Arizona republican., 1902-05-14
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE THE EUREKA OIL AND GAS COM
 PANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE
 PRESENTS. That we. whose hands are Ihereunto affixed. do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of
 forming a corporation under the laws
 of the Territory of Arizona, and to that
 end make the following statement:
 First: The names Of the corporatOrs
 are: T. k. Wilkins and J. w. Davis. and the name of the corporation shall
 be THE EUREKA OIL X GAS COM lPANY. The principal place in which the business of said corporation within
 the Territory of Arizona is to be trans
 acted is Phoenix. Marcopa County. Arizona. and the principal place of
 business of said corporation outside the Territory of Arizona shall be the City
 of Lima. in the State of Ohio. 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 esrab ablished by the Board of Di- rectors.
 Second: The general nature of the business proposed to be. transacted by
 this corporation is as follows, to-wit: | To purchase, lease. bond. locate or otherwise acquire, own, exchange, sell
 or otherwise dispose of. pledge, mort gage, hypothecate and deal in real es- tate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines, mining claims, oil
 lands. mineral lands, oil. gas, asphal-
 tum, petroleum, water and water rights and machinery, and to work, mine, eX-
 plore, operate and develop the same; to do general real estate, manufac-
 turing and mercantile business; to own, handle and control letters patent and inventions 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 capital stock and other securities and obliga-
 tions any and all rights, powers and
 privileges of individual owners thereof. including the right to vote upon any
 shares of stock held by it to the same
 extent that q natural person might or
 could do, and in general to do all things
 necessary to the proper conduct of the | business of this corporation in 1 the Territory and elsewhere, not
 inconsistent with the laws of the Unit ed States and the Territory of Arizona. Third: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be Three Million dollars CS3. .000 O00) di- vided into Three Million shares of the par value of One dollar ($1.O0) 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 CT by the sale and trans | fer to it of real or personal property,
 for the uses and purposes of said cor poratiOn. in payment for which shares of the capital stock of said corporation may be issued. and the capital stock so l issued shall thereupon and thereby be- come and be fully paid up and non assessa ble and in the absence of aetual 1 fraud in the transact the judgment of the Directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 Fourth: The time or the commence ment of this corporation shall be the l date of the filing of these Articles of | Incorporation in the office Oc the Sec retary of Arizona. and the termination
 thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 Fifth: The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by Board of Six | (6) Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected. J. ] w. Davis. T. K. Wilkins. A. D. Miller l IT. E. Williamson, B. C. Zaurot. s A | Sellers. Thereafter the Board of Di- rectors shall be elected from among the Stockholders as the bylaws of the cor poration may provide.
 Sixth: The highest amount of in debtedress or liability. direct or con- | tingent. to which this corporation is at any time subject shall be Twenty-Five | Thousand dollars ($25C00)
 Seventh: The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts Of any kind whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. We have hereunto set our hands and seals this Third day of May, 1902.
 J. w. DAVIS. (SealO T. K. WILKINS. (Seal) State of Ohio
 County of Allen, ss.
 On this 3rd day of May. in the year 1 1902, before me, II. P. Williamson. a Notary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid residing therein. duly commissioned and sworn. personally appeared J. W. Davis and T. K Will l llins, known to me to be the persons described in. whose names are sub scribed to and who executed the an- neXed instrument, and they acknowl- edged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and considera- tions therein expressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, at my office in the said State and County, the day and year last above written.
 (Notary Seal)
 II. r. WILLIAMSON. Notary Public. AIien County. Ohio.
 My commission expires June 5th 1903. uRsas-A fi,:w yOb.S F Gvb famb Territory of Arizona,
 County Of Maricopa, ss.
 l. B. F. AIcFall, County Recorder ir and for the County and Territory afore- said, hereby certify that l have com pared the foregoing copy with the orig inal Articles of Incorpora ton of the Eureka Oil and Gas Company filed and recorded in my office Cn the Sth day of May, 1902. in Book No. 10 of Articles of Incorporation at Page -. and that the same is q full true and corrct copy