Arizona republican., 1902-12-07
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE NATIONAL FUEL COMPANY.

Know All Men By These Presents, That We. whose hands are hereunto af- fixed. do hereby associate ourselves to- gether for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Ter ritory of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement:
 First: The names of the corporators are: William A. Simmons, Charles P. Simmons and NJ. K. Gold, and the name of the corporation shall be the National Fuel Company. The principal place in which the business of said corporation within the Territory of Arizona is to be transacted is Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, and the principal place of business of said corporation outside the Territory of Arizona shail be the City of New York in the State of New York, at which meetings of the Board of Directors may be held, and the corporation may have such branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona as may be estab- lished by the Board of Directors.
 Second; The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows, to-wit: To make contracts; to purchase. lease, bond, locate or otherwise acc,.ire. own, exchange, sell or otherwise dis pose of. pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines. min ing claims, oil lands, mineral lands, oil, gas, asphaltum. petroleum. asbes- tos, salt, water and water rights and machinery, and to work, mine, explore, operate and develop the same; to do a general real estate, manufacturing and mercantile business; to own, handle and control letters patent and inven- tions and shares of capital stock of other corporations; to borrow money and execute notes, bonds. mortgages. or deeds of trust to secure the same, and to exercise in respect of all such bonds, mortgages, notes, shares of cap ital stock and other securities and ob- legations any and all rights, powers and privileges of individual owners there of, including the right to vote upon any shares of stock held by it to the same extent that a natural person might or could do; and in general to do all things necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this corpo- ration in the Territory and elsewhere not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the Territory of Ari- zona.
 Third: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be One hundred thousand dollars ($1OO, ,OOO), divided into ten thousand shares of the par value of Ten dollars ($10.0O) each. At such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct. said capital stock shall be paid into this corporation either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said corporation, in pay ment for which shares of the capital stock of said corporation may be is- sued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non- assess able, and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Directors as to the value of the prop erty purchased shall be conclusive.
 Fourth: The time of the commence ment of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the Sec retary of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 Fifth: The affairs of this corpora tion shall be conducted by a Board ol five Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: Will liam A, Simmons, Charles P. Simmons