Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-02-09
Articles of Incorporation
OF THE
Bernaliuo Oil Company

~. S. Internal Revenue Stamp, ncents,
duly cancelled on original-l
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
That we, the undersigned. have this day vol
UNFAIRLY associated ourselves together for
the purpose of forming q corporation under
the laws of the Territory of Arizona; and
we do hereby adopt the following Articles of
Interpretations:
FIRST.
That the names of the incorporators of
said company are Ernest Riall and James G.
May.
shall be Bernaiillo Oil Company.
That the principal place OF bpsines of said
eompanXy, " IS S and shall .b be T;' THoib;rook' in the
zona. But he directors of said company
may from time to time establish and mairl-
tain Offices for the transaction of business
in such other places within or without the
Territory they may deem proper. and the
same change or discontinue. at pleasure:
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 county of
Navajo and any other counties in the Ter
ritory of Arizona, and in the county of Ber-
nalillo and any other counties in the Terri
tory. of New Mexico, and i'll the State of
I California and in any other state terri
tory of the United States by purchase,
lease, location, appropriation or otherwise,
and the prospecting for, and developing in,
such lands, and producing and Saving there
from, petroleum, naptha, and oil of alllxinds,
natural gas, asphaltum coal and othe: 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 aud
other reservoirs, pipe lines and other con-
duits, retneries, distilleries and other manu-
factories, sheds, warehouses, and other
buildings and structures, apparatus and ap-
Mi r. fIsIn
! light and power plants and systems of cleo
! trio wires, and telephone lines, for the pur-
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
| wise dispo ing Of all or any part of any
lands acquired for the purposes above men,
toned or otherwise; the ing, selling and
dealing in oil of all kinds; the building or
otherwise acquiring, owning, carrying on,
and conducting, of hotels, stores and shops;
dealing in all sorts of goods. wares and mer-
chandise AMI carrying on all kinds of me-
chanical trades; the carrying on OF, agricul
1 ture in any all branches; the doing and
! tran saction of any business thing which
may be beneficial, useful or convenient to or
I 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 or other obliga-
or corporations for whatever purpose or
wheresoeyer 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 m illion 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 Ren-
dition of services or performance of labor
and discharge of any obligation obliga-
-tiops 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 pon- -assessable,