Arizona republican., 1900-08-07
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the OIL AND FUEL COM PANY OF SAN FRANCISCO, GAL.
 (July ?, 19OO.)

Know All Men by These Presents: That we, the undersigned, being desir- ous of associating ourselves together for the purpose of becoming incorpo- rated, do hlreby under the provision of Title F of the revised statutes of the Territory of Arizona, so associate our selves. and for such purpose by hereby adopting the following articles of in corporation, to-wit:
 Article l. The names of the incor- porators hereof, are the following, to- wit:
 Geo. w. Howard of San Francisco, California
 H. T. Waite of Oakland, California. P. H. Soule of San Francisco, Cali fornia.
 c. A. Laying of Los Angeles, Califor- mia.
 H. W. Cottle of Escondido, Califor- nia
 The name of the corporation shall be the Phoenix Oil and Fuel Company of San Francisco. Cal'' The corporation shall have two prin- cipal places of business, one being in the city of Phoenix, County of Mari copa, Territory of Arizona, tand the other in the city of San Francisco, County of Sa n Francisco, State of Cal ifornia.
 Article ?. The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted is:
 First-To acquire by purchase, lease location or otherwise, real and per sonal property, particularly such as may be deemed useful or convenient for the purposes of developing oil, gas or other minerals, and to let, improve, hypothecate, sell, lease or otherwise enjoy or disr ose of the same.
 Second-To construct wells, tunnels or other means. for the development of oil. gas or other minerals, and to ex- tract from the ground oil, gas or other minerals and to use, sell, dispose of or otherwise enjoy the same. Third-Tc construct roads pipelines for. water, oil or gas, or other works that may be necessary for the purpose of carrying on such business as the cor poration may desire to become engaged in.
 Fourth-To purchase, use, sell or oth- erwise deal In oil. gas or other min- erals, or stock of oil companies, or ma- chinery incidental to the use of any Of the purposes herein indicated. Fifth-To do any and all lawful acts that may be necessary, convenient or desirable in order to carry out the gen. eral purpose herein indicated. Article 3-The capital stock of the corporation shall be the sum of Six Hundred Thousand CSG0O, 00O) Dollars. which shall be divided into Six Hund- red Thousand shares of the par value of One (s1.00) Dollar each, Three Hundred Thousand ($3OO, ,OOO) Dollars, of which has been subscribed, and the time when and the conditions upon which it is to be paid in, are as fol- 1 lows, tO-wit:
 The corporators shall transfer to the corporation certain lands and lease or leases upon certain other lands, or mineral claims which are hereby ap- praised and valued at the sum of Three Hundred Thousand ($3000OO) Dollar, and upon the execution of a good and sufficient deed, lease or leases thereto the corporation shall issue it's receipt in full for the entire amount of pay
 ments upon the said Three Hundred Thousand ($3O0 O00) Dollars of capital stock. The remainder of the stock shall be disposed of within | twenty years from the date of organi- zation in the manner and for the con- sideration placed upon the same by the ! board of directors of said corporation and whenever receipt or acknowledg. ment of the corporation shall be given or made of the full payment upon any stock, the same shall thereafter be deemed fully paid and forever non assessable.
 Article 4. The time of commence ment of the corporation shall be when these articles are filed with the county recorder of the County of Maricopa, Territory of Arizona, and the termina-
 ton of the corporation shall be Twenty-Five (25) years thereafter.
 Article 5. The corporate powers of