Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-02-14
LEGAL NOTICES

 forming corporation under the laws o, of Arizona, do hereby adopt the follow ing Articles of Incorporation:
 ARTICLE I.
 The name of the corporation is MEN TEX OIL COMPANY.
 ARTICLE II.
 The names, residences and postcffice addresses of the incorporators are
 M. c. CLEVELAND, Kingman, Ari- Zona,
 l. c. STRICKER, Kingman, Arizona
 JOHN H. CONWAY. Kingman. Arizona
 ARTICLE III.
 The principal place of business of the corporation within Arizona shall be Kingman, Mohave County, State of Ari- zona; but other offices may be estab- lished and maintained within or out places as the Board of Directors. may designate. where meetings of stock holders and directors may be held and any and all corporate business trans acted.
 ARTICLE W.
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted is, to-wit:
 i. To purchase lease, locate, preempt. acquire, own. develop, operate, sell "nd deal in petroleum and oil properties and wells, land, any interest therein and any and all products thereof. and in min
  rights and claims, and the products thereof in the State of Arizona, or any other State, Territory or Colony of the United States, or elsewhere. including any Indian Reservation of the United States open to mineral or petroleum To- move. mill, reduce, smelt, amalgamate refine, manufacture, and prepare for market, timber, ore, metal, metallic com pounds. and mineral substances of all kinds, coal, coke, charcoal and other fuels. petroleum, oils. all products, hy- products. mediates. immediates of all ores, minerals, fuels. petroleums and oils.
 ?. To carry on the business of man. ufacturing. distributing. using and sell ing light heat or power; to acquire and equip water works and systems and supply and deliver water for power con- sumption, irrigation or any other pur- pose; to buy, acquire construct. ma'n- tain and operate railroads, railways. tramways, telephone and telegraph lines stage lines. and other lines of transpor- tation of passengers or merchandise. ex- press lines. ferrys, steamship and boat lines of all kinds, in connection with ts mining business aforesaid.
 3. To buy, acquire, construct, main tain. operate. and deal in machinery, in'- plements. tools, conveniences of all kinds provisions and articles capable of being used in connection with mining, utility, oil or other operations. furnaces. smell ters, mills. factories, machine shops, power, light, gas, telephonic, telegraphic and other plants, warehouses hotels. dwellings stores, harbors. wharves, piers, docks. water course. fumes, can als, reservoirs, aqueducts, dams, pipe lines, oil tanks. bridges, cars, motors. ships, boats, elevators. and all other kinds of structures, establishments, ar nr thinOS conducive to the interests of the cor poration. -.., ..
 4. To subscribe to. purchase acquire. and take over the good will assets, ity or other corporation or firm, asso- ciaton. person, or persons, and pay for the same in cash, stock or bonds of this corporation or otherwise.
 D.. To manufacture, purchase or oth- erwise acquire. to hold. own, mortgage. pledge, sell, assign and transfer, or oth- erwise dispose of. to invest, trade, deal in and deal with goods, wares and mer- chandise, and real and personal proper ty of every class and description, lands, buildings, business concerns and under takings, mortgages, shares, stocks, de- bentures, securities, concessions. poli- cies, book debts and claims, and any interest in real or personal property and any claims against such property or against any person or corporation,
  or undertaking so acquired.
 6. To own handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of its own capital stock and that of other cor porations, and to vote any shares of stock of other corporations owned by it the same as natural person might do; to borrow money and to issue bonds. notes, debentures and other evidence of indeb- tedness and secure the payment of the same by mortgage, deed of trust or oth- erw1se; to act as agent trustee, broker, or in any other fiduciary capacity; and fin general to do and perforS1 such acts and things and transact such business fin connection with the foregoing objects not inconsistent with law. in any part of the world, as the board of directors may deem to the advantage of the cor poration. - s
 T. The foregoing clauses shall be con. strued both as objects and powers, and 1t is hereby expressly provided that the foregoing enumeration of specific pow CTS shall not be held to limit or restrict poration.
 ARTICLE V.
 The total authorized Capital Stock of this corporation is THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND ($sOO,O ,Ooo) DOLLARS, dl- C30o,0OO) shares, of the par value of Oi.e ($1.oO) Dollar per share, which shall be paid in at such time as the board of directors may designate, in cash, real or personal property, lease, option to purchase, services, or any other valu- able right or thing. for the use and pur- poses of the corporation ,and all shares of the Capital Stock when issued in ex- change therefor shall thereupon and thereby be and become full-paid the same as though paid for in cash at par, and shall be forever non-assessable, and the judgment of the directors as to the value of any property, right or thing acquired in exchange for capital stock shall be conclusive.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The commencement of the corporation shall be the date of the issuance to it of Certificate of Incorporation by the Arizona Corporation Commission, and it shall endure for the full term of twen- ty-fve (25) years thereafter, with priv ilege of perpetual succession, as provid- ed by statute.
 ARTICLE VII.
 l. In furtherance, and not in limita- tion, of the power conferred by statute, the affairs of the corporation shall be conducted by board of directors, col,- sisting of not less than three (3), nor more than eleven CID members, each of whom shall be a stockholder of rec ord. Until the first annual meeting of the stockholders, and until their success sors have been elected and have quail fled, the following named persons shall be the directors of the company: NJ c. I. c. Stricker, John H. Con- way, whose residences are at Kingmar, Arizona: Provided, however, that at the first meeting of the stockholders, or at aIf