Mohave County miner., 1909-07-03
State of West Virginia
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION.

tE E VT lNCOhf Nh AV.'' I,C. w. SWlSHER, Secretary of State of the state of West Virginia, do hereby certify that an agreement duly acknowledged and ac companed by the proper atfda>its, has been thls day delivered to 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.
 II. The principal place of business of said corporation shall be located in the City of Chl' cdgo, Tn the Couuty of Cook and State or Ill nois. Said corporation will have no chief works. III. The objects and purposes for which this corporation Is formed are follows:
 l. To purchase, acquire, store, use, sell, and otherwise uea In and dispose of. either directly or indirectly by means of agents or otherwise, calcium carolue and all other gas producing materials. and gds, especially acetylene gas, and all machinery, apparatus. fixtures. appli ances and eIuipment Iur any purposes relating Tn any manner to the use OI calcium carDlde aLd acetylene or other gas; also any and all metallurglcal electrumetallurgcal, chemical and electro. chemical products and compound, il Guiding any and all elementary substances, and any ana all alloys and compounds there Of, and any and all articles consisting or partly Consisting of the foregoing or any of them, ana any and all products of the foregoing or any Of them.
 ,. TO construct. purchase, lease and other wise acquire, shops, stures WarenuuSes and other buildings and to maintain, use aud Op- crate the same Tor any purposes or the com pany and to lease and sell or otherwise dis pose of the same.
 3. To apply for, obtain. register, purchase or otherwise acquire, and to hold, use, own, op- crate and introduce and to sell, assign, or otherwise dlS pose of, any and all trade marks, trade names, patents, appllcatlou for patt nt, patent rights, licenses, inventions, improve. meuJs and processes used in connection with or secured under letters patent of the United StateS or elSewnere or Ulne wise, and to use. exercise, develop grant licenses in respect of, or otherwise to turn to account the foregoing, . 4lt nf an n nTs.n 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 gagged in or pursuing any one or more Of the kinds of business, purposes Objec s. or opera tions above indicated, or owning or hold Ig any property of any kind herein mentioned.
 D. To hold for investment or otherwise, to use, sell or dispose of any stocks, boudS or other fiscal obligations of any other corpora tiun, 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.
 G. To construct, purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, and to maintain, use, employ and tp- crate and to lease and Sel or otherwise diS- pose of all machinery, apparatus, fixtures, ap planceS 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
 [. The object or purposes of the company is from time to time to do any one or more, or all of the acts herein set forth and it is the inten- uon that the objects and purposes specified in any and all of the items of this clause GID of tins ctrthcate of incorporation shall be re- garded as independent objects and pu poses. lhe company may also conduct It's business m other States, and in territoIie, and de nep1pntipS Tinted fnreipn countries and may have branch offices ln the City of New York in the State of New York, or Tn he City of Niagara Falls 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 (S3U0,OO0) which shall be divided into three thousand (3,00O) shares of the par value of one hundred dollars SlOU each. of which authorized capital stock the amount of thirty thousand tS3O,0OO has been subscribed, and the amount of thiI ty thousand dollars ($300 0J0) has been paid.
 V. he names and post office addresses of ncol porators and the number of shares of stock subscribed for by each are as follows:
 Post Office No. of Total
 Address Shares No.
 Common Shares 5. $. Jackson 777 East sixty-ninth 6O 60
 Place, ( hicagU. Illinois
 Benjamin O'Shea,6OS CalumetAvue 60 60
 Chicago Illinois
 Jessie J. Kicks, l522 W Windsor Av'ne 60 6U
 Chicago Illinois
 E. E. White, 2GS Su. ClaremOnt Ave. 60 50 Fred l.. Blackinton. $50 Lake Av'ne 60 60
 Wllmette. Illinois
 VI. This corporation is to expire in fifty (50) yea fr,m 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 and purposes as herelnabove 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- jec,s and purposes in clause III hereof, to the same extent and as fully natural persons might or could do
 Given under our hands this 9th day of March 4. D. l9O8 J. S. LA, K SON, BENJAMIN O'SHEA, JESSE KICKS, E F. WHITE. FRED l.. BLACkINTON.