Arizona republican., 1901-05-14

with branch office in the City of Los Angeles. Los Angeles County State of California
 Art. 9 The general nature of the business of the said Company shall be mining. drilling. boring for. and de- veloping crude or other oil. petroleum, gas. asphaltum or other voluble or hydro-carbon substances: buying. sell ing. leasing. mortgaging, owning or holding mineral or other lands or per sonal property. laying pipes and pipe lines to conduct oil, water or other sub stances, erecting tanks. refineries. der ricks. ma hinerv. or other works for producing, fa- Hing or treating said products. building roads. tramways. railroads or canals from the said com pany's properties to some river. rail- road or highway, owning, conducting and operating a general merchandise business, and to do any and every act or thing necessary or needful to con duct a general oil business either in Arizona. or any state or territory of the United States.
 3. That the amount of the capital stock of the said corporation shall be $500, 900. and the number Of shares into which it is divided Is 50O.0oe shares. of the par value of $1.00 each, said stock upon issuance to be paid for in fuli, in cash or an equivalent in property con- veyed to said company. ani that when so issued shall be forever non- asaess- able. That the amount of said stock which has been actually subscribed is seventy shares. and seventy dollars ($700O paid therefor to-wit
 F.. w. Potter. ten shares. .$l0 .00 F. A. Bancroft. 10 shares. 1000 T. w. Aisbitt. 10 shares. .......... 1000 c. H. Hoge. 10 shares. s............. 1000 P. J. Keeler, 10 shares. ............ 1000 l.. s. Potter, 10 shares. 1000 M. l.. Crawford. 10 shares. ........ 1000 Art 1. This Corporation shall com mence business when these articles of incorporation are filed with the County Recorder of Phoenix, Territory of Ari- zona and it shall continue for twenty five years thereafter
 Art. ,. The affairs of this corpora ton shall be conducted by Board of Directors composed of seven members who are stockholders and who shall be elected annually on the fourth Tuesday of April of each year, and until so elected E. w. Potter. F. A. Bancroft. T. w. Aisbitt, c. II. Hoge. P. J. Keeler. l.. g. Potter. and NJ. l.. Crawford shall act as such Directors.
 Art. G. The highest amount of in- debtednese or liabilities 10 which this Company shall subject itself shall be the amount of s150.000.
 Art. 7 The private properties of the l-a~ ~y.t~ .c IL -t. Hxz ut..,Il be exempt from the debts of this cor poration.
 In witness whereof We have hereun- to set our hands and seals this 30th day of April, A. D. nineteen hundred and one.
 F.. W. POTTER. (Seal)
 T. w. AISBITT. (Seal) State of California, County of Los An
 geles, ss.
 On this 2d day of May, in the year one thousand nine hundred and one. be- fore me- Elmer L. Kincaid, "a Notary , Public in and for said County of Los i Angeles. State of California, residing therein duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared E. W. Potter and T. w. Aisbitt, known to me to be the persons whose names arc subscribed , to the within instrument, and they ae- | knowledged that they executed the same.
 1 Tn witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first ! above written. (Seal.) ELMER L. KINCAID. Notary Public in and for said County of Los Angeles. State of California. Ten ct. I. R. Stp. Cncld.
 Filed and recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona. the 9th day of May, 1901. Filed in the office of ths secretary of the Territory of Arizona, this 9th day of May, A. D., 1901. at D. m. c. H. AKERS. Secretary of Arizona. (First Publication May 13.)