The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-28
COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.

aSBfeBaCe capital Oh S4OO, 1000.
One grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
One slicer manufacturing company,
$40, 900.
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital OF 100000,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, 100000.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, $4,000.
Two paving companies, $4,000.
one street railway company, $4,000.
one engine company, S15O,000
Ono cold storage company, $4,000.
Two banking ompanies, $50, OOO
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, 100000.
Academy OF Music Company, $50, 900.
One steam generator company, $3.50, 900.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, 500, 900.
one brewing company, SIS, 900.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
S74O, 900.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, 81, 5000
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of Sl,72l, $50.
The increase in the number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty-three, and the increase in the
minimum capital So, 525,0 $50.
Tho companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with a capital
OF S495, $50; five investment com panies
with capital stock of $40, 600; two iron
companies with capital stock of $780,
600; throe brick companies with a CAPT
tai stock OF S3l 900; two street railway
companies with capital of S12,5Oc;
three medicinal spring companies with
capital of S32, 900; three banks with a
capital Of S11O,000; two machine COM
panies with capital OF SITS, 900; one
monograph company with a capital OF
$500, 900; carriage factory with SIS, 600
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital Of $4,000 one electric
light company with $685. 900 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; one zine company
with capital of $500, 900; building as
ISOLATION with q capital Of $4,000; an
opera house company with capital of
$50, 900; one lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park association
without S15, 200; one gas and water com
pany with 100000 capital; one baths
company with capital of $4,000; one
chemical company with $1,000 capital;
ono wheat separator company with
capital ofSl5,00O.
REAL. ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The real estate transactions last wear
amounted to S17,O67, 900 from 5,1o3
transfers.
For 1889 tho real estate transactions
amounted to about $1,000, 600 from about
5000 real estate transfers, SO that the
increase in Roanol1e's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately $4,000, 900, and the increase in
the number OF deeds, 1000
Over 81, 600, 900 were spent on build
lngs in the year 1890 In Roanoke. The
number of houses built was about 1, 900
or 1880, and tho number of men given
employment in the construction Of those
buildings, from the mason who laid the
foundation stones to the painter who
put on the last finishing touches, was
1000.
In 1889, the previous year, 800 houses
were built at an average cost Of $1,000
each. The year 1888 witnessed the
erection OF 500 buildings.
The improvements in 1891 will be
even greater than the past. $500, 900 is
to be appropriated on the 18th OF March
for street paving and providing an efflc-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works. OF Zanes-
vile. Ohio, with capital OF $50, 900 and
employing 200 men, will be removed
hero.
A large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with capital of $500, 600,
employing $50 men, will be moved here
from New England.
The Norfolk and Western will build
a handsome new union depot, the finest
in the State.
A glass factory has been secured and
contracts for several hundred thousand
dollars worth of now buildings have
been made.
Buying extensively direct from the
manufacturers only for three large
houses enables the Hobbie Music Com
pany to sell the very best pianos and
organs at lower prices and easier paw
ments than you can buy elsewhere,
quality and make of instruments CON
sidered. Call at their Roanoke ware
rooms, los Salem avenue. c. L. Jen-
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