Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-07-26
xRTIcLEs OF INCORPORATION
 WALTON O o1E shs COMPANY

Know All Men By These Presents:
 That we, the undersigned, have this day associated ourselves together for the purpose of organizing a corpora- tion under the laws of the State of Ari- xona and for that purpose hereby adopt, execute acknowledge and publish the following Articles of Incorporation, to- wit:
 The names and postoffice addresses of the incorporators are J: c: Rankin, Chlo- City and C.. w. Herndon, Kingman. Ari- is WALTON OIL COMPANY.
 ARTICLE TWO.
 The principal office and place of bus mess of the corporation shall be at Kingman. Arizona. and the corporation may have a branch office and place of business at such other place or places, within or without the State of Arizona, as the Board of Directors hereinafter provided for, may designate, at which branch offices meetings of the said Board of iDrectors may be held.
 ARTICLE THREE.
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted or carried on by this corporation is to mine. dig or otherwise obtain from the earth petro- leum, rock or carbon oils. natural gas and other volatile mineral substances and salt; to manufacture, refine. prepare same in crude or refined condition; to ,pcQuire, own, hold and deal in gas and voii lands, leaseholds and other interests in real estate, gas, oil and other rights; 10 construct, acquire, operate and main- tain conduits and lines of tubing and piping for the transportation of natural gas, and oil. for the public generally as we'll as for the use of the corpora tion; to transport such oil and gas by fmeans of pipe, pipe lines, tank cars or otherwise, and to sell and suppiy the and operate pipes, pipe lines and storage tanks to be used for the purpose of transporting and storing oils and gas, storage business; to construct and main tain gas wells, oil wells, salt wells and refinerieS, and to buy, sell and deal in gas, oil and sale; to acquire, construct, operate and maintain all railways, tram ways, telephone and telegraph lines or sy stems necessary or convenient in the prosecution of the business of the cor her from the lands of the corporation.
 To acquire, own, handle, sell. cucumber and otherwise deal in or with any and all classes Of Property tod to s or or any manner deal in or with shares of the capital stock of this or other cor poration; to pay for property or rights acquired in cash, stock of. this corpor- ation, bonds or otherwise; to acquire by purchase, exchange, location, appropria- tion or otherwise, and to own, hold, use, wise dispose of and deal in or with mines, mining claims, mining rights, and property, ores, minerals, metals, water, water rights, resirvoirs, canals, flumes. ditches. mills, saw-mills. sme1ters, re- fineries, reduction plants, stores, hotels, boarding houses, townsites. easements or any other kind of property; 10 carry on a general mercantile business: to op- crate and maintain pumping plants and pumping stations; to op- crate and maintain pipe lines; to ac- quire, own, hold, sell or otherwise dis pose of any and all kinds of inventions rights licenses. process or processes, patent rights and letters patent: to bor- row money, and to issue it's bonds, Tay- able in cash or convertible into stock of this corporation, debentures, mortgages: promissory notes or other evidences of indebtedness, and to pledge, sell or oth- eIwise dispose of or cucumber the whole or any part of the property owned or held by it for the security or payment of any indebtedness or obligation in- cured or undertaken; to use it's stock, debentures or bonds in payment for any property which it may purchase or ac- uuire; to make contracts. and to do as fully and to the same extent as natural persons might or could do, any and all things herein set forth. either as nrin- cipa1 agent, contractor trustee. or other Wfse and either alone or in company with other persons, associations CT cor