Weekly journal-miner., 1921-05-11
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
VALLEY OIL & REFINING
 COMPANY.

COMPANY.
 The undersigned, citizens of the
 United States, hereby associate
 themselves for the purpose of form ing corporation under the laws oi
 the State of Arizona, and adopt, exc
 cute and acknowledge the following
 as the Articles of Incorporation
 thereof:
 The corporators hereof are ]. C.
 Heslet, Robt. E. Morrison, and Elm
 met T. Morrison, the residence and
 post-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 ot DirectorS.
 II.
 The general nature of the business to 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, refineries, tanks, pipe lines, buildings, and such rail- ways, transportation lines and facili- ties that may be necessary, proper and incidental to carry on the busi- 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, smelting 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- posits, 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 whether they be the of the corporation or for hire, or under contract, as the prop erty of others.
 In furtherance and not in limita- ton of its general powers and pur- poses, it is herein expressly provided that this corporation shall have the following powers, viz:
 1. To acquire, own, handle, sell, l assign, transfer, cucumber, and other wise deal in or with any and all classes of property, real or personal, or incorporeal; to buy or otherwise acquire, own, hold, sell and in any manner deal in 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.
 2. To acquire by purchase, ex- change, location, appropriation, or any other manner whatsoever, to re- ceive, own, hold, use, operate, lease, mortgage, sell or otherwise dispose of, mines, mining property, ores, water, water-rights, petro- cum, petroleum deposits, reservoirs, anks, wells, derricks, drills, and irilling tools, canals, fumes, ditches, pipe lines, refineries, smelters, saw mills, stores, hotels, boarding houses, easements, leases, con ; racts, or in any kind of property.
 ,. To enter into arrangements md contracts with any person or persons whatsoever or any co-part- lership, firm, association or corpora ion, owning, mining, gas, oil or other properties, machinery, factories, ranchises, patents, or plants, which an be of reasonable use to this cor ,oration; or to enter into contracts or the interchange of traffic, tram way service, operating power, joint or otherwise, as this cor 'oration may desire.
 4. To acquire to good well, rights, ( copyrights, patents, and property of |