Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-08-09
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
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Know All Men By These PreSentS:
 That we, the undersigned, have this day associated ourselves together for the purpose of organizing a corporation under the laws of the State of Arizona, and for that purpose hereby adopt. exc lowing Articles of Incorporation. to-wit:
 ARTICLE ONE.
 The names and postoffice addresses of the Incorporators are J. s. Hulet, Nav son H. Smith, Philip A. Smith, W. E. Dunlap, w. G. Damon, s. H. Beecher, Charles Bourquin, J. H. Dundon, H. E. Lang, and J. H. Smith. all of kingman, Arizona and the name of pp%4 the sSrRSFsM1 E2TM
 ARTICLE TWO
 The principal office and place Of bus mess of the corporation shall be at Kingman, Arizona, and the corporation may have branch offices and places or business at such other places within or without the State of Arizona, as the Board of Directors, hereinafter provided may designate, at which places any and all of the business of this corporation
 may " ARTICLE THREE
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this cor poration is to mine, dig or otherwise obtain from the earth, petroleum. rock or carbon oils, natural gas, and other volatile mineral substances and salt; to
 
 buy, sell and transport the same III crude or refined condition; to acquire own, hold and deal in gas and oil lands leaseholds and other interests in real estate, gas, oil and other rights; to con struct, acquire, operate and maintail pipe lines for the transportation of nat ural gas, and oil, for the public gener' ally as we'll as for the use of the cor means of pipe lines, tank cars or other wise, and to sell and supply the same to others; to buy, sell, lease and operate pipe lines and storage tanks for tht and gas, and to do general pipe nne and storage business; to construct ant maintain gas wells, oil wells, salt well: and refineries; to buy, sell and deal II gas, oil and salt; to cut, own, hold ant sell timber from the lands of the cor poration.
 TO acquire, own, handle, sell. encum Der and otherwise deal in or with an, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, sell ol in any manner deal in or with shares oI the capital stock of this or any othel corporation to pay fSr spooP pGoRersf of tbi, i corporation, bonds or otherwise; to Dor row money and to issue bonds, payable in cash or convertible into stock or thl: corporation, debentures, mortgages ol promissory notes or other evidences o. indebtedness, and to pledge, sell, or oth erwise dispose of or cucumber the whol' or any part of the property owned ol held by it for the security or paymen of any indebtedness or obligation in cured or undertaken; to make contracts and to do as fully and to the same eX tent as natural persons might or coui' do, any and all things herein set forth either as principal, agent, contractor trustee or otherwise, and either alOn' or in company with other persons, as sociations, or corporations; and Tn gen eral to have and exercise all the power: privileges and immunities conferred up on corporations of this class by the law: of the State of Arizona:
 ARTICLE FOUR
 The amount of the authorized capi tai stock of this corporation shall h' ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOU SAND SHARES of the part value o TEN GENTS each.Said stock shall b, issued at such times and upon suci terms and conditions as may be provided by the Board of Directors, and may b' issued in exchange for property oi an! kind. services, options. benefits or an! other valuable right or thing, for th' uses and purposes of the corporation, ant when issued in exchange thorntor, shal thereupon and thereby be ani becom' fully paid the same as though paid Iol in cash at par, and shall be forever non assessable. The judgment of the Boar of Directors as to the value of the prop erty, right or thing acquired In excnang' for capital stock, shall be c0nc.uslve in the absence of actual fraud in tE' transaction.
 ARTICLE FIVE
 The time of the commencement or " corporation shall be the date upon whicl n certified copy of these Articles Of In corporation is filed with the Ariznn Corporation Commission ana 'ne teraa'i, ation thereof shall be twenty-fiVe yer thereafter, with privilege Of renewal d provided by law.
 The management and coaiIsi oi t business, property and affa!Ss of thi corporation shall be vested in B.nI of Directors, consisting of nine mem hers. who shall be elected from an 2n the stockholders of record at the reguia annual meeting of the stoCknoiaaIfs af which shall be held at the principal of flee of the corporation on the frs Tuesday in June of o on each year; ar,vsS Saf I establish Bylaws and shall make an adopt all rules and regulations neces sary or proper for the conduct ana mar