The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-30

'coIhchI companies Win an aggregate
capital of 5,SG4, 300.
Two cigarette machine companies.
aggregate capital of 100000.
Ono grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
900.
Ono slicer manufacturing company,
100000.
Ono paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an appre-
gate capital OF SEQ, 900,
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, SIS, 900.
One engine company, S15O,O0O.
One cold storage company, $4,000.
Two banking companies, S15O,0OO.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, So0O,OOo
Academy OF Music Company, $50, 900.
One steam generator company, $3.50 900.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil com panies, 500, 900.
Ono brewing company, S75, 600.
Five COAL coke and iron companies,
S74O,OOO.
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,72l,25O.
Tho increase in the number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1899 will DO seen to be
eighty-thrce, and the increase in the
minimum capital SS,525,05O.
The companies chartered during tho
year 1889 arc summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with a capital
of S405, $50; five Investment companies
with capital stock of 10000; two iron
companies with n capital stock Of $780,
600; three brick companies with CAPT
tai stock of sal, 900; two street railway
companies with capital of Sl2, 500;
three medicinal spring companies with
Il capital of S32, 900; three banks with q
capital of Sl10, 600; two machine COM
panies with capital of SITS, 900; ono
phonograph company with q capital of
100000; carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital Of 100000; one electric
light company with S25, 900 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 $500 an
opera house company with n capital of
100000; one lumber company with SEQ
600 capital; one driving park association
without SIS, 900; one gas and water com
pany with 100000 capital; one baths
company with capital of $4,000; ono
chemical company with 5000 capitals
one wheat separator company with
capital ofSl5,OOO.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS..
The real estate transactions last year
amounted to S17,O67, 900 from 5,1O3
transfers.
For 1880 the rcal estate transactions
amounted to about 81, 600, 600 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1889 was approxi-
mately $10, 900, 900, and the increase in
the number Of deeds, 1000.
Over 81, 900, 900 were spent on build
ings in the year 1890 In Roanoke. The
number Of houses built was about 1 200
or 1850, and the number of men given
employment in the construction Of those
buildings, from the mason who laid the
foundation stones to tho painter who
put on tho last finishing touches, was
1900.
In 1899. the previous year, 500 houses
were built at an average cost of 81 200
each. Tho year 1883 witnessed the
erection Of 500 buildings.
The improvements in 1891 will be
even greater than tho past. $500, 900 is
to be appropriated on the 18th of March
for street paving and providing an ef,ic-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with capital of 500, 600 and
employing 200 men, will be removed
here.
A large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with a capital of $500, 900,
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.
glass factory has been secured and
contracts for several hundred thousand
dollars worth of new buildings have
been made.
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