The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-28
COMPANIES ORG AIMED IN 1890.


> Sevonty-fve land and real. estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
Capital of SIS, 1854, 300. .':.iiri :'i-i
/. Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of $500, O00.-
Ono grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
Ono slicer manufacturing company,
S3O,000. 80. - Iii.tr .,,t =.
Ono paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 100000.
Rivgmsrble companies with an aggre-y
gate capital Of S22O,eOOs
One Priagoan9 iron company, author
'tzed capital, S506;oO0. ~
5rr Two. power companies, aggregate
capital, $4,000! - .f-ii'7l 49,
Two paving companies, $4,000.
One street railway company, SIS, 900.
One engine company, $4,000.
One cold storage company. $4,000.
Two banking companies, $50, 900.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
ganies, S2QG0OO. e
Academy of Music Company, $4,000
One Steam generator com pany, $3.50 1000.
Ono drug company, $500.
Three oil companies, SOC, 600. >
Ono brewing company, $75, 900.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
S7i0,0O
Ton building companies, with capital
aggrcgating, 81, $50, 900.
For tho year 1890, tho charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital Of S1,72l, $50.
The increase in the number OF char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty three, and tho increase in the
minimum capital ss,525. $50.
The companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with a capital
of S495, $50; five Investment companies
with capital stock of $40, 1000; two iron
companies with capital stock OF $780,
600; three brick companies with o capt.
tai stock of sal, 900; two street railway
companies with capital Of $4,000;
three medicinal spring companies with
a capital of $4,000; three banks with a
capital Of S1lO,000; two machine com
panies with capital of $175, 900; one
photograph company with capital of
$500, o00i a carriage factory with SIS, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital Of S3C0, 900; one electric
light company with S25, O0O capital; one
literary and, benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; one zinc company
with capital of $500, 900; a building as
ISOLATION with capital Of S5o,Oo0; an
opera house company with a capital of
&c, 0O0t one lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park associations
without $4,000; ono gas and water COM
pany with 100000 capital ono baths
company with capital Of $4,000; one
chemical company with $1,000 capital;
one wheat separator company with a
capital of Sl5,0
.i~. REAL ESTATE r9ANsFERs. I
The real ESTATE transactions last vedr
amounted to S17,067,9G from SOB
transfers
For 1885,. the real estate transactions
amounted to about 81, O0O, 1000 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fcrs during 1890 over 1889 was approXi-;
mately Sl0,OO0,0 900, and the increase in
the number of deeds, 9. OOO. :.
;, Over 50 900, 900 were spent on build
lngs in the year 1890 IN Roanoke. The
number of houses built was about 1000
or 1850, and the number of men given
employment in tho construction Of those
buildings, from the mason who laid the
foundation stones to tho painter who
put on the last finishing touches, was.
1900.
In 1889, the previous year, 800 houses
were built at'an average cost of 81 200
each. Tho year 1888 witnessed the
erection of 500 buildings. s.
Tho improvements in 1921 will be
even greater than the past 5000, 600 is
to be appropriated on the 18th of March
for street paving and providing an efIic-
lent sewer system. s-.-
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with capital of $50, 600 and
employing 200 men, will be removed
here.
! A large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with a capital of 800. 600,
employing $50 men, will be moved here
from New England
The Norfolk and Western will build
handsome new union depot, the finest
in the State.
a glass factory has been. secured and
contracts for several hundred thousand
dollars worth of new buildings have
been made.
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