123 New La Plata Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 08/18/1887 2116 106 New North West Land & Loan Company Fargo Cass 3 50,000 11/01/1882 2107 289 New Rockford Cemetery Association New Rockford Eddy 3 08/06/1888 2117 472 New Slavanger Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Buxton Dakota Buxton Traill 3 07/01/1887 2115 557 Newark Elevator Company Newark Marshall 3 15,000 04/09/1889 2118 518 Newark Milling and Elevator Company Newark Marshall 11 20,000 09/14/1888 2118 21 Newport Union Church Society Lisbon Ransom 5 04/25/1882 2106 294 Niagara Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 564 Nickel Plate Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/06/1886 2113 158 Nidaros Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Sverdrup Minnehaha Not Listed 08/15/1887 2116 32 Nigger Hill and Iron Creek Consolidated Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 4 2,500,000 05/23/1882 2107 6 Nigger Hill Consolidated Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 06/24/1882 2107 63 Noble and Johnson Bakery Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 12,500 01/24/1887 2115 5 Noble Grand Gold & Silver Mining Co. Two Bit Gulch Lawrence 11 500,000 01/17/1882 2106 123

Page 64 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Noble Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 08/11/1886 2114 269 Nordlake Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Scandinavia (tw Deuel 5 12/29/1888 2118 236 Nordstjesnen Publishing Co. Fargo Cass 5 5,000 03/29/1882 2106 269 Norfolk Stone Company Smithwick Fall River 5 800,000 11/01/1888 2118 98 Norman Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Clifford Traill Not Listed 07/30/1888 2117 419 North America Milling and Elevator Company Pembina Pembina 4 25,000 10/10/1887 2116 228 North American Investment Company Huron Beadle 5 500,000 01/17/1887 2114 563 North American Oil Company Crook County 5 1,250,000 07/24/1886 2114 202 North Dakota Coal Economizing Company Fargo Cass 5 10,000 06/11/1886 2114 61 North Dakota Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Fargo Cass 7 11/28/1887 2116 326 North Dakota Co-Operative Mercantile Company Mandan Morton 9 30,000 06/10/1889 2119 163 North Dakota Dairymen's Association Kibby Cass 5 12,000 01/06/1882 2106 113 North Dakota Farmer Publishing Company Jamestown Stutsman 6 5,000 08/24/1886 2114 291 North Dakota Hail Association Cooperstown Griggs 9 02/05/1889 2118 340 North Dakota Land and Townsite Company Langdon Cavalier 3 11/21/1887 2116 314 North Dakota Loan & Trust Company Jamestown Stutsman 9 100,000 05/13/1882 2106 336 North Dakota Loan and Trust Company Jamestown Stutsman 7 100,000 06/11/1887 2115 470 North Dakota Masons and Odd Fellows Aid and Accident Association Grand Forks Grand Forks 9 02/21/1889 2118 380 North Dakota Mining and Improvement Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 500,000 09/30/1889 2119 483 North Dakota Non-Partisan Prohibition Alliance Fargo Cass 9 250,000 06/13/1889 2119 187 North Dakota Telephone & Telegraph Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 50,000 10/20/1883 2109 260 North Dakota Title Insurance and Trust Company Towner McHenry 5 250,000 05/20/1889 2119 104 North Dakota Trust Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 50,000 01/09/1883 2108 44 North Dakota University Fargo Cass 9 05/19/1881 2105 185 North Preston Norwegian Lutheran Congregation Kingsbury 3 02/27/1885 2111 279 North Shore Secured Investment Company of Devils Lake Dakota Devils Lake Ramsey 3-5 50,000 12/04/1886 2114 478 North Star Gold & Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 10,000,000 08/08/1879 2104 120 North West Grain & Fuel Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 5,000 04/10/1885 2111 385 North Western Improvement Company Redfield Spink 5 100,000 01/18/1887 2114 571 North Western Marble Company Buffalo Gap Custer 5 300,000 12/19/1887 2116 368 North Western Mortgage Trust Company Redfield Spink 5 50,000 10/22/1887 2116 265 North Western Seed Company Aberdeen Brown 3 20,000 12/12/1887 2116 353 Northeastern Railroad Company Columbia Brown 9 500,000 07/07/1888 2117 348 Northern Associated Press Fargo Cass 11 200,000 08/08/1882 2107 159

Page 65 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Northern Dakota Elevator Co. Jamestown Stutsman 7 50,000 07/27/1885 2112 111 Northern Dakota Elevator Company (increase of stock) Jamestown Stutsman 7 100,000 09/24/1886 2114 357 Northern Dakota Stage & Transportation Company Bartlett Ramsey 5 25,000 03/22/1883 2108 184 Northern Light Electric Company Wahpeton Richland 3 20,000 05/02/1888 2117 143 Northern Pacific LaMoure and Missouri River Railroad Company LaMoure LaMoure 5 1,850,000 12/10/1886 2114 494 Northside Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,000,000 04/07/1887 2115 236 Northville Elevator Company Northville Spink 3 5,000 04/20/1885 2111 423 Northville Methodist Episcopal Church Northville Spink Not Listed 08/15/1888 2117 500 Northwest Electric Construction Company Bismarck Burleigh 3-11 1,000,000 11/07/1887 2116 287 Northwest Grain and Fuel Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 25,000 04/28/1887 2115 303 Northwestern Construction Company of Dakota Wahpeton Richland 3 25,000 04/17/1889 2118 551 Northwestern Electric Light and Power Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 4 50,000 04/13/1888 2117 91 Northwestern Electric Light Heat & Power Co. Fargo Cass 3 100,000 11/21/1881 2106 56 Northwestern Grain & Land Co. Pierre Hughes 5 8,000 01/12/1886 2112 347 Northwestern Insurance Company Bismarck Burleigh 7 50,000 02/27/1885 2111 274 Northwestern Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 12/05/1888 2118 174 Northwestern Investment Company (increase of stock) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 300,000 05/01/1889 2119 62 Northwestern Investment Company (increase of stock) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 500,000 05/09/1889 2119 85 Northwestern Land & Improvement Association Mandan Morton 7 10,000 11/03/1881 2106 44 Northwestern Life Insurance Co. Huron Beadle 5 100,000 02/12/1886 2112 375 Northwestern Loan & Trust Company Aberdeen Brown 5 100,000 08/16/1883 2109 133 Northwestern Loan and Banking Company Madison Lake 5 1,000,000 07/11/1889 2119 270 Northwestern Milling & Elevator Co. Tower City Cass 7 30,000 04/29/1885 2111 454 Northwestern Mortgage Trust Company (increase of stock) Redfield Spink 100,000 06/11/1888 2117 253 Northwestern Mutual Livestock Association Bismarck Burleigh 3 01/18/1884 2109 417 Northwestern Norwegian & Danish Methodist Episcopal Church Cooperstown Griggs 3 04/10/1885 2111 381 Northwestern Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 750,000 05/26/1886 2113 496 Northwestern Pressed Brick Company Huron Beadle 5 5,000 05/09/1882 2106 322 Northwestern Savings Loan and Building Association Huron Beadle 7 20,000,000 02/18/1889 2118 375 Northwestern Scandinavian Farmers Mutual Fire and Hail insurance Company o Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 06/09/1887 2115 450 Northwestern Seed Company (increase of stock) Aberdeen Brown 55,000 06/12/1888 2117 258 Northwestern Silver Mining Co. Central City Lawrence 7 500,000 03/24/1885 2111 354 Northwestern Straw Fuel Company Pierre Hughes 3+ 10,000 09/11/1886 2114 294 Northwestern Trust Company Fargo Cass 3 50,000 05/21/1883 2108 306

Page 66 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Norway Edison Twp. Minnehaha 3 03/14/1884 2110 72 Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Split Rock Brandon Minnehaha 3 06/13/1884 2110 301 Norwegian & Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Columbia Brown 3 06/09/1885 2111 571 Norwegian and Dane Free Lutheran Church of Huron Huron Beadle 4 04/10/1889 2118 445 Norwegian and Danish Methodist Episcopal Church (Election of Directors) Grand Forks Grand Forks 03/08/1887 2115 169 Norwegian and Danish Methodist Episcopal Church of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 03/15/1887 2115 170 Norwegian Baptist Church of Brookings Brookings Brookings 3 05/23/1883 2108 314 Norwegian Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Valley City Valley City Barnes 3 12/16/1882 2108 4 Norwegian Danish Pantapasidan Evangelical Lutheran Church Fargo Cass 3 01/23/1880 2104 198 Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Church Wanari Bon Homme 3 11/05/1888 2118 100 Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Congregation Canton Lincoln 9 11/04/1880 2105 3 Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brookings Brookings Brookings ? 03/22/1886 2112 458 Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canton Canton Lincoln 3 05/18/1880 2104 278 Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Grafton Grafton Walsh 3 04/16/1883 2108 240 Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lake Campbell Oslo and Medar Brookings 3 07/30/1887 2116 45 Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Prairie Queen Prairie Queen Lake 3 09/06/1884 2110 495 Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Flandreau Flandreau Moody 3 09/29/1882 2107 246 Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 10/31/1879 2104 163 Norwegian Lutheran Trinity Church of Revillo Revillo Grant 3-9 08/02/1889 2119 324 Norwegian Society of Township 139 North Range 52 West Cass Co. Cass 3 03/23/1881 2105 119 Notre Dame Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 1,000,000 09/09/1889 2119 424 Novelty Creamery Company Wahpeton Richland 3 4,000 03/31/1888 2117 38 Nulph Cemetery Association Danton (twp) Richland 4 05/24/1887 2115 373 Nyjer Hill Tin Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 02/01/1888 2116 433 O.K. Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 04/30/1886 2113 96 Oak Creek Cemetery Association Bottineau Bottineau 5 09/27/1887 2116 200 Oakes Building and Loan Association Oakes Dickey 11 500,000 09/17/1887 2116 179 Oakes Milling Company Oakes Dickey 5 40,000 06/05/1888 2117 238 Oakford & Nelson Mercantile Co. Dayey Barnes 3 30,000 02/03/1886 2112 365 Odd Fellows Temple Building Association of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 9 20,000 04/06/1887 2115 226 Oelrichs Cemetery Association Oelrichs Fall River 5 06/10/1889 2119 166 Oelrichs Packing House Company Oelrichs Fall River 3 50,000 01/05/1889 2118 249 Ohio Mining Company Central, Lead, a Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 513 Ohuer Wilson Furniture Company Fargo Cass 5 60,000 03/31/1883 2108 205

Page 67 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Okobojo Cemetery Association Okobojo Sully 3 05/12/1888 2117 175 Oldham Baptist Church Oldham Kingsbury 3 04/07/1887 2115 232 Oldham Shipping Association Oldham Kingsbury 7 2,000 08/16/1888 2117 501 Olive Branch Lodge No. 47 AF and AM Sturgis Lawrence 3 07/11/1885 2112 60 Olive Tin Mining Milling and Manufacturing Company Rapid City Pennington 5 500,000 12/17/1888 2118 203 Olivet Presbyterian Society of Volga Volga Brookings 3 06/13/1881 2105 233 Olivet Society of Brethren Church Olivet Hutchinson 3 05/28/1883 2108 317 Omaha Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 10/18/1889 2119 537 Oneota Methodist Episcopal Church Oneota (twp) Brown Not Listed 04/16/1888 2117 99 Onida Cemetery Association Onida Sully 5 05/22/1886 2113 450 Onida Land & Building Association Onida Sully 4 9,600 05/08/1885 2111 500 Ontario Silver & Gold Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 9 1.250,000 04/08/1886 2112 518 Opdols Menighed Church of Yankton & Turner County Twps 96 & 97 Yankton & Tu 3 02/25/1882 2106 196 Ophir Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 500,000 05/07/1885 2111 475 Order of Bachelors (O.A.B's) Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 04/07/1886 2112 523 Order of Saint Benedict Bismarck Burleigh 3 08/23/1879 2104 129 Ordway Bismarck & Northwester Railway Co. Ordway Brown 5 500,000 05/30/1883 2108 339 Ordway Bismarck and North Western Railway Co. (change of RR direction) Ordway Brown 5 500,000 09/20/1886 2114 349 Ordway Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Co. (sep. of classes of stocks) Ordway Brown 5 5,000,000 10/27/1886 2114 408 Ordway Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Company (change of route) Ordway Brown 05/28/1887 2115 401 Ordway Bismarck Northwestern Railway Co.(Resignation of a Director) 05/12/1884 2110 213 Ordway Cemetery Association Ordway Brown 5 10/26/1888 2118 87 Ordway Frederick & Bismarck Railroad Co. Frederick Brown 7 250,000 05/08/1883 2108 288 Ordway, Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Co. (Stock Split and Classification) Ordway Brown 5,000,000 05/31/1887 2115 423 Ordway, Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Company now Aberdeen Bismarc 06/13/1887 2115 485 Oregon Colonization Company Prohibition City Stark 8 10,000 08/25/1884 2110 470 Orient Creamery Company Orient Faulk 5 1,000 04/09/1888 2117 73 Osceola Shipping Association Osceola Kingsbury 7 5,000 08/13/1888 2117 495 Oslo Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Moody County Blinsmon Moody 3 05/08/1882 2106 314 Ota Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,00 05/25/1886 2113 483 Our Lady of the Rosary County of Codington, Territory of Dakota Kranzburg Codington 5 03/31/1888 2117 42 Our Savior Norwegian Luth. Evangelical Luth. Church Soc. of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 02/18/1879 2104 46 Our Saviors Evangelical Lutheran Church Grafton Walsh 3 07/03/1882 2107 78 Owl Club of Lakota Dakota Lakota Nelson 7 5,500 03/25/1887 2115 196

Page 68 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Oxford Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/24/1886 2114 118 Pacific Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 1,250,000 05/29/1886 2113 530 Pacific Railroad (resolution to extend its route) 10/13/1883 2109 243 Pa-Ha Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/13/1886 2113 290 Palisade Building Association & Improvement Co. Palisade Twp. Minnehaha 7 1,000 03/15/1886 2112 439 Palisades Improvement Company Palisades (twp) Minnehaha 5 50,000 03/27/1888 2117 19 Panama Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/13/1886 2113 292 Park Addition Association Pierre Hughes 3 100,000 05/09/1883 2108 294 Park River Baptist Church Park River Walsh 3 06/19/1885 2112 9 Park River Cemetery Walsh 3 09/16/1882 2107 212 Park River Creamery Company of Park River Park River Walsh 7 5,000 03/30/1888 2117 32 Park River Driving Park and Agricultural Fair Association of Park River, Walsh Co Park River Walsh 5 1,500 07/18/1888 2117 423 Parker Cemetery Association Parker Turner 3 08/21/1880 2104 359 Parker Mill Company Parker Turner 3 25,000 02/05/1885 2111 220 Parkston Opera House Company Parkston Hutchinson 3-11 1,000 04/27/1889 2119 48 Parson's Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/16/1887 2115 175 Pease Valley Presbyterian Church March Charles Mix 3 07/01/1889 2119 238 Pelican Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 307 Pembina Bridge Association Pembina Pembina 3 2,000 07/18/1879 2104 114 Pembina Building and Loan Association Pembina Pembina 9 400,000 02/09/1888 2116 450 Pembina County Agricultural & Industrial Association Bathgate Pembina 18 2,000 10/04/1883 2109 226 Pembina County Agricultural and Industrial Association Bathgate Pembina 25 3,000 07/11/1887 2115 574 Pembina County Creamery Company Pembina Pembina 5 8,000 01/23/1888 2116 393 Pembina County Telephone Company Pembina Pembina 3 5,000 10/31/1888 2118 94 Pembina Elevator Company Pembina Pembina 4 50,000 11/29/1886 2114 467 Pembina Hotel Company Pembina Pembina 7 6,000 05/11/1881 2105 165 Pembina Mill Co. Pembina Pembina 4 15,000 06/03/1880 2104 306 Pembina Mill Company Pembina Pembina 50,000 06/23/1883 2109 53 Pembina Mill Company Pembina Pembina 3 12/12/1881 2106 81 Pembina Milling & Manufacturing Co. Pembina Pembina 4 50,000 03/13/1886 2112 434 Pennington County Bank Rapid City Pennington 7 50,000 03/19/1888 2117 1 Pennington County Industrial Association Rapid City Pennington 5 50,000 07/27/1885 2112 109 Pennsylvania Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 7 2,500,000 05/22/1886 2113 439 Pennsylvania Oil Company of Dakota Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 548

Page 69 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Penobseot Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,000,000 10/09/1881 2106 4 People's Bank Bowdle Edmunds 3 50,000 04/08/1889 2118 509 People's Bank of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 5 10,000 05/14/1884 2110 221 Peoples Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 500,000 11/18/1882 2107 309 Percheron and Arabian Importing Horse Company Rapid City Pennington 3 40,000 10/07/1887 2116 222 Perfect Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 515 Petroleum Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 444 Phil Kearney Memorial Association of Yankton Dakota Territory Yankton Yankton 7 06/11/1887 2115 467 Phil Sheridan Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 01/15/1889 2118 275 Philadelphia Coal Company No. 1 Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 05/25/1880 2104 291 Philadelphia Coal Company No. 2 Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 05/25/1880 2104 293 Philadelphia Coal Company No. 3 Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 05/25/1880 2104 295 Phoenix Hotel Company of Highmore Highmore Hyde 5 3,000 09/05/1888 2118 10 Phoenix Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 750,000 02/18/1886 2112 381 Pierre & Southwestern Railroad Company Pierre Hughes 7 5,000,000 05/24/1884 2110 251 Pierre Cemetery Association Pierre Hughes 4 2,000 02/09/1882 2106 172 Pierre City Railroad Co. Pierre Hughes 5 25,000 06/08/1885 2111 567 Pierre City Railway Co. Pierre Hughes 5 25,000 07/03/1885 2112 47 Pierre Electric Light and Power Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 06/13/1889 2119 183 Pierre Ferry & Transfer Co Pierre Hughes 3 10,000 04/12/1886 2112 538 Pierre Gas & Light Company Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 05/01/1883 2108 279 Pierre Livestock Company Pierre Hughes 5 100,000 08/14/1889 2119 373 Pierre Loan and Savings Company Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 12/18/1886 2114 518 Pierre Pontoon Ridge Company Pierre Hughes 6 100,000 05/28/1889 2119 129 Pierre Publishing Company Pierre Hughes 4 20,000 04/19/1889 2119 5 Pierre Publishing Company Pierre Hughes 5 10,000 04/11/1884 2110 132 Pierre Savings Bank Pierre Hughes 7 50,000 05/15/1888 2117 179 Pierre Street Railway Company Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 04/05/1883 2108 218 Pierre Union Bridge & Transfer Co. Pierre Hughes 7 2,000,000 12/26/1885 2112 312 Pierre Water Works Co. Pierre Hughes 5 125,000 05/16/1885 2111 517 Pilot Hill Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 3,000,000 05/27/1886 2113 500 Pilot Publishing Company Clark Clark 5 3,000 09/09/1886 2114 336 Pioneer Club Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 5,500 10/13/1882 2107 261 Pioneer Club Grand Forks Grand Forks 100,000 10/30/1882 2107 285

Page 70 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Pioneer Cooperative Of Lincoln County Lincoln 3 20,000 03/14/1882 2106 238 Pioneer Hose Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 01/21/1886 2112 360 Pioneer Land & Business Association Mandan Morton 5 24,000 01/17/1882 2106 125 Pioneer Milling Company Ellendale Dickey 3 15,000 05/31/1884 2110 262 Pioneer Mining Company Colfax Richland 8 10,000 01/29/1882 2106 151 Pioneer Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 428 Pioneer Publishing Co. Jamestown Stutsman 3 5,000 09/25/1885 2112 195 Pioneer Publishing Company Mandan Morton 3 17,000 08/27/1883 2109 159 Pioneer Publishing Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 5,000 12/06/1887 2116 340 Pioneer Soap Company South Sioux Fall Minnehaha 3 25,000 06/06/1889 2119 173 Plain Dealer Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 25,000 02/14/1889 2118 362 Plaindealer Printing Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 10,000 05/21/1881 2105 189 Plainview Cemetery Association of Armadale Armadale Spink 7 05/02/1885 2111 467 Plainview Farming & Stockraising Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 25,000 01/30/1882 2106 153 Planet Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 485 Planette Methodist Episcopal Church of Cando Cando Towner Per Discipli 10/16/1889 2119 545 Plankinton Academy Plankinton Aurora 9 04/09/1886 2112 525 Plankinton Cemetery Association Twp. # 103 Aurora 5 07/24/1882 2107 112 Plankinton Dairy Company Plankinton Aurora 7 2,500 06/22/1887 2115 505 Pleasant Grove Seventh Day Baptist Church Clare (twp) Moody 3 05/11/1889 2118 516 Pleasant Hill Burying Ground Association Pleasant Hill Hutchinson 3 11/08/1886 2114 418 Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association of Virginia Township Union county Virginia Twp. Union 3 06/22/1881 2105 244 Pleasant Mound Cemetery Twp. 107 Moody 3 02/13/1883 2108 103 Pleasant Ridge Cemetery Association Armour Douglas 5 1,000 07/06/1889 2119 247 Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Church of Meade County Pleasant Valley Meade 3-11 10/12/1889 2119 499 Pleasant View Cemetery Association Lincoln 3 03/03/1882 2106 210 Pleasant View Cemetery Association Spring Lake (tw Kingsbury 7 08/28/1886 2114 308 Plutus Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 02/25/1888 2116 507 Plymouth Congregational Church of Fargo Fargo Cass 3-9 12/20/1886 2114 527 Plymouth Congregational Church of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand forks 3 07/02/1885 2112 34 Pocahontas Mining Co. Carbonate Lawrence 3 1,250,000 12/12/1885 2112 286 Portland Building Association Portland Traill 3 5,000 11/01/1887 2116 277 Potasi Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/22/1886 2113 48 Potter County Agricultural Association Gettysburg Potter 7 2,000 08/21/1885 2112 162

Page 71 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Potter County Agricultural Society Forest City Potter 11 09/13/1884 2110 501 Potter County Farmers Elevator Company Gettysburg Potter 9 1,500 08/06/1888 2117 475 Prairie Land Company Scotland Bon Homme 3 500,000 02/24/1888 2116 499 Presbyterian Church at Emery Emery Hanson 3 12/11/1884 2111 115 Presbyterian Church of (?) Dakota ?? Pembina 3 11/10/1883 2109 302 Presbyterian Church of Bathgate Bathgate Pembina 5 10/11/1883 2109 237 Presbyterian Church of Beaulieu Beaulieu Cavalier 4 03/26/1886 2112 468 Presbyterian Church of Gilby Gilby (twp) Grand Forks 3-11 09/09/1887 2116 156 Presbyterian Church of Glasston Glasston Pembina 3 03/07/1888 2116 527 Presbyterian Church of Hamilton Hamilton Pembina 3 08/13/1884 2110 452 Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro Hillsboro Traill 3 09/22/1884 2110 516 Presbyterian Church of Kimball Kimball Brule 3 04/13/1882 2106 277 Presbyterian Church of Langdon Langdon Cavalier 5 08/08/1888 2117 483 Presbyterian Church of Milnor Milnor Sargent ?? 04/10/1885 2111 363 Presbyterian Church of Milton Milton Cavalier Not Listed 07/06/1888 2117 341 Presbyterian Church of Minto Dakota Minot Ward 7 02/06/1888 2116 439 Presbyterian Church of New Madison New Madison Lake 3 04/23/1881 2105 149 Presbyterian Church of Rolla Rolla Rolette 3 04/26/1889 2119 42 Presbyterian Church of Sanborn Dakota Sanborn Barnes 5+ 07/26/1888 2117 425 Presbyterian Church of Sterling Sterling Burleigh 5 03/15/1886 2112 443 Presbyterian Church of Tyndall Tyndall Bon Homme 3 04/02/1881 2105 137 Presbyterian of Faris Dakota Territory Faris Edmunds 3-11 01/08/1889 2118 278 Presbyterian Society of White Lake White Lake Aurora 3 07/27/1883 2109 100 Presbytery of Aberdeen Groton Brown 3 5,000 05/02/1885 2111 458 Presbytery of Southern Dakota Pierre Hughes 3 07/09/1883 2109 68 Presbytery of Southern Dakota Scotland Bon Homme 3-11 04/20/1886 2113 24 Presentation Academy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Aberdeen Brown 4 100,000 08/08/1887 2116 75 Press Printing Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 10,000 02/29/1888 2116 510 Prior Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/04/1886 2113 136 Prior Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 07/06/1886 2114 144 Pro Cache Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 311 Producers Exchange Fargo Cass 3 10,000 11/14/1888 2118 95 Prospect Hill Cemetery Association Oakes Dickey 3 07/03/1889 2119 243 Prospect Hill Cemetery Association Wessington Spri Jerauld 5 05/24/1887 2115 377

Page 72 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Prospect Methodist Episcopal Church Twp. 51 Lake 4 06/26/1884 2110 318 Providence Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 02/02/1889 2118 334 Pueblo Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/22/1886 2113 50 Putney Methodist Episcopal Church Putney Brown Not Listed 09/16/1887 2116 176 Queen Bee Mill Co. Hope Griggs 3 50,000 02/27/1883 2108 126 Queen Bee Mill Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 6 300,000 01/09/1883 2108 40 Queen Bee's Fold Mining and Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 7 1,500,000 06/10/1886 2114 29 Queen City Boat Club Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 1,000 03/31/1889 2119 3 Queen City Consolidated Oil Company of Spearfish Spearfish Lawrence 5 1,500,000 06/05/1886 2113 587 Queen City Cornet Band Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 03/29/1882 2106 262 Queen City Hook and Ladder Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 12/10/1886 2114 497 Queen Consolidated Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 01/17/1884 2109 415 Quincy Silver Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 6 150,000 04/10/1886 2112 529 Rainbow Mining Company of Lawrence County Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 09/16/1885 2112 181 Ram's Horn Silver Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 431 Ramsey County Breeders Association Devils Lake Ramsey 3 5,000 04/21/1888 2117 114 Ransom County Agricultural and Driving Park Association Lisbon Ransom 9 5,000 09/14/1885 2112 180 Rapid City & Southwestern Railroad Co. Rapid City Pennington 5 500,000 03/06/1886 2112 413 Rapid City and Jamestown Improvement Company Rapid City Pennington 5 100,000 02/09/1889 2118 351 Rapid City Board of Trade Rapid City Pennington 11 05/20/1886 2113 415 Rapid City Coal Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5 5,000 08/31/1878 2104 11 Rapid City Driving Park Rapid City Pennington 9 5,000 08/02/1884 2110 393 Rapid City Electric and gas Light Company Rapid City Pennington 11 None Listed 08/30/1886 2114 302 Rapid City Fair Association Rapid City Pennington 9 10,000 04/30/1886 2113 89 Rapid City Gas & Light & Fuel Co. Rapid City Pennington 5 50,000 03/29/1886 2112 485 Rapid City Harney Peak and Southwestern Railway Company Rapid City Pennington 5 2,500,000 07/23/1888 2117 435 Rapid City Library Association Rapid City Pennington 5 01/24/1881 2105 73 Rapid City Masonic Temple building Association Rapid City Pennington 5 30,000 04/20/1882 2106 285 Rapid City Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5 500,000 10/31/1881 2106 32 Rapid City oil and Coal Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 11 2,000,000 08/04/1886 2114 245 Rapid City Street Railway Co. Rapid City Pennington 7 100,000 01/04/1886 2112 335 Rapid City Tin Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 7 1,000,000 05/22/1886 2113 434 Rapid City Trotting Horse Company Rapid City Pennington 5 2,000 06/01/1889 2119 136 Rapid City Water Company Rapid City Pennington 5 200,000 09/29/1882 2107 249

Page 73 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Rapid City Water Works Rapid City Pennington 3 100,000 06/18/1880 2104 313 Rapid City Wyoming and Western Railway Company of Rapid City Dakota Rapid City Pennington 6 1,000,000 06/13/1887 2115 476 Rapid Creek Lumber and Boom Co. Rapid City Pennington 3 10,000 02/10/1886 2112 374 Rapid Creek Lumber and Navigation Company Rapid City Pennington 3 50,000 03/07/1887 2115 151 Rapid Gold Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5 2,000,000 01/21/1889 2118 305 Rapid River Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 7 60,000 07/29/1889 2119 311 Rapid Valley Irrigating Company Rapid City Pennington 3 15,000 02/07/1879 2104 52 Rattler Gilroy Consolidated Mining Co Central City Lawrence 7 1,500,000 02/26/1886 2112 398 Rattler Mining Company Central City Lawrence 9 500,000 01/30/1885 2111 206 Record Publishing Company Valley City Barnes 9 5,000 02/14/1883 2108 99 Rector Mining Company Fargo Cass 5 500,000 03/05/1887 2115 148 Rector Warden and Vestrymen of a All Saints Church Valley City Barnes 6 08/23/1884 2110 466 Red Flag Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 556 Red River Agricultural Society Wahpeton Richland 9 10,000 01/14/1889 2118 259 Red River Farming Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 40,000 06/14/1882 2107 46 Red River Mining Company Fargo Cass 5 07/14/1886 2114 166 Red River University Fargo Cass 11 01/25/1881 2105 76 Red River Valley Club of St. Thomas Dakota St. Thomas Pembina 3 05/01/1888 2117 135 Red River Valley Life and Accident Benefit Association Fargo Cass 5 02/17/1882 2106 188 Red Water & Belle Fourche Milling and Irrigating Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 10,000 05/27/1879 2104 95 Redfield Basebal Association Redfield Spink 5 5,000 04/17/1889 2118 555 Redfield Bismarck Northern Railroad Co. Redfield Spink 5 5,000,000 01/15/1884 2109 413 Redfield Building and Loan Association Redfield Spink 11 500,000 05/20/1886 2113 537 Redfield College Redfield Spink 7 05/03/1887 2115 323 Redfield Driving Park Association Redfield Spink 7 2,500 07/16/1888 2117 322 Redfield Elevator Company Redfield Spink 7 10,000 12/03/1888 2118 141 Redwater & Belle Fourche Milling and Irrigation Co. (Increase Cap. Stock) Minnesela Butte 250,000 03/04/1886 2112 410 Redwater Land and Irrigation Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 08/03/1889 2119 334 Ree Heights Creamery Company Ree Heights Hand 3 3,000 11/01/1887 2116 275 Ree Heights Water & Coal Company Ree Heights Hand 5 4,500 08/09/1883 2109 122 Ree Valley and Hand County Agricultural Society Miller Hand 7 08/02/1887 2116 73 Ree Valley Lodge No. 62 I.O.O.F. Miller Hand 3 03/17/1885 2111 326 Reformed Behanian Church Scotland Bon Homme 3 05/13/1886 2113 258 Reformed Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 02/27/1884 2110 22

Page 74 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Reformed Friedens Congregation Twp. 96 Bon Homme 3 03/04/1884 2110 29 Reformed Hoffnungs (Hope) Church Yankton Yankton 3-11 07/09/1886 2114 162 Refugio Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 554 Rehoboth Church Evangelical Lutheran Adams Twp. Adams 3 12/04/1885 2112 262 Republican Publishing Co. Rapid City Pennington 7 1,500 07/23/1884 2110 374 Resolution Changing name to Ellendale East & West R.R. Co. Dickey 06/27/1883 2109 54 Resolution Changing Route of East & West R.R. Dickey 06/27/1883 2109 55 Resolution Dakota Central Railway Co. Designating Proposed route 07/13/1883 2109 83 Resolution Increasing stock of Ellendale East & West R.R. Co. 06/27/1883 2109 61 Resumption Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 03/25/1879 2104 82 Retrieve Silver Mining Company Fort Buford Hutchinson 3 100,000 05/01/1888 2117 132 Retriever Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 560 Revenue Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/14/1888 2117 326 Reynolds Opera House Association Reynolds Grand Forks 3 500,000 01/14/1889 2118 190 Rialto Silver Mining Co. Spearfish Lawrence 7 500,000 05/29/1885 2111 560 Richland Baptist Church Richland 3 08/04/1882 2107 147 Richland Congregation of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Twp. 135 Richland 3 10/17/1884 2111 25 Richland County Agricultural & Industrial association Wahpeton Richland 11 25,000 05/13/1882 2106 341 Richland County Agricultural Society Lidgerwood Richland 5 10/12/1888 2118 56 Richland Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 45 Richmond Consolidated Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 326 Richmond Hill Consolidated Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/29/1886 2113 526 Richmond Town Site Company Richmond Brown 5 20,000 11/20/1879 2104 175 Rio Cheese Co. Rio Stutsman 7 2,500 07/10/1889 2119 264 Ritchie Lumber Company Watertown Codington 5 10,000 07/24/1888 2117 440 River Side Cemetery Pierre Hughes 3 12/23/1884 2111 133 Riverdale Townsite Company Riverdale Dickey 5 10,000 06/09/1887 2115 447 Riverside Ranch Company of Morton County Riverside Ranch Morton 6 200,000 06/17/1886 2114 392 Roberts Chapel Methodist Episcopal Twp. 99 Douglas 3 03/17/1885 2111 324 Rochester Black Hills Gold Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 500,000 08/30/1887 2116 132 Rockerville and Teepee Ditch and Flume Company Rockerville Pennington 3 15,000 02/08/1879 2104 49 Rockford & Rapid Creek Flume Company Rockford Pennington 7 100,000 05/18/1879 2104 88 Rockford Creamery Company New Rockford Eddy 7 5,000 06/02/1888 2117 216 Rockland Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 4 250,000 03/13/1886 2112 433

Page 75 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Rolette County Bank Dunseith Rolette 5 25,000 10/31/1889 2119 562 Roller King Milling Company Yankton 3 10,000 09/03/1884 2110 480 Roman Catholic Church of Sacred Heart of Aberdeen Aberdeen Brown 4 06/27/1884 2110 323 Roman Catholic Church of Sacred Heart of City of Yankton Yankton Yankton 3 06/10/1884 2110 293 Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick Lodi Clay 4 06/11/1885 2112 266 Roman Catholic Church of St, Ann of Frankfort Frankfort Spink 3 04/16/1884 2110 151 Roman Catholic Church of St. Ann in Badus Badus Lake 3 07/23/1884 2110 416 Roman Catholic Church of St. Ann in Badus Badus Lake 4 03/08/1884 2110 48 Roman Catholic Church of St. Anthony Richland 4 05/10/1884 2110 208 Roman Catholic Church of St. Charles In Big Stone City Big Stone City Grant 3 07/23/1884 2110 370 Roman Catholic Church of St. Columbkill Star Corners Clay 4 06/11/1885 2112 269 Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist Lakeport Yankton 3 09/22/1884 2110 523 Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist of Ardoch Ardoch Walsh 5 04/16/1884 2110 140 Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Evangelist Wahpeton Richland 3 03/19/1884 2110 84 Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph Elk Point Union 3 07/25/1884 2110 389 Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph of Richland Richland 3 11/05/1884 2111 42 Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph of Summit Summit Spink 3 06/06/1884 2110 282 Roman Catholic Church of St. Kyran Yankton 5 12/04/1884 2111 95 Roman Catholic Church of St. Lawrence in Milbank Milbank Grant 3 07/23/1884 2110 423 Roman Catholic Church of St. Martin in Huron Huron Beadle 3 07/11/1884 2110 347 Roman Catholic Church of St. Martin of Emery Emery Hanson 3 02/27/1885 2111 258 Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 3 11/29/1884 2111 89 Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary's of the Immaculate Conception of Rapid Cit Rapid City Pennington 5 08/23/1887 2116 110 Roman Catholic Church of St. Patrick in Minto Minto Walsh 4 04/16/1884 2110 145 Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter of White Lake White Lake Aurora 3 10/03/1884 2111 8 Roman Catholic Church of St. Thomas Madison Lake 3 02/15/1884 2109 479 Roman Catholic Church of St. Timothy in Manvel Manvel Grand Forks 3 04/16/1884 2110 158 Roman Catholic Church of Sts Peter & Paul in Pierre Pierre Hughes 3 07/23/1884 2110 427 Roman Catholic Church of Sts. Simon & Jude in Flandreau Flandreau Moody 4 03/08/1884 2110 43 Roman Catholic Congregation of St. Joseph Mandan, County of Morton Mandan Morton 5 01/30/1888 2116 416 Roman Catholic of St. Wenceslaus of Tabor Tabor Bon Homme 3 07/14/1884 2110 356 Roscoe Cemetery Corporation Roscoe Edmunds 5 5,000 01/03/1888 2116 387 Roscoe Creamery Company Roscoe Edmunds 11 7,000 03/31/1888 2117 40 Roscoe Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Moody County Midway Moody 3 09/29/1882 2107 244

Page 76 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Rose Hill Cemetery Association Wentworth Lake 5 06/17/1882 2107 56 Rosendal Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Highland (twp) Minnehaha 3 06/16/1888 2117 264 Roseni Evangelisk Luthersk Menighed Spink Twp. Union 3 01/02/1884 2109 384 Ross Hannibal Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 331 Rowena First Methodist Episcopal Church Rowena Minnehaha Not Listed 01/12/1889 2118 273 Rowena Granite Company Rowena Minnehaha 3 25,000 08/25/1888 2117 552 Royal Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/16/1886 2113 5 Rubel Furniture Company Huron Beadle 3 1500 08/31/1885 2112 174 Rubicon Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 05/04/1886 2113 132 Ruby Basin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 11/23/1888 2118 124 Ruby Bell Gold and Silver Mining Company Ruby Basin Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/06/1886 2113 152 Ruby Flat Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 235 Ruby Gold & Silver Mining Company Lawrence 5 1,000,000 04/16/1884 2110 155 Ruby Wilkes Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/15/1888 2117 177 Ruby Wonder Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 320 Ruralist Company Aberdeen Brown 5 10,000 04/27/1888 2117 128 Russell & Miller Milling Co. Valley City Barnes 4 100,000 08/08/1885 2112 147 Ryan Land Improvement Company Rowena Minnehaha 3 25,000 08/25/1888 2117 554 S. and B. Stock Farm Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 250,000 12/13/1886 2114 501 Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church of Lead City Lead City Lawrence Not Listed 06/18/1888 2117 273 Saint Paul Methodist Episcopal Church of Central City Central City Lawrence 3 06/04/1881 2105 218 Saint Peter Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, Lake County Lake 3 06/24/1889 2119 212 Salem Church Society of the Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Association o Lincoln (twp) Douglas 3+ 05/02/1889 2119 63 Salem Driving Park Association Salem McCook 5 1,000 05/24/1887 2115 375 Salem Methodist Episcopal Church Salem McCook 08/13/1886 2114 240 Salem Mill company Salem McCook 5 10,000 05/02/1885 2111 469 Salem's Church of the Evangelical Association of N. A. Twp. 105 Moody 03/14/1885 2111 310 Salem's Church Society of the Evangelical Association of North America Twp. 96 Turner 3 07/29/1881 2105 276 Samaritan Hospital Aberdeen Brown 7 05/13/1886 2113 272 San George Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 47 Sanborn Coopertown & Turtle Mountain Rail road Co. Sanborn Barnes 9 300,000 07/22/1882 2107 108 Sanborn County Agricultural Society and Driving Park Association Diana Sanborn 5 10,000 08/02/1884 2110 395 Sanborn County Bank Woonsocket Sanborn 3 50,000 11/30/1883 2109 327 Sanborn Creamery Company Sanborn Barnes 5 1,800 03/16/1888 2116 568

Page 77 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Sanborn Farmers Alliance Elevator of Barnes County Sanborn Barnes 7 2,500 07/26/1888 2117 450 Sanborn Gun Club Sanborn Barnes 5 05/22/1884 2110 253 Sanborn Memorial Dutch Reform Church Twp. 100 Turner `4 700 08/16/1882 2107 178 Sand Creek Falls Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 750,000 10/14/1881 2106 19 Sand Creek Falls Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 500,000 09/12/1881 2105 381 Sand Creek Water Power Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/04/1887 2116 64 Sargent County Banking Company Milnor Sargent 5 50,000 08/04/1887 2116 62 Sargent County Mill Company Milnor Sargent 7 15,000 06/21/1886 2114 97 Satterfield Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 511 Sawyer Steam Plow Company Mapleton Cass 5 80,000 09/29/1885 2112 197 Scandanavian Pilgrim Baptist Church of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 12/20/1886 2114 530 Scandinavian Baptist Conference of Dakota Daneville Turner 7 11/26/1888 2118 128 Scandinavian Congregational Church of Vermillion Vermillion Clay Per Discipli 07/25/1889 2119 274 Scandinavian Lutheran Church & School Association Taopi Twp. Minnehaha 3 5,000 03/22/1886 2112 453 Scandinavian Publishing Company of South Dakota Brookings Brookings 7 10,000 08/23/1889 2119 392 Scotland Creamery Company Limited Scotland Bon Homme 5 6,000 12/17/1886 2114 516 Scotland Horse Fair and Track Association Scotland Bon Homme 8 4,000 06/21/1886 2114 95 Seabury Calkins Consolidated Mining Co. Carbonate Cam Lawrence 7 1,500,000 07/24/1885 2112 101 Second Presbyterian Church of Flandreau Flandreau Moody 3 08/31/1880 2104 368 Security and Guaranty Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-5 100,000 02/23/1889 2118 393 Security Bank Mitchell Davison 3 25,000 07/25/1885 2112 106 Security Bank Ellendale Dickey 3 25,000 12/08/1884 2111 100 Security Bank of Clark Dakota Clark Clark 5 75,000 06/05/1888 2117 222 Security Bank of Clark Dakota Clark Clark 7 Not Listed 06/27/1888 2117 306 Security Bank of Dakota Howard Miner 5 10,000 02/06/1885 2111 227 Security Bank of Tyndall Tyndall Bon Homme 7 35,000 01/03/1889 2118 242 Security Improvement Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3-15 100,000 07/27/1889 2119 310 Security Investment Company of Yankton Dakota Yankton Yankton 9 100,000 11/13/1886 2114 443 Security Life and Accident Association Plankinton Aurora 5 01/29/1889 2118 326 Security Loan & Trust Company Casselton Cass 5 50,000 06/18/1884 2110 306 Security Loan and Investment Company Casselton Cass 5 50,000 09/12/1889 2119 432 Security Mortgage & Investment Co. Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 08/22/1883 2109 149 Security Mortgage and Investment Company (acceptance of amendments) Pierre Hughes 11/08/1888 2118 102 Security Mortgage and Investment Company (increase of stock) Pierre Hughes 100,000 05/20/1887 2115 359

Page 78 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Segregated Iron Hill Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 04/21/1885 2111 431 Seventh Day Adventist Church of Badus Badus Lake 5 07/13/1884 2110 361 Seventh Day Adventists Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 03/14/1882 2106 235 Sheldon Creamery Company Sheldon Ransom 11 5,000 02/24/1888 2116 495 Sheridan Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/29/1888 2118 1 Sherman Cemetery Association Sherman Minnehaha 3 08/15/1889 2119 375 Shiloh Lodge A.F.& A. M. of Fargo Fargo Cass 3 01/09/1885 2111 149 Shiloh Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 05/22/1886 2113 437 Signal Publishing Company Pierre Hughes 3 12,000 07/06/1883 2109 66 Silver Bar Mining and Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 5 1,250,000 06/22/1887 2115 507 Silver Bar Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 375 Silver Belt Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5 1,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 577 Silver Brick Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 448 Silver Chief Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 264 Silver Coin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/14/1887 2116 1 Silver Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 9 1,250,000 12/11/1884 2111 118 Silver King Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/03/1886 2113 104 Silver Mint Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 06/18/1887 2115 500 Silver Mountain Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 276 Silver Queen Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 566 Silver Reef Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/03/1886 2113 106 Silver Ridge Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 01/06/1885 2111 141 Silver Sheen Mining Company Sturgis Lawrence 5 500,000 07/26/1887 2116 26 Silver Star gold and Silver Mining Company Terraville Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/24/1886 2113 57 Silver Treasure Mining Co. Central City Lawrence 7 1,500,000 03/24/1885 2111 356 Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church Moody Not Listed 09/13/1888 2117 511 Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church Newark Marshall Not Listed 06/01/1889 2119 11 Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church of Milnor Milnor Sargent 9 03/26/1886 2112 466 Simpson Park Association of Big Stone Lake Big Stone City Grant 11 25,000 05/07/1885 2111 486 Sinda Silver Mining & Smelting Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/29/1881 2105 349 Singapore Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 01/21/1889 2118 303 Sioux Banking Company Watertown Codington 3 25,000 03/15/1888 2116 562 Sioux Falls Abstract Title Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 250,000 08/05/1889 2119 327 Sioux Falls and Denver Railroad Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 10,000,000 09/19/1889 2119 444

Page 79 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Sioux Falls and Pacific Short Line Railroad Sioux Falls Minnehaha 6 1,000,000 05/04/1889 2119 77 Sioux Falls Bottling Works Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 15,000 05/12/1887 2115 337 Sioux Falls Brewing Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 50,000 12/27/1881 2106 93 Sioux Falls Brick Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 30,000 09/27/1883 2109 209 Sioux Falls Camp (??) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 5,000 05/05/1883 2108 282 Sioux Falls City Street Railway Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 150,000 03/22/1887 2115 179 Sioux Falls Club Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-11 06/08/1889 2119 156 Sioux Falls Congregational Ladies Aid Society Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 09/04/1888 2117 510 Sioux Falls DeSmet and Northern Railway Company DeSmet Kingsbury 13 5,000,000 06/08/1888 2117 250 Sioux Falls Driving Park Associati0on Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 20,000 02/26/1884 2110 12 Sioux Falls Electric Light & Power Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 50,000 02/06/1884 2109 460 Sioux Falls Exposition Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 03/04/1882 2106 216 Sioux Falls Fairbank & Western Railroad Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 6,000,000 11/25/1884 2111 83 Sioux Falls Fence Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 8,000 10/27/1883 2109 270 Sioux Falls Foundry & Machine Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 25,000 08/02/1884 2110 403 Sioux Falls Gas Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 `50,000 09/05/1883 2109 177 Sioux Falls Gas Light Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 50,000 05/02/1888 2117 137 Sioux Falls Granite Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 12/21/1887 2116 376 Sioux Falls Granite Company Limited Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 250,000 08/26/1889 2119 397 Sioux Falls Hail Insurance Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 100,000 02/05/1885 2111 245 Sioux Falls Insurance Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 01/28/1885 2111 197 Sioux Falls Investment and Improvement Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 100,000 08/13/1889 2119 365 Sioux Falls Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-9 50,000 03/19/1889 2118 455 Sioux Falls Jasper Stone Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 03/02/1882 2106 203 Sioux Falls Law Library Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 10/15/1885 2112 217 Sioux Falls Leader Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 25,000 05/28/1883 2108 332 Sioux Falls Leisure Hour Club Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 09/03/1883 2109 173 Sioux Falls Mutual Aid Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 12/31/1883 2109 376 Sioux Falls Mutual Aid Association (acceptance of provisions) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 12/17/1887 2116 358 Sioux Falls Printing and Supply Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5+ 20,000 02/21/1887 2115 71 Sioux Falls Public Library Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 08/04/1886 2114 253 Sioux Falls Public Library Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 02/08/1882 2106 170 Sioux Falls Publishing Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 50,000 03/02/1882 2106 205 Sioux Falls Railroad Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 100,000 05/22/1883 2108 309

Page 80 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Sioux Falls Real Estate and Improvement Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-11 250,000 02/05/1889 2118 343 Sioux Falls Safe Deposit Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5-9 15,000 11/22/1886 2114 454 Sioux Falls Savings Bank Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 50,000 10/15/1886 2114 387 Sioux Falls Savings Bank (amendment of articles) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 07/09/1888 2117 305 Sioux Falls Stock Yard Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 9 500,000 06/08/1889 2119 169 Sioux Falls University Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 06/25/1885 2112 19 Sioux Falls Water Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 06/26/1884 2110 315 Sioux Falls Water Power Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 500,000 05/20/1882 2107 3 Sioux Falls Water Power Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 9 300,000 09/18/1879 2104 148 Sioux Falls Water Power Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 9 800,000 06/01/1882 2107 24 Sioux Falls Woolen Mill Company South Sioux Fall Minnehaha 5 100,000 12/31/1888 2118 212 Sioux Falls Yankton and Denver Railroad Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 1,000,000 06/18/1889 2119 204 Sioux Falls Yankton and North Western Railway Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 13 3,000,000 07/23/1889 2119 299 Sioux Valley Loan & Trust Company Watertown Codington 3 15,000 01/23/1885 2111 186 Sisters of Mercy Yankton Yankton 12/02/1878 2104 31 Sitting Bull Places Mining Co. Sitting Bull Pennington 7 500,000 05/27/1880 2104 302 Skandavian Baptist Church of Lodi Twp. 94 Clay 3 02/13/1883 2108 106 Skandi-American Loan and Trust banking Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 10,000 07/11/1888 2117 296 Skandinavia Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sims Sims Morton 6 11/25/1885 2112 250 Skandinavian Lutheran Church of Yankton Dakota Yankton Yankton 3 04/30/1886 2113 87 Small Hopes Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 250,000 01/12/1889 2118 271 Society of the Town of Tabor Tabor Bon Homme 5 400 12/17/1888 2118 196 Socrates Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 225,000 05/19/1886 2113 368 Solberg Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Blair Jerauld 3 02/21/1887 2115 65 South Dakota Farm Agency White Lake Aurora 5 50,000 12/03/1884 2111 93 South Dakota Farm Mortgage Company Iroquois Kingsbury 5 25,000 04/25/1888 2117 124 South Dakota Investment Company Redfield Spink 11 500,000 02/20/1889 2118 389 South Dakota Investment Company Vermillion Clay 5 100,000 10/31/1889 2119 565 South Dakota Land and Improvement Company Redfield Spink 7 200,000 10/12/1889 2119 517 South Dakota Livestock Association Pierre Hughes 5 100,000 05/19/1885 2111 530 South Dakota Livestock Association (increase of stock) Pierre Hughes 5 500,000 01/24/1887 2115 7 South Dakota Livestock Company Watertown Codington 3 100,000 03/18/1889 2118 446 South Dakota Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Fargo Cass 7 02/21/1887 2115 61 South Dakota Plaining Mill Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 15,000 06/08/1889 2119 158

Page 81 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page South Dakota Publishing Company Aberdeen Brown 5 20,000 10/10/1889 2119 522 South Dakota Rapid Transit and Railway Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 100,000 05/17/1889 2119 94 South Dakota Real Estate Association Woonsocket Sanborn 4 10,000 02/16/1887 2115 56 South Dakota Scandinavian American Building and Loan Association Brookings Brookings 5 10,000,000 10/14/1889 2119 510 South Dakota State Bindery Company Madison Lake 4 15,000 04/26/1889 2119 44 South Dakota Telephone and Telegraph Company Huron Beadle 3-7 10,000 09/18/1889 2119 449 South Dakota Title Insurance and Trust Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 500,000 10/31/1889 2119 556 South Deadwood Carbonate Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 750,000 08/16/1881 2105 303 South Deadwood Hose company Deadwood Lawrence 6 25,000 09/05/1883 2109 175 South Eastern Dakota Agricultural Fair Mitchell Davison 11 09/30/1880 2104 386 South Eastern Dakota Railroad Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 1,000,000 12/02/1886 2114 475 South Eastern Dakota Telephone & Telegraph Co. Yankton Yankton 6 15,000 06/12/1882 2107 40 South Pleasant Norwegian Lutheran Church or Congregation Walcott Richland 6 07/22/1886 2114 196 South Shore Town Lot and Improvement Company Watertown Codington 4 10,000 08/08/1887 2116 79 South Sioux Falls Railroad and Rapid Transit Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 300,000 12/17/1888 2118 209 Southeastern Dakota Industrial Association Yankton Yankton 7 3,000 07/13/1883 2109 90 Southeastern Dakota Telephone & Telegraph Co. Yankton Yankton 6 60,000 11/04/1882 2107 291 Southern Black Hills Mining Company Custer City Custer 7 600,000 01/26/1888 2116 412 Southern Dakota Mining Co. Yankton Yankton 9 50,000 10/04/1884 2111 6 Southern District Pharmaceutical Association Flandreau Moody 5 03/15/1887 2115 164 Southwestern Dakota Agricultural Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 20,000 03/19/1886 2112 452 Southwestern Lumber Company Lisbon Ramsey 3 30,000 07/14/1883 2109 88 Spanish R. Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 07/20/1886 2114 188 Spearfish and Southern Railroad Company Spearfish Lawrence 9 1,000,000 02/27/1889 2118 430 Spearfish Bald Mountain and Lead City Railroad Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 500,000 02/05/1889 2118 344 Spearfish Creek Toll Road Co. Carbonate Lawrence 3 50,000 08/18/1885 2112 153 Spearfish Hose Company No. 1 Spearfish Lawrence 6 1,000 05/05/1888 2117 153 Spearfish Hotel Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 30,000 04/09/1887 2115 243 Spearfish Land and Building Association Spearfish Lawrence 5 50,000 09/24/1886 2114 359 Spearfish Milling Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 50,000 06/11/1883 2109 20 Spearfish Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 1,500,000 02/15/1884 2109 476 Spearfish Music & Rink Association Spearfish Lawrence 11 5,000 04/20/1885 2111 415 Special Payment Consolidated Gold Mining Co. Springfield Bon Homme 3 2,500,000 02/24/1883 2108 120 Specie Payment Consolidated Gold Mining Co. Springfield Bon Homme 5 25,000 11/01/1881 2106 37

Page 82 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Spencer Jaspar Stone Company Spencer McCook 9 10,000 05/18/1888 2117 186 Spink County Agricultural Association Redfield Spink 15 05/25/1882 2107 10 Spink County Bank Redfield Spink 5 50,000 04/18/1884 2110 162 Spink County Land Irrigation and Improvement Company Redfield Spink 7 100,000 09/10/1889 2119 426 Spink County Union Agricultural Society Ashton Spink 9 5,000 06/19/1885 2112 15 Spirit Mound Cemetery Association Clay county Clay 5 125 11/11/1884 2111 54 Spiritwood Grand Rapids & Devils Lake Railroad Stutsman 5 3,000,000 04/04/1883 2108 208 Spring Creek Hydraulic & Quartz Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 10/29/1883 2109 273 Spring Hill Cemetery Association Gann Valley Buffalo 3 12/13/1888 2118 172 Spring Valley Shire Horse Association Spring Valley Turner 7 4,000 08/22/1888 2117 547 Springdale Stock Ranche Springdale Ranc Fall River 3 100,000 04/06/1889 2118 505 Springwells Townsite Mill Power Company Springwells McPherson 6 250,000 11/24/1882 2107 311 Spruce Gulch Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 06/02/1886 2113 581 Squaw Creek Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 08/20/1881 2105 317 St. Aloysius Catholic Church of Sturgis Sturgis Lawrence Not Listed 06/18/1888 2117 269 St. Aloysius Church of Lisbon Lisbon Ransom 5 08/18/1886 2114 282 St. Ansgar Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Minnehaha County Taopi (twp) Minnehaha 3 01/08/1889 2118 387 St. Benedict Church Stanley Cass 4 04/11/1889 2118 522 St. Bernard's Ursuline College & Convent Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 12/31/1885 2112 326 St. Bridget's Church Walshtown Yankton 5 02/02/1884 2110 115 St. Cyril and Methodius Roman Catholic Church of Vodnang Dakota Vodnany Bon Homme 5 10/22/1888 2118 79 St. Frederick Roman Catholic Church at Frederick Frederick Brown 4 04/17/1889 2118 479 St. Gertrude's Church Menno Hutchinson 3 01/31/1884 2109 445 St. Helena's Roman Catholic Church of Ellendale Ellendale Dickey 5 05/09/1889 2118 542 St. James Catholic Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 3 07/23/1884 2110 385 St. James Protestant Episcopal Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 7 08/27/1881 2105 344 St. Johannes Mutual Aid and Benefit Association of Wahpeton, Dakota Territory Wahpeton Richland 3 07/21/1887 2116 18 St. John Baptist Roman Catholic Church St. John Rolette Not Listed 12/17/1887 2116 364 St. Johns and Immanuel's Evangelical Lutheran Church McIntosh 4 10/31/1889 2119 567 St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Concord Concord (twp) Lake 3 12/07/1886 2114 484 St. Johns Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Ash Creek Clay ? 01/11/1886 2112 366 St. John's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation at St. Thomas, Pembin St. Thomas Pembina 3 06/25/1887 2115 427 St. John's Roman Catholic Church of Ransom Ransom Sargent 5 05/09/1889 2118 538 St. Joseph Convent Presentation Order of Fargo Fargo Cass 3 12/27/1883 2109 370

Page 83 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page St. Joseph's Church of Elk Point Elk Point Union 5 03/02/1880 2104 216 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Mandan Morton 3 03/07/1885 2111 289 St. Lawrence and Miller Rail Road Company Miller Hand 6 50,000 02/14/1887 2115 54 St. Lawrence Building Co. Limited St. Lawrence Hand 5 5,000 02/29/1884 2110 19 St. Lawrence Investment Company Kimball Brule 3 1,000 08/21/1884 2110 464 St. Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church Fargo Cass 5-12 06/11/1887 2115 268 St. Mary's German Catholic Church of Salem Dakota Salem McCook 4 01/25/1887 2115 10 St. Mary's Parish of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 02/27/1883 2108 131 St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 07/26/1884 2110 377 St. Olaf Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Maple River (tw Ransom 5 03/19/1889 2118 418 St. Olaf Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Devils Lake Dakota Devils Lake Ramsey 4 05/12/1887 2115 317 St. Olafs Norck Evangeliske Lutherske Meuighed Eldorado Traill 3 02/15/1888 2116 454 St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church in Cavour Cavour Beadle 4 08/06/1884 2110 433 St. Paul Black Hills and Pacific Railway Company Aberdeen Brown 7 15,000,000 07/01/1887 2115 555 St. Paul Black Hills and Pacific Railway Company (Change of Direction of Railroa Aberdeen Brown 01/05/1889 2118 250 St. Paul Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 05/19/1886 2113 365 St. Paul Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Church Gilby Grand Forks 3 03/25/1889 2118 426 St. Paul's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Ransom Dakota Cou Big Bend/Casey Ransom Not Listed 03/19/1889 2118 415 St. Peters Congregation of Hanges Synod Twp. 93 Clay 3 04/22/1884 2110 175 St. Peters German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 02/12/1883 2108 92 St. Petri Evangelical Luthersk Mennghed Kingsbury 3 09/05/1885 2112 176 St. Procopins Roman Catholic Church of Ola Dakota Ola (twp) Brule 5 04/20/1889 2119 18 St. Theresa's Church Swan Lake Turner 3 01/31/1884 2109 440 St. Thomas Aguinas Roman Catholic Church of DeSmet DeSmet Kingsbury 4 03/10/1887 2115 100 Standing Rock Mining Company Lisbon Ransom 9 250,000 03/12/1884 2110 66 Star and Bullock Hardware Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 09/27/1886 2114 361 Star Lodge No. 9 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Lead City Lawrence 5 07/26/1887 2116 20 State Bank of Dakota Columbia Brown 7 50,000 03/12/1884 2110 63 State Bank of Emerado Emerado Grand Forks 9 11/04/1889 2119 576 State Livestock Association Plankinton Aurora 5 03/21/1889 2118 463 Steard Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/06/1886 2114 151 Sterling Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 246 Stokes Jennison Co. Watertown Codington 3 100,000 07/29/1885 2112 119 Stordals Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 11/08/1886 2114 422

Page 84 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Sturgis City and Red Rock Wagon Toll Road Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 25,000 06/18/1880 2104 315 Sturgis Fire Protective Association Sturgis Lawrence 3 5,000 06/05/1888 2117 232 Stutsman County Agricultural and Sporting Association Jamestown Stutsman 5 5,000 08/06/1887 2116 71 Stutsman County Elevator Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 24,000 08/22/1882 2107 192 Sugar Loaf Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,500,000 04/16/1886 2113 7 Suigsaas Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Prairie Farm Prairie Farm Brookings 3 05/23/1883 2108 311 Sully County Bank Onida Sully 3 25,000 09/18/1889 2119 440 Summit Mining Company Lawrence 7 100,000 03/24/1880 2104 248 Summit Silver Mining Company Spearfish City Lawrence 9 1,000,000 05/19/1886 2113 390 Sun Dance Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 250,000 12/30/1881 2106 100 Sun Extension Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 12/10/1885 2112 282 Sunny Side Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 7 2,000,000 01/21/1889 2118 307 Sunset Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 213 Superior Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 3 1,000,000 07/26/1886 2114 207 Superior Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/30/1886 2113 93 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Congregation of Brown County Riverside Brown 3 03/08/1886 2112 417 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church Spink Twp. Union 3 09/01/1879 2104 139 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 3 10/19/1883 2109 249 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of White Stone Hill White Stone Hill Sargent 3-9 08/20/1889 2119 385 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Benton Benton Minnehaha 3 07/27/1883 2109 95 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Highlands Sisseton Marshall 3-11 07/15/1889 2119 288 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Jeutland's Congregation of the Skandinavian Evan Byron (twp) Hughes Not Listed 06/20/1888 2117 277 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Salem's Congregation of Milbank Milbank Grant 3 08/02/1885 2112 143 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Tabor Congregation Georgia Grant 3-11 05/08/1886 2113 173 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Union Creek Church Sioux Valley Tw Union 3 02/20/1880 2104 205 Swedonia Parish of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Mission Synod Brandon Twp. Minnehaha 3 06/10/1882 2107 37 Sykeston Cemetery Association Sykeston Wells 5 04/11/1889 2118 531 Syndicate Block Company Redfield Spink 5 20,000 05/17/1888 2117 182 Synod of Dakota Pierre Hughes 3 11/11/1884 2111 50 Syracuse Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 250,000 04/30/1886 2113 91 Tabor Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Havanna Deuel 3+ 09/16/1886 2114 288 Tabor Church Society of the Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Association o Big Stone City Grant 3+ 12/17/1888 2118 198 Tamarack Gold and Silver Mining Company Terraville Lawrence 3 1,250,000 02/05/1889 2118 338 Tecumseh Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/03/1887 2115 137

Page 85 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Tennessee and Kentucky Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 04/26/1886 2113 59 Tenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church Pierre Hughes Per Discipli 11/02/1889 2119 575 Terisa Queen Mining Company Ruby Basin Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/17/1886 2114 178 Territorial Normal School at Milnor Dakota Milner Sargent 11 09/15/1887 2116 174 Terry's Peak Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 5,000,000 10/11/1887 2116 232 Thompson Farm Company Fargo Cass 5 50,000 03/21/1888 2117 9 Throudhjems Evangelical Lutherske Menighed of Hanges Synod Twp. 93 Yankton 3 12/27/1882 2108 18 Tilford Milling Company Tilford Lawrence 5 12,000 03/11/1889 2118 441 Times Printing Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 5,000 09/28/1881 2105 396 Tin City Mining and Milling Company Custer City Custer 3 250,000 04/27/1886 2113 69 Tongue River Regular Baptist Church of Pembina County Twp. #162 Pembina 3 12/30/1885 2112 322 Tontine Trust and Investment Company of Dakota Watertown Codington 5 100,000 04/10/1889 2118 519 Tornado Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining & Milling co. Lead City Lawrence 3 1,000,000 09/08/1883 2109 181 Tornado Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company (increase of Lead City Lawrence 5 07/05/1889 2119 249 Toronto Farmers Alliance Elevator Company Toronto Deuel 7 5,000 08/18/1888 2117 525 Tower City Milling Company Tower City Cass 9 20,000 12/02/1882 2107 320 Tower County Roller Mill Company Twp. 198 Tower 3 50,000 05/20/1884 2110 256 Tower University Tower City Cass 3 02/25/1884 2110 3 Towner County Bank Towner Grand Forks 3 50,000 08/25/1888 2117 550 Traders Banking Co. Huron Beadle 7 100,000 01/20/1885 2111 172 Traill County Livestock Association Cummings Traill 5 10,000 06/17/1889 2119 193 Traill County Mining and Improvement Company Fargo Cass 9 1,000,000 06/18/1886 2114 89 Transit Mining Company Carbonate Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 237 Travare Cattle Co Travare Roberts 3 50,000 11/10/1884 2111 47 Treasure Coach Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/03/1886 2113 114 Trent Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 284 Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Leonard Leonard Cass Not Listed 05/31/1887 2115 421 Troy Mining Company Central city Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/05/1886 2114 1 True Grit Silver Mining Company Buffalo Gap Custer 6 1,250,000 06/22/1886 2114 113 True Williams and Company Olivet Hutchinson 3 100,000 01/26/1888 2116 414 Trustees of Funds & Property of the United Brethren Church in /Dakota Milltown Armstrong 7 09/23/1880 2104 379 Trustees of the Free Methodist Church of Olivet Olivet Hutchinson 3 05/17/1887 2115 357 Trustees of the Funds and Property of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Dakot Yankton Yankton 6 10/05/1878 2104 24 Tulare Farmers Alliance Stock Company Tulare Spink 7 20,000 03/23/1885 2111 344

Page 86 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Turner County Agricultural Society Parker Turner 7 1,250 03/17/1884 2110 82 Turner County Farmers Alliance Company Parker Turner 9 20,000 05/10/1888 2117 168 Turn-vereiu Vorwaerts of Wahpeton, Dakota Territory Wahpeton Richland 3 08/02/1887 2116 51 Turtle Mountain Coal and Land Company Dunseith Rolette 7 200,000 06/21/1884 2110 312 Turtle Valley Lodge No. 61 Independent Order of Odd Fellows St. Lawrence Hand 3 09/22/1884 2110 513 Twin Brooks Cheese Manufacturing Company Twin Brooks Grant 5 2,000 05/23/1888 2117 193 Tyner Safety Spark Arrester and Manufacturing Company Aberdeen Brown 3 10,000 05/31/1887 2115 413 U. S. Grant Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/03/1886 2113 110 U. S. Grant Oil Company of Wyoming Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 49 U.S. Soldiers & Sailors Mutual Benefit Association Yankton Yankton 9 08/31/1883 2109 171 Uncle Sam Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 04/21/1885 2111 433 Uncle Sam Mining Company Lawrence 5 500,000 12/19/1883 2109 355 Union Agricultural Association Ashton Spink 7 07/28/1882 2107 123 Union Banking Company (decrease of capital stock) Aberdeen Brown 7 200,000 03/06/1889 2118 504 Union Banking Company of Aberdeen Dakota Aberdeen Brown 7 5,000,000 03/28/1888 2117 23 Union Cemetery Lincoln 5 09/24/1880 2104 383 Union Cemetery Association Bethel Clay 3 03/29/1882 2106 265 Union Cemetery Company Rural Jerauld 4 01/19/1886 2112 356 Union Congregational Church New England Ci Hettinger 3-9 08/02/1887 2116 53 Union Congregational Church Spiritwood Stutsman 3-9 06/10/1886 2114 32 Union Congregational Church of Kidder County Dawson Kidder 3 04/06/1883 2108 212 Union Congregational Church of Liberty Township County of Edmunds Ipswich Edmunds 3-9 05/23/1889 2119 110 Union County Bank Elk Point Union 3 10,000 03/08/1884 2110 56 Union County Bank of Elk Point (Certificate of Dimmution of Capitol Stock) 10,000 04/07/1886 2112 509 Union Elevator Co. of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 30,000 06/14/1882 2107 48 Union Elevator Company of Groton Groton Brown 7 5,000 11/13/1884 2111 61 Union Hill Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/11/1886 2114 59 Union League Club of Huron Huron Beadle 4 11/23/1883 2109 315 Union Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/10/1888 2117 303 Union Oil Company Central City Crook, Wyom 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 218 Union Town Presbyterian Society of Union Union Edmunds 3-11 06/07/1886 2114 13 Union Trust Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-11 100,000 03/07/1887 2115 104 United Congregational Church of Columbia Columbia Brown 3 08/03/1885 2112 141 United Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Scotland Scotland Bon Homme 5 05/27/1887 2115 394

Page 87 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page United Presbyterian Church of Sterling Sterling Burleigh 3 12/18/1885 2112 296 University of Dakota Vermillion Clay 7 05/19/1881 2105 172 Upper Missouri Navigation Company Mandan Norton 5 3,000 05/18/1883 2108 300 Valley City & Tustle Mountain Railway Co. Valley City Barnes 10 200,000 08/22/1881 2105 323 Valley City Brick & Tile Co. Valley City Barnes 5 10,000 01/16/1882 2106 120 Valley City Building Association Valley City Barnes 05/03/1882 2106 310 Valley City Building Association Valley City Barnes 5 500,000 03/17/1882 2106 249 Valley City Creamery Company Valley City Barnes 7 5,000 03/15/1888 2116 564 Valley City Lodge No. 28 I.O.O.F. Valley City Barnes 3 04/12/1884 2110 134 Valley City Telephone Company Valley City Barnes 5 15,000 08/22/1882 2107 188 Valley Springs Cemetery Association Valley Springs Minnehaha 4 05/02/1879 2104 70 Valparaiso Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 480 Van Devort and Company Custer Custer 3 10,000 11/19/1888 2118 115 Vangen Norwegian Lutheran Church Society of Yankton Yankton Yankton 3 08/13/1884 2110 446 Vermillion Cemetery Association Vermillion Clay 10 500 08/09/1882 2107 166 Vermillion Ferryboat Company Vermillion Clay 3 2,000 06/22/1883 2109 36 Vermillion Valley Horse Stock Improvement Company Vermillion Clay 5 5,000 05/09/1889 2119 80 Vermont Loan & Trust Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 10,000 03/19/1883 2108 175 Vermont Loan and Trust Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 9 75,000 09/08/1886 2114 330 Vermont Loan and Trust Company (increase of stock) Grand Forks Grand Forks 250,000 09/28/1887 2116 205 Vermont Stone Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 7 100,000 10/12/1888 2118 58 Vernon Creamery Company Vernon Davison 5 1,000 06/05/1888 2117 234 Verona Farmers Elevator Company Verona LaMoure 5 3,000 03/12/1889 2118 442 Victor Memorial Baptist Church of Cooperstown Cooperstown Greggs 3 08/12/1884 2110 444 Victoria Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 294 Victory Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 379 Vilas Union Tow Mill Co Vilas Miner 5 3,500 10/11/1884 2111 22 Vincent Methodist Episcopal Church of Minot Minot Ward Not Listed 09/24/1887 2116 196 Volga Brick Manufacturing Company Volga Brookings 5 1,500 05/26/1887 2115 387 Volga Mill Company Volga Brookings 11 30,000 02/03/1883 2108 80 Volga Park Horticultural & Forestry Association Volga Brookings 11 1,000 07/22/1885 2112 97 Vulcan Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 05/06/1886 2113 146 Wacum Ditch & Flume Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 6,000,000 12/15/1880 2105 25 Wacum Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 3,000,000 12/15/1880 2105 23

Page 88 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Wahpeton Academy Wahpeton Richland 11 07/17/1889 2119 285 Wahpeton and Eastern Dakota Railroad Co. Richland 11 100,000 07/26/1882 2107 120 Wahpeton Board of Trade Wahpeton Richland 9 04/15/1887 2115 292 Wahpeton Building Association Wahpeton Richland 11 6,000 05/09/1882 2106 320 Wahpeton Burial Association Wahpeton Richland 4 04/25/1887 2115 294 Wahpeton Library Association Wahpeton Richland 7 2,000 04/11/1888 2117 86 Wahpeton Lighting Company Wahpeton Richland 7 20,000 09/28/1887 2116 206 Wahpeton Mill & Elevator Co. Wahpeton Richland 4 30,000 01/10/1882 2106 118 Wahpeton Roller Rink Company Wahpeton Richland 3 4,000 01/09/1885 2111 147 Wahpeton Telephone Company Wahpeton Richland 9 10,000 03/31/1887 2115 213 Wahpeton Water Company Wahpeton Richland 3 50,000 03/26/1884 2110 105 Wall Lake Zion Gemunde Wall Lake Town Minnehaha 3 2110 258 Wall Street Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 2,000,000 05/27/1886 2113 502 Walsh County Agricultural Society Grafton Walsh 5 10,000 10/15/1886 2114 385 Walsh County Stock Breeders Association Grafton Walsh 3 12,000 06/11/1885 2112 1 Wanduska Improvement Company Wanduska Ramsey 5 12,000 09/21/1882 2107 231 War Eagle Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 335 Warner Elevator Company Warner Brown 5 4,000 11/14/1887 2116 304 Warner Methodist Episcopal Church Warner Brown Not Listed 09/22/1886 2114 356 Warner Mill Company (increase of stock) Warner Brown 7 40,000 06/14/1889 2119 190 Warner Mill Company of Warner Dakota Warner Brown 7 20,000 01/10/1889 2118 268 Washington Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 600,000 11/05/1880 2105 11 Watertown & Northwestern Railway Co. Brown 5 300,000 06/16/1883 2109 34 Watertown Alliance Company Watertown Codington 9 10,000 07/28/1887 2116 40 Watertown and Lake Kampeska Railway Company Watertown Codington 5 100,000 06/16/1888 2117 260 Watertown and Lake Kampeska Railway Company (appointment of power of at Watertown Codington 06/07/1888 2117 259 Watertown and Lake Shore Railroad Company Watertown Codington 5 100,000 03/28/1887 2115 201 Watertown Armory Company Watertown Codington 11 5,000 04/04/1887 2115 222 Watertown Banking and Investment Company Watertown Codington 9 200,000 03/23/1888 2117 15 Watertown Building & Loan Association Watertown Codington 9 1,000,000 11/02/1883 2109 290 Watertown Cemetery Association Watertown Codington 5 03/18/1880 2104 237 Watertown Courier News Co. Watertown Codington 7 15,000 04/03/1886 2112 500 Watertown Fuel and Gas Company Watertown Codington 7 100,000 07/23/1889 2119 301 Watertown Heating Power and Light Company Watertown Codington 5 10,000 03/18/1887 2115 177

Page 89 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Watertown Hotel Association Watertown Codington 7 25,000 06/07/1884 2110 289 Watertown Hotel Company Watertown Codington 6 50,000 11/14/1887 2116 296 Watertown Land Improvement Company Watertown Codington 6 30,000 08/30/1887 2116 126 Watertown Manufacturing Co. Watertown Codington 5 25,000 03/29/1886 2112 483 Watertown Mortgage and Trust Company Watertown Codington 7 200,000 02/21/1888 2116 488 Watertown Nursery Company Watertown Codington 3 5,000 04/26/1886 2113 63 Watertown Opera House Company Watertown Codington 7 24,000 02/05/1887 2115 38 Watertown Public Library Association Watertown Codington 7 02/28/1884 2110 17 Watertown Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 06/21/1886 2114 106 Watertown St. Paul & Minneapolis Rail Road Co. Watertown Codington 9 600,000 03/01/1881 2105 101 Watertown Telephone Company Watertown Codington 9 25,000 04/20/1887 2115 259 Watertown Town Lot Company Watertown Codington 9 17,000 02/05/1887 2115 34 Watertown Water Works Company Watertown Codington 5 150,000 03/10/1888 2116 531 Waverly Dairy Company Waverly Codington 5 2,000 04/10/1885 2111 379 Waverly Town Site Company Waverly Codington 3 3,000 09/09/1884 2110 497 Waw Beck Mining Company Elk Mountain Lawrence 5 2,500,000 09/28/1887 2116 203 Webster Chapel of Ramsey County Freshwater (tw Ramsey 4 06/30/1888 2117 334 Webster City Bank Webster Day 3 20,000 10/02/1888 2118 36 Welcome Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 05/14/1889 2119 91 Wells County Gazette Publishing Company Sykeston Wells 5 500 03/02/1889 2118 433 Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church of Powell Powell Edmunds 5 02/27/1885 2111 262 Welsh Congregational Church of Powell Powell Edmonds 3 12/01/885 2112 257 Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church of Edgeley Edgeley LaMoure Not Listed 06/05/1888 2117 228 Wesleyan Methodist Church of Northville Northville Spink 3 07/01/1882 2107 72 Wessington Cemetery Company Wessington Beadle 5 12/08/1887 2116 351 Wessington Hills Coal Mining Company Wessington Beadle 7 500,000 02/04/1888 2116 436 Wessington Methodist Episcopal Church of Wessington Wessington Beadle 3 09/14/1882 2107 209 Wessington Springs Seminary Wessington Spri Jerauld 7 10/17/1887 2116 244 West Galena Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 08/30/1881 2105 352 West Lilbon Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 51 West Missouri Colony Bureau of North Dakota Mandan Morton 3 10,000 06/02/1886 2113 545 West Salem Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 7 300,000 02/05/1887 2115 36 West Virginia Mining Company Carbonate Lawrence 5 1,500,000 08/04/1886 2114 248 West Yakua Silver Mining Co (certificate to increase capital) Deadwood Lawrence 3 3,000,000 08/24/1883 2109 152

Page 90 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Western Bank and Trust Company Sturgis Meade 9 250,000 08/19/1889 2119 383 Western Dakota Land & Mortgage Co. Rapid City Pennington 3 10,000 02/27/1885 2111 256 Western Dakota Land and Horse Company Rapid City Pennington 3-7 300,000 08/02/1888 2117 464 Western Dakota Loan & Trust Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 20,000 01/19/1886 2112 355 Western Dakota Loan and Trust Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 04/03/1888 2117 60 Western Improvement Ditch Co. Rapid City Pennington 3 10,000 09/03/1881 2105 364 Western Investment Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 01/04/1889 2118 176 Western Investment Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 05/04/1889 2119 74 Western Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 12 300,000 02/27/1885 2111 269 Western Investment Company of Aberdeen Dakota Aberdeen Brown 5 250,000 02/13/1889 2118 366 Western Land Company Watertown Codington 3 1,000,000 05/20/1887 2115 362 Western Loan & Trust Co. of Pierre Pierre Hughes 75,000 11/27/1885 2112 259 Western Loan & Trust Company Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 08/29/1883 2109 166 Western Loan & Trust Company Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 09/22/1884 2110 505 Western Loan and Banking Company Yankton Yankton 3 100,000 01/08/1887 2114 551 Western Loan and Trust Company Pierre Hughes Not Listed 1,000,000 11/13/1886 2114 442 Western Loan and Trust Company (Increase in Capital Stock) Pierre Hughes Not Listed 250,000 04/19/1886 2113 19 Western Loan and Trust Company of Pierre (certificate of acceptance) Pierre Hughes 11/10/1887 2116 291 Western Mortgage and Trust Company Wahpeton Richland 3 100,000 04/20/1887 2115 257 Western Mortgage and Trust Company (increase of stock) Wahpeton Richland 3 125,000 08/06/1887 2116 67 Western Oil and Mining Company LaMoure LaMoure 5 100,000 08/30/1888 2118 6 Western Real Estate and Trust Company of Clark Dakota Clark Clark 3 30,000 09/20/1886 2114 351 Western Surety and Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 02/25/1888 2116 501 Western Town Mortgage Company of Doland Doland Spink 5 100,000 07/31/1886 2114 220 Westminster Presbyterian Church of Devils Lake Devils Lake Ramsey 3 11/02/1883 2109 296 Wheat Exchange Bank of Willow City Dakota Willow City Bottineau 5 100,000 06/06/1889 2119 179 White Bear Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 04/26/1886 2113 67 White Farmer's Alliance Elevator Co. White Brookings 7 5,000 07/03/1885 2112 39 White Lake Bank White Lake Aurora 3 15,000 06/10/1885 2111 574 White Lake Creamery Company White Lake Aurora 3 10,000 12/03/1887 2116 344 White Lake Mill company White Lake Aurora 7 15,000 06/06/1884 2110 278 White Star Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 03/23/1886 2112 459 Whiteside Cemetery Association Whiteside (twp) Beadle 3 04/30/1887 2115 315 Whitewood and Wyoming Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 09/10/1888 2118 16

Page 91 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Whitewood Banking Company Whitewood Lawrence 5 10,000 11/02/1887 2116 335 Wilcox Lumber Company(Increase of Capital Stock) Yankton Yankton 40,000 03/19/1884 2110 89 Wilcox Lumber Co. (Cert. to Increase Capital Stk.) Yankton Yankton 55,000 03/20/1884 2110 97 Wilcox Lumber Company Yankton Yankton 3 40,000 05/09/1883 2108 290 Wilcox Lumber Company Yankton Yankton 3 25,000 09/10/1881 2105 379 Wild Rice Farm and Stock Company Hall (twp) Sargent 5 25,000 01/18/1887 2114 555 Wild West Silver Mining co Lead City Lawrence 9 1.250,000 04/08/1886 2112 520 Wildwood Cemetery Association of Salem McCook County, Dakota Territory Salem McCook 5 100 08/11/1887 2116 83 Wilkinson Consolidated Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 207 Williams Methodist Episcopal Church Westport Brown Not Listed 02/02/1888 2116 432 Willow Lake Methodist Episcopal Church Willow Lake Clark Not Listed 10/10/1888 2117 543 Willow Lake Shipping Association Willow Lake Clark 7 10,000 06/30/1888 2117 331 Wilmar & Sioux Falls Townsite Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-9 150,000 12/16/1888 2118 231 Winchester Gold and Silver Mining Company Carbonate Lawrence 6 400,000 05/19/1886 2113 363 Windsor Cattle Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 100,000 09/04/1886 2114 321 Wizard Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 411 Wolsey & Bismarck Railway Co. Wolsey Beadle 11 500,000 01/04/1886 2112 333 Wolsey Land Mining and Coal Company Wolsey Beadle 7 500,000 03/12/1888 2116 549 Women's Christian Temperance Union of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 3 08/18/1888 2117 526 Woodhull Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 382 Worthington Cemetery Association Worthing Lincoln 3 12/24/1881 2106 89 Wyoming and Dakota Western Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 08/15/1887 2116 93 Wyoming Coal Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/25/1887 2115 521 Wyoming Standard Oil Co. Central Lawrence 9 1,000,000 10/16/1885 2112 221 Yankton & LeMars Railroad Company Yankton Yankton 13 500,000 10/13/1881 2106 16 Yankton and Missouri Valley Railway Company Yankton Yankton 5 3,000,000 03/05/1887 2115 112 Yankton Artesian Well & Mining Co. Yankton Yankton 5 10,000 09/17/1880 2104 373 Yankton Artesian Well and Mining Co. Yankton Yankton 30,000` 02/14/1882 2106 180 Yankton Bank Yankton Yankton 5 25,000 06/06/1882 2107 35 Yankton Building & Loan Association Yankton Yankton 5 5,000 12/03/1885 2112 277 Yankton Coal Mining Company Yankton Yankton 10 100,000 08/27/1884 2110 472 Yankton College Yankton Yankton 9 08/30/1881 2105 354 Yankton Creamery Yankton Yankton 5 3,500 03/03/1883 2108 137 Yankton Electric Lighting Company Yankton Yankton 7 25,000 09/13/1886 2114 340

Page 92 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Yankton Ferry Company Yankton Yankton 5 8,000 10/03/1881 2105 401 Yankton Ferry Company Yankton Yankton 02/04/1882 2106 162 Yankton Fire Insurance Co. Yankton Yankton 03/03/1883 2108 136 Yankton Fire Insurance Co. Yankton Yankton 9 100,000 02/23/1883 2108 117 Yankton Heating and Plumbing Company Yankton Yankton 5 10,000 02/25/1888 2116 503 Yankton Hotel Association Yankton Yankton 11 100,000 05/31/1889 2119 134 Yankton Library Association Yankton Yankton 5 06/24/1879 2104 118 Yankton Light and Power Company Yankton Yankton 3 25,000 12/17/1888 2118 194 Yankton Linseed Oil Company Yankton Yankton 6 33,000 06/24/1889 2119 209 Yankton Loan Trust and Savings Bank Yankton Yankton 5 25,000 05/06/1887 2115 330 Yankton Packing Company Yankton Yankton 4 20,000 06/03/1884 2110 270 Yankton Pressed Brick Co. Yankton Yankton 5 24,000 03/03/1882 2106 208 Yankton Savings Bank Yankton Yankton 5 25,000 07/21/1887 2116 16 Yankton Street Railroad Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 04/23/1889 2119 33 Yankton Street Railway Company Yankton Yankton 12 10,000 03/25/1887 2115 189 Yankton Turnverein Society Yankton Yankton 11 12/24/1880 2105 39 Yankton, Okobojo and Fort Buford Rail Road Company Pierre Hughes 4 15,000,000 04/27/1883 2108 263 Yellowstone Land & Colonization Co. Yellowstone Val Billings 5 36,000 10/21/1880 2105 1 Yexa(?) Hose Company Fargo Cass 3 10,000 05/03/1886 2113 108 Yorktown Land Company Yorktown Dickey 3 25,000 08/21/1883 2109 142 Young American Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3-11 2,500,000 02/05/1889 2118 346 Young American Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 1,000,000 05/25/1886 2113 468 Young Men's Christian Association Fargo Cass 5 10/29/1886 2114 409 Young Men's Christian Association of Chamberlain Chamberlain Brule 7 12/27/1883 2109 373 Young Men's Christian Association of Deadwood Dakota Deadwood Lawrence 9 05/28/1888 2117 200 Young Peoples Missionary Association Twin Brooks Tw Grant 7 08/18/1885 2112 155 Zion Church Twin Brooks Tw Grant 5 07/18/1885 2112 90 Zion Church of Society of the Dakota Conference (trustee election) Silver Lake Lincoln 3 10/16/1886 2114 428 Zion Church of the Evangelical Association Wittenberg Hutchinson 5 01/17/1881 2105 68 Zion Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Grand Centre Grand 3 10/02/1885 2112 202 Zion Church Society of the Dakota Conference of Evangelical Association of Nor Kellerton Hamlin 3 06/28/1889 2119 220 Zion Church Society of the Dakota Conference of the Evang. Assoc. of North Am Silver Lake Lincoln 3 11/10/1886 2114 430 Zion Congregational Church of Parkston Parkston Hutchinson 3-9 10/27/1888 2118 89 Zion Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 03/25/1889 2118 421

Page 93 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Alphabetical 11/26/2014 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Zion Presbyterian Society of Edmunds County Hosmer Edmunds 3-11 03/25/1889 2118 470 Zion's Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Yankton Yankton 3 05/23/1881 2105 195 Zions church Society of Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Assoc. of North A Aberdeen Brown 3+ 05/17/1887 2115 353 Zoar Church of the Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Association of North A Groton Brown 3+ 07/07/1888 2117 343

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