Holbrook argus., 1901-02-16
Articles of Incorporation
OF THE
BernaInO Oil Company

III. S. Internal Revenue Staaap, Ten Cents,
duly Cancelled on originaL]
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PEEsENrs=
That we, the undersigned. have this day vol
UNFAIRLY associated ourselves together for
the purpose of forming a corporation under
we do hereby adopt the following Articles of
Interpretations;
FIRST.
That the names of the incorporaters of
said company are Ernest Riall and James C.
That the name of said corporation i and
shall be Bernslillo Oil Company.
company is and shall be Holbrook in the
county of Navajo, in the Territory of Ari-
zona: But the directors of said company
may from time to time establish and main
tain Offices for the transaction of business
in such other places within or without the
Change oE at
and meetings of the Board of Directors of
said company, both regular and special, may
be held outside of the limits of the Territory
of Arizona.
The general nature of the business pro-
posed to be transacted by said company is
| the acquisition of lands in the couaty of
Navajo and any other counties in the Ter
ritory of Arizona aud in the county of Ber-
nalillo and any other couR4ies in the Terri
tory of New Mexico, and in the State of
California and in any other state or terri
tory of the United States, by purchase,
| lease, location, appropriation or OCherW1Se,
and the prospecting for. and developing in,
such lands, and prodacing1aHd saving there
from, petroleum, napthas and oil of allkinds,
natural gas, asphaltum, coal and OtAer min
eral substances; the purchase, lease or other
acquisition or construction of, and the
equipment and operation of, boring and
drilling plants and apparatus, tanks and
other reservoirs, pipe lines and other con-
duits. refineries distilleries and other manu-
| factories, sheds, warehouses, and other
! buildings and structures apparatus and ap-
pliances. railways and tramways, electric
tric m e. wires. ire and teiephene % lines for the BUR
poses of mining, producing, storing. trans
! porting, refining distilling or otherwise
treating, and marketing and disposing of:
oil and other mineral substances for said
company or for other persons; the selling,
mortgaging, subletting. leasing or other
lands acquired for the purposes above men
toned or otherwise the buying, selling and
| otherwise acquiring. owning. carrying on,
and conducting. of hotels, stores and shops;
chsndise, and carrying on all kinds of me-
chanical trades; the carrying on of agricui :
ture in any or all branches; the doing and
transaction of any business or thing which
may be beneficial useful or convenient to or
for the carrying out of any of the purposes
above mentioned: and the acquisition, sale
or pledge of and disposing in any manner of
shares of stock in or bonds other obliga-
tions or securities of any other corporation
| or corporations for whatever purpose or
wheresoever the same may have been or
may be Incorporated.
THIRD.
That the amount of the capital stock is
| and shall be Five Million Dollars, divided
into five million shares of the par value of
one dollar per share, which may be paid in
at once or from time to time, and in cash as
called for by the directors of said Company
or by the conveyance, transfer or delivery to
said Company of property which may be
purchased by said Company, or by the rem
ditiOn of services or performance of labor
for said Company, or by the satisfaction
and discharge of any obligation obliga-
tions which may be incurred by said Com
pany, or in any other lawful manner which
may be determined upon by the directors of
said Company. All shares of stock when is
sued shall be fully paid, and the same shall
be forever non-assessnble.