The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-03
COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.

VeStment companies with aRaggrogate
capital of IS, S64,30O
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 100000.
Ono grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
600.
One slicer manufacturing company,
$4,000.
One paper b.; manufacturing COM
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital OF $500, 900,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, 100000.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, $25, 900.
Two paving companies, $4,000
One street railway company, $3.50
One engine company, $l50,000.
Ono cold storage company. $4,000.
Two banking companies, $15O,000.
Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, 5000, 900.
Academy Of Music Company, $3.50, 900.
One steam generator company $3.50, 600.
One drug company, $4,000.
Nhree oil companies, S92, 900.
One brewing company, SIS, 200.
five coal, coke and iron companies,
$4,000.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, 81, 100000.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of Sl,721,25O.
The increase in the number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
cighty-three, and the increase in the
minimum capital SS,525.O5O
Tho companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with a capital
OF SiD5, $50; five investment comp anies
with capital stock of S70,00O; two iron
companies with a capital stock of $780,
600; three brick companies with CAPT.
tai stock OF S31 900; two street railway
companies with a capital of Sl2,5O6;
threo medicinal spring companies with
a capital of S32, 900; three banks with a
capital OF S11O,000; two machine conf
panies with capital of SITS, ZOO; one
monograph company with capital Of
$500, 900; carriage factory with $4,000
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital OF S3CO,0OO one electric
light company with S25, 900 capital; ono
literary and benevolent association
with 5000 capital; one zinc company
with capital of $500, 900; a building as
ISOLATION with capital OF $780, 900; an
opera house company with capital Of
SEQ, 900; one lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park association
without 5000; one gas and water COM
pany with 100000 capital; one baths
company with a capital of $50, 900; one
chemical company with $1,000 capital;
one wheat separator company with o
capital ofSl5,OOO.
REAL ESTATE TR NcFEpq
The real estate transactions last wear
amounted to Sl7,067, 060ss.. from SOB
transfers.
For 1880 the real estate transactions
amounted to about $1,000, 900 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately S10,000,O00, and the increase in
the number Of deeds, 1000.
Over So 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 the constructio OF those
buildings, from the mason who laid the
foundation stones to the painter who
put on the last finishing touches, was
1900.
In 1889. the previous year, 900 houses
were built at an average cost of $1,000
each. The year 1883 witnessed tho
erection OF 500 buildings.
The improvements in 1891 will be
even greater than the past. $4,000 is
to be appropriated on the nth of March
for street paving and providing an etfic-
lent sewer system.
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 capital Of 100000,
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 new buildings have
been made.
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