Mohave County miner., 1909-06-26
State of West Virginia
CERTIEICITE OF INCORPORATION.

State ot West virginia CERTIFICLTE OF INCORPORATION. Lew. SwlSHER, Secretary of State of
 the state of West Virginia, do hereby certify
 that sn agreement duly acknowledged and ac- | companied by the proper aihdafits, has been this day delivered to me- Whicn agreement IS in words and figures following: i I. The undersigned agree to become cor poration by the name of UNION CARBlDE SALES COMPANY.
 II. The principal place of business of said corporation shall be located in the City of Chi cagO, in the Couuty of Cook and State of Hi
 nols. Said corporation will have no chef works III. The objects and purposes for which this
 corporation Is formed are as follows: l. To purchase, acquire store, use, sell and otherwise dea Tn and dispose oi. either directly or indirectly by means of agents or otherwise, calcium car oide and all other gas producing
 materials. and gas, especially acetylene gas, and all machinery, apparatus. fixtures. appll- ances and eluipment Tor any purposes relating in any manner to the use of calcium carDiue and ace, e,ylene or other gas also any and all metallurglcal electro-metallurgical, chemical and electro. chemical products and compound, il cluding any and all elementary substances, anu any anu all alloys and compounds there of, and any and all articles consisting, or
 partly consisting of the foregoing or any of them, and any aud all products of the foregoing or any of them.
 ,. To construct. purchase. lease and other,
 wise acquire, shops, StOres warehouses and other buildings and to maintain, use aud Up- crate the same for any purposes of the com. pany and to lease and sell or otherwise dis. pose of the same.
 g. 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 trace marks, trade names, patents, applcatioh for patt nt, patent rights licenses, inventions, improve meutS and processes used in connection with or secured under letters patent of the United States, or elsewhere or otherwise, and to use. ay Enpnsps n nf or otherwise to turn to account the foregoing, or any or either of them, or any such property or rights.
 1. 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 or more of the kinds of business, purposes. objec s. or opera tions above indicated, or owning or holdiug any property of any kind herein mentioned.
 3. To hold for investment otherwise, to use, sell or dispose of any stocks bonds or other nscal obligations of any other corpora tion, ana 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 aud tp- crate, and to lease and sell, or otherwise ds- pose of all machinery, apparatus, fixtures, ap plianceS 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 hereinaDove set forth
 z. The object 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 s the inten tion that the objects and purposes specified in any and all of the items of this clause lIIl) of this certificate of incorporation shall be re- garded us independent objects and purposes. The cOmDAnV also cpnduct huSineSS in other States, and in territories and de pendencies of the United states, and in foreign
 countries and may have branch offices in the City of New York in the State of New York or in the City of Niagara Falls in the state New York, or in each, or elsewhere, and keep
 its books outside the State of West Nrgin, except as otherwise may be provided by law. ". The amount of the total authorizeu cap
 ital stock of said corporation shall be Three
 Hundred Thousand Dollars (S3OO0O0) which shall be divided into three thousand (300O) shares of the par value of one hundred dollars
 tSlUU each. of which authorized capital stock
 the amount of thirty thousand (s3O,O00) has thousand dollars (S3O,O ,OO has been paid V. The names and post office addresses of incoi porators and the nu nber of shares of stock subscribed for by each are as follows: Post Office No. of Total Address Shares No. Common Shares Names Stock
 $. S. Jackson 777 East Sixty-ninth 60 60 Place, LhlcagU. Illinois
 Benjamin o O'Shea, ,6O37 CalumetAv'ue 60 60 Chicago, Ilimois
 Jessie J. Kicks, l522 Windsor Av'ne 60 6U Chicago, Illinois
 E. E. White, 26s So Claremont Ave. 50 50 Fred L. Blackinton, S30 Lake Avne 60 60 Wilmette, Illinois VI This corporation is to expire in fifty (5O) yea from the date of this certificate of lncor- 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 | 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 forth as ob- | jects and purposes in clause III hereof, to the | 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. ;. JALk SON, BENJAMIN O'SHEA, | JESSE J KICKS, k 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 ot the
 said State at the City of Charleston. this
 Eleventh day of March Nineteen Hundred and
 Eight. C; w. SWISHER, | GSeall Secretary of State. | CERTIFICATE UNDER SECTION 9O6 REVISED | STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES, | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
 STATE OF VI EST VIRGINIA, | OFFICE OF I'll. SECRETARY OF STATE | l. Stuart F. Reed, Secretary of State of tho State of West Virginia. being the officer who