Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1921-05-04
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
VALLEY OIL & REFINING
COMPANY.

The undersigned, citizens of the
United States, hereby associate
themselves for the purpose of form
ing a corporation under the laws of
the State of Arizona, and adopt, exc
cute and acknowledge the following
as the Articles OF Incorporation
thereof:
The corporators hereof are ]. C.
Hcslet, Robt. Z. Morrison, and En-
met T. Morrison, the residence and
Ipost-office address of all of said
corporators being Prescott, Arizona.
The name of the corporation is
VALLEY OIL & REFINING
COMPANY.
The principal place OF business of
said corporation is Prescott, Yava-
pal County, Arizona, and at such
other places as may be fixed by its
Board OF Directors.
H.
The general nature of the business
20 be transacted by this corporation
is as follows:
To purchase, lease, bond or other
wise acquire, own, exchange. sell or
otherwise dispose OF, pledge, mort
gage, hypothecate, and deal in
mines, mining claims, oil lands.
mineral lands, oil, gas, asphaltum,
petroleum, or the products or by
products thereof.
Or to acquire by lease, purchase,
bond or otherwise water and water
rights, to buy, build, contract. own,
operate and maintain and to dispose
OF milling, smelling, and reduction
plants. derricks, rcfineries, tanks,
pipe lines, buildings. and such rail
ways, transportation lines and facili-
ties that may be necessary, proper
and incidental to carry on the bust
ness for which this corporation is
organized
To buy. sell, and operate. any and
all kinds of machinery for the pur-
pose OF developing and working.
mining property, oil wells, or oil. or
mineral bearing lands.
To carry on general mining and
petroleum producing business and
to own and operate drilling, pump
ing, refining, smelling and reduction
tools and appliances.
To mine, pump or extract by any
process whatsoever, purchase and
sell. petroleum or its products, ores.
metals, minerals, mineral bearing de-
posts, earth, coal, clay, or gravel;
to mill, treat, refine, smelt, or crush,
the same by mechanical, electrical,
or chemical processes, means or
appliances, or in any other manner
whatsoever whether they be the
property OF the corporation or for
hire, or under contract, as the prop
crty OF others.
In furtherance and not i'll limita-
ton OF its general powers and pur-
poses, it is herein expressly provided
that this corporation shall have the
following powers, viz:
I. To acquire, own. handle, sell,
assign. transfer, cucumber, and other
wise deal in or with any and all
classes OF property, real or personal,
corporal, or incorporeal; to buy or
otherwise acquire, own, hold, sell
and in any manner deal i'll and with
shares OF the capital stock of this or
other corporations, and to pay for
property purchased or acquired in
cash. stock OF this or other corpora
tions, bonds, or otherwise.
?. To acquire by purchase, cx-
change, location, appropriation, or
any other manner whatsoever, to re-
ccivc. own, hold. use, operate, lease,
mortgage. sell or otherwise dispose
OF. mines, mining property, ores,
minerals, water, water-rights, petro-
leum, petroleum deposits, reservoirs,
tanks, wells. dcrricks, drills. and
drilling tools, canals. fumes, bitches,
pipe lines, rcfineries, smclters. saw
mills. stores, hotels, boarding houses,
warehouses, easements, leases, con-
tracts, or i'll any kind OF property.
5. To enter into arrangements
and contracts with any person or
persons whatsoever or any co-part-
ncrship. firm. association or corpora
ton, owning, mining, gas, oil or
other properties, machinery. factories,
franchises, patents. or plants, which
can be OF reasonable use to this cor
poration; or to enter into contracts
for the interchange OF traffic. tram
way service, operating power, joint
working, or otherwise, as this cor
poration may desire.
l. To acquire to good well, rights,
copyrights. patents, and property OF
all kinds, and 10 undertake the whole
NJ ms. ,,rt of the assets aud liabili-