Arizona republican., 1901-05-17

| Maricopa County, Arizona Territory. I with q branch office in the City of Los Angeles. Los Angeles County, State of | California.
 | Art 2. The general nature of the
 business of the said Company shall be
 mining. drilling. boring for, and de- velopng 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 l lines to conduct oil, water or other sub
 stances. 6"ecting tanks, refineries. der- rlcISs. mact ery, or other works for producing. Landing 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 general merchandise
 business, and to do any and every act
 or thing necessary or needful to con- duct general oil business either in Arizona. or any state or territory of the | United States.
 B. That the amount of the capital | lNN'N'N o' ttS odiu Sndll be | s5oO.OOO. and the number of shares into which 1t is divided is 500,05o shares. of
 the par value of $1.00 each, said stock
 upon issuance to be paid for in fup. in l cash or an equivalent in property con- veyed to said company, ani that when
 so issued shall be forever non-assass- able. That the amount of said stock which has been actually subscribed is
 seventy shares. and seventy dollars
 S'O.OO paid therefor to-wit:
 E. w. Potter, ten shares $l0 .00
 F. A. Bancroft, 10 shares. ... 10 .O0 T. w. Aisbitt. 10 shares ... 10 .O0 C. II. Hoge, 10 shares. .... lO. co r. J. keeler, 10 shares. ......... 10 .O0
 L. S. Potter. 10 shares. .. 10 .00
 M. l.. Crawford. 10 shares. 10. co Art. 4. 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. 5 The affairs of this corpora-
 tion 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. H. Hoge. P. J. Keeler.
 l.. $. Potter, and M. l.. Crawford shall act as such Directors.
 Art. 6. The highest amount of in-
 debtedness or liabilities 10 which this Company shall subject itself shall be
 the amount of s1500O0.
 Art. :. The private properties of the
 stockholders of this Corporation shall
 be exempt from the debts of this cor poration.
 In witness whereof We have hereun-
 to set our hands and seals this 3Oth 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 Angeles, State of California, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared F. w. Potter and T. w. Aisbitt, known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the within instrument, and they &C., [ knowledged that they executed the same.
 In 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 the secretary of the Territory of Arizona, this ,6th day
 of May, A. D., 1901. at p. m. c. H. AKERS, Secretary of Arizona. (First Publication May 13)