Mohave County miner., 1909-07-10
State of West Virginia
CERTIFIC.ITE OF INCORPORATION


 I,C. w. SWlSHER, Secretary of State of | that an agreement duly acknowledged and ac- companled by the proper attidavits, has been this day delivered to me, wnlcn agreement IS in words and figures following: i l. The undersigned agree to become cor poratlon by the name of UNION CARBIDE SALES COMPANY.
 Il. 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 nols. Salu corporation will have no chlef works. III. The obJecls and purposes for which this corporation Is formed are follows: l. To purchase, acquire, store use, sell, and otherwise deai In and dispose of. either directly or indirectly by means of agents or otherwise, calcium Car oide all other gas producing materials. and gds especially acetylene gas, ana all machinery, apparatus. fixtures. appli- ances and equipment Tor any purposes relating in any manner to the use or calcium carDlue and aceLylene or other gas; also any and all metallurglcal, electrO-metallurgical, chemical and electro. chemical products ana compound, lLcludlng any and all elementary substances, and any ana all alloys and compounds there of, and any and all arJicles consisting, or partly consisting of the foregoing or any of them, and any and all products of the foregoing or any or them.
 9 To construct purchase. lease and other wise acquire, shops, stores, warehouses and other buildings, and to maintain, use and op- 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 application for pate 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 othel wiSe and to use. exercise, develop. grant licenses in respect of, or otherwise to turn to account the foregoing, them. or rights.
 I. 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 eu- gagged in or pursuing any one or more of the kinds of business, purposes, objecIs or opera tionS above indicated, or owning or holding any property of any kind herein mentioned.
 3. To hold for investment or otherwise, to use, sell or dispose of any StockS bonds or other fiscal obligations of auy other corpora tion, and while owner of 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 powers thereon.
 6. To construct purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, and to maintain, use, employ and ,p- crate, and to lease and sell, or otherwise dis- pose of all machinery, apparatus, fixtures, ap pllanceS and equipment relating in any manner to the storage, use and sale of calcium carbide and all other gas producing materials or nee eSsary, desirable or convenient in furtherance of any purposes and objects hereinabove set forth
 z. The object or purposes of the company is from time to time to do any oLe or 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 tins c-rtihcate Uf incorporation shall be re- garded as independent objects and purposes. me company may also conduct it's business in other States, aud in territories and de pendencies of the United states and in foreign countries and may have branch otfices in the City of New York in the State of New York, or in the City of Niagara Falls in the state of New York; or Tn 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 ital stock of said corporation shall be Three Hundred Thousand Dollars (SSUO,000) which shall be divided into three thousand (3,000) shares of the par value of one hundred dollars (SlOu) each. of which authorized capital stock the amount of thirty thousand (S30O00) has been subscribed, and the amount of thiI ty thousand dollars (S3O0O0) has been paid.
 V. l he names and post office addresses of incorporators and the number of shares of stock subscribed for by each are as follows:
 Post Ottice No. of Total
 Address Shares No
 Common Shares Names Stock $. $. Jackson TT East Sixty-ninth 60 60
 Place, ( hicagu. IlliuOS Benjamin O'Shea,6O3 CalumetAv'ue 60 60
 Chicago, Illinois Jessie J. Kicks, l522 Windsor Av'ne 60 6U
 Chicago, Illinois
 E. E White, 268 So. Claremont Ave. 60 60 Fred l.. Blackinton. $50 Lake Av'ne 60 60
 Wilmette, Illinois
 VI. This corporation is to expire in fifty (50) yea from the date of this certificate of incor- portion
 VII In furtherance and not in limitation of the general powers conferred by the laws of the State of West Virginia, and of the objects aud purposes as hereinabove stated, it is here Dv eYnrpSSlV DrOVidp6 that this shall have also the following powers, that is to say, to do any and all of the things set forth as ob- Jects and purposes in clause III hereof to the same extent aud as fully as natural persons might or could do.
 Given under our hands this 9th day of March A. D. 1908. J S. JACK ,ON,
 BENJAMIN O'SHEA,
 JESSEJ 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 a corporation by the name aud for the purposes set forth in said Agreement.
 Given under my hand and Great Seal Of the sad State at the City of Charleston. this Eleventh day of March, Nineteen Hundred and Eight. c. w. SWISHER,
 Seal Secretary of State. CERTIFICATE UNDER SECTION 9O6 REVISED
 STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES.
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
 STATE OF EST VIRGINIA,
 OFFICE OF THS SECRETARY OF STATE. l, Stuart F. Reed Secretary of State Of the 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 thereof, and being the officer authorized to issue certificates certifying changes in amendments to such certificates of incorpora- tiun, and being the officer who is keeper of all the records and papers relaxing to the erection of such incOrpOrated cOmpanleS and of changes