Mohave County miner., 1909-06-12
State of West Virginia
CERTIEICITE OF INCORPORATION.

CERTIFICITE OF INCORPORATION.
 I,C. w. SWISHER, Secretary of State of the state of west Virginia, do hereby certify that an agreement duly acknowledged and ac- companleu by the proper da,its, has been this day delivered tu me, wnicn agreement IS in words and figures following:
 I. The undersigned agree to become a cor poratlon by the name of UNION CARBIDE
 SALES COMPANY.
 IT. The principal place of business of said corporation shall be located in the City of Chi cago in the County of Cook and State of Hi nuis. Said corporation wlli have no chief works
 III The objects and purposes for which this corporation is formed are us follows:
 l. To purchase, acquire, store, use, sell and otherwise deal Tn and dispose of. either directly or indirectly by means or agents or otherwise calcium carbide and all other gas producing materials. and gas especially acety lene gas, and all machinery, apparatus. fixtures. appli ances and equipment Tor any purposes relating in any manner to the use oi calcium carDlae and acetylene or other gas; also any and all metallurglcal, electro-metallurgical, chemical and electro. chemical products and compound I, c.udng any and all eiementary substances anu any anu al alloys and cumpounus there uf, aud any and all articles consisting, or partly consisting of the foregoing or any of them, and any and all products of the foregoing or any Of them.
 9 To construct, purchase, lease and other wise acquire, shops, stores, warehouses and other buildings and to maintain, use and Up. crate the same for any purposes of the com. pany and to lease and sell or otherwise dis. pose of the same.
 B. To apply for, obtain, register, purchase or otherwise acquire, and to hold, use, own, op- crate and introduce and to sell, assign, or | otherwise dispose of, any and all trade marks, | trade names, patents, applicatlou for patt nt, patent rights, licenses, inventions, improve. ments and processes used in connection with or secured under letters patent of the United States, or elsewhere or othe wise, and to use. exercise, develop. grant licenses in respect of, | or otherwise to turn to account the foregoing, | nr U nr saith nf nrfr | or rights.
 f. To acquire by purchase, subscription or otherwise, and to hold and dispose of, proper | ties. rights goodwill and other assets, stock, bonds or any other fiscal obligations of any | corporation formed for. or now or hereafter en- gagged in or pursuing any one more Ui the kinds of business purposes, objec s. or opera | tions above indicated, or owning or hJldi Jg any property of any kind herein mentioned. | 5. To hold for investment or otherwise, to use, sell or dispose of any stocks, bonds or other nScal UDligallonS of any other corpora | tiun, and while owner ol any such stocks, bonds or other obligations, to exercise all the right. | powers and privileges of ownership thereof, | and to exercise any and all voting power, thereon.
 G. To construct, purchase lease or otherwise acquire, and to maintain, use, employ aud ,p- crate and to lease and sell, or otherwise d S. | pose oI all machinery apparatus, fixtures, ap planceS and equipment relating in any m; nner | to the storage use and sale of calcium carbide | and all other gas producing materials | eSsary desirable or convenient Tn furtherance of any purposes and objects hei einabove set | forth
 z. The object or purp ses of the company is from time to time to uU any oLe more, or all
 of the acts herein set forth, and it is the inten lion that the objects and purposes specified in | any and all of the items of this clause GID of | this certificate of incorporation shall be re-
 garded as independent objects and purposes. | The compal my also conduct it's business
 in other tates and in territories and de
 pendences 0. the United states, and in foreign | countries and may have branch offices in tnt | City of New York ILe State oi New York.
 or in the City of Niagal f alls in the state of | New York, or in each, or elsewhere, and keep | It's books outside the State of West Virginia, | except as otherwise may be provided by law. | ". The amount of the total authorized cap
 tal stock of said corporation shall be Three
 Hundred Thousand Dollars (SSuOUOD winch
 shall be divided into three thousand (3OUQ)
 shares Of the par value of one hundred dollars | (SlOO each. of which authorized capital stock | the amount of thirty thousand (SSO,OOO) has
 been subscribed, and the .mount oi thi ty
 thousand dollars (S3O,0OO) has been paid | V. he names ana post office addresses of | incorporators and the number of shares oi
 stock subscribed for by each are as follows: | Post Office No. of Total Address Shares No. | Common Shares | Names Stock
 S. s. Jackson 777 East Sixty-ninth 6O 60 Place, hicago. Illinois
 Benjamin oShea6O37 CalumetAv'ue 60 60 | Chicago, Illinois l J. | Chicago, Illinois
 E. E. White, 26S So Claremont Ave. 60 60
 Fred l.. Blackinton. $50 Lake Avne 60 60 | Wilmette, Illinois | VI. Tbs corporation is to expire in fifty (50)
 yea fir, m the date of this certificate of incor- | portion
 | VII. In furtherance and not in limitation of | the general pow.,s conferred by the laws of | the state of West Nuh mia, and of the objects
 and pu poses as herelnaou,e C stated, 1t is here | by expressly provided that thIs company shall | have also the following powers that is to say, | to do any and all of the things set fortu hs ob- | jectS and purposes in clause III hereof, to Iue same extent and as fully as natural persons
 might or could do
 Given under our hands this 9th day of March | A. D. 1908. J S. JAI SON, l BENJAMIN O'SHEA, JESSE J KICKS, | E E. WHITE, | FRED L. BLACkINTON. | WHEREFORE, The corporators named in the | said Agreement, and who have signed the same. | and their successors and assigns are hereby | declared to be from this date until the eleventh | day of March, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty | Eight. corporation by the name and for the
 purposes set forth in said Agreement.
 Given under my hand and Great Seal Of the
 said State at the City of Charleston. this
 Eleventh day of March, Nineteen Hundred and Eight. C; w. SWISHER, lSeal] Secretary of State.
 CERTIFICATE UNDER SECTION 9O6 REVISED
 STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES.
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, | STATE OF N EST VIRGINIA,
 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
 State of West Virginia. being the officer who
 under the constitution and laws of said State
 is authorized to issue certificates of incorpora
 tion of all companies incorporated under the
 laws there of, and being the officer authorized
 to issue certificates certifying changes in
 amendments to such certificates of incOrpora