The Winslow mail., 1911-05-27
ARTICLES OF
INCORPORATION
Of The Northern Arizona Oil
Company.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRES
ENTS, that we, whose names are
hereto affixed, do hereby associate
ourselves together for the purposes
of forming a corporation under the
laws of the Territory of Arizona, and
to that end adopt the following
ABTICLES OF INCORPORATION.
ARTICLE [.
The namt 8 of the incorporators are
Edward A. Sawyer and William H
Burbage, both of Nava jo County, Ter
ritory of Arizona, aud the name OF
the incorporation shall be NORTH
EKN ARIZONA OIL COMPANY, The
principal place of transacting business
shall be in the City of Winslow, Nava-
jo County, Territory of Arizona, but it
may maintain and have other places
for transacting its business within the
Territory of Arizona and elsewhere, as
the stockholders may provide, where
stockholders and directors meetings
may be held and all corporate busi-
ness transacted
ARTICLE II.
The general nature of the business
to be transacted is to make contracts,
to purchase, lease, option, locate or
property; to own, hold, exchange, sell,
and otherwise dispose of, real and per-
sonal property; to pledge, mortgage,
or otherwise hypothecate, in real and
personal property; to deal in mineral
lands, mining lands, coal lands, Oil and
gas lands; to work, explore, operate
and all minerals from its holdings,
to gather the oil and gas therefrom,
and to buy, sell, exchange, or other
wise dispose of the products,
or any mineral, and the bi-products
thereof; TO construct, purchase, lease,
own, operate, sell, exchange, or other
wise have and dispose of, such machin-
cry and such property as may be nee
essary and useful in constructing, con-
ductlng, operating and developing
mineral land, oil and gas land, refner-
les, reducing plants, pipe lines or 9TH
er methods of transportation, and such
other institutions as may be for the
best interests of successful operation;
10 sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose
of, leases; to own and hold franchises
OF all kinds, right of way, and all such
powers and rights of property as may
be held by a natural person; to Issue
notes, bonds, or any instrument neces-
airy or cOnveLient to hand le its busi-
ness; to give N ortgages, deeds of trust
or any other instrument to secure the
Obligations Of the company to borrow
money, and to loan money; to act as
agent or trustee, and to do such other
acts in the i'll crest of the corporation
not inconsistent with The laws of the
Territory of Arizona and of the United
states. TO acquire, hold, manage and
operate canals, reservoirs, dams, fumes,
ditcbes, acqueducts, pipes, water and
water rights, electric lines, machinery,
factories and other property for the
purpose of generating and transmit
ting electricity, electric energy and
electric light, heat, power and other
,ses; to acquire, hoid, manage and op-
crate buildings, tanks, machinery,
pipes and pipe lines, and any and all
other appliances for man ufacturing,
producing and distributing gas, and
any and all other illuminant products,
or light, heat, power, and any and all
pther beneficial uses ana purposes to
hich they may be applied; to supply
such power to mines, quarries. rail-
roads. street railroads, tramways, mills
and factories; to supply such light,
heat, gas and illuminant products to
mines, quarries, mills, factories, incor-
porated cities, cities and counties, vii
lagos and towns, end to the lnhabit-
nts thereof, or to any other useful
purpose; 10 acquire by purchase, or
otherwise, from any person, firm or
corporation, property, rights, privileges
and franchises that may be deemed OF
value to this corporation in carrying
ut or IL connection with any or all
of the objects for which this corpora.
tion is formed, as herein before set
forth; to buy and sell shares of stock
of any corporation engaged in business
similar to hat of this corporation and
to buy and sell the. mortgage bonds of
any such corporation engaged in SINH
lar business.