The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-25
COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.

vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of SIS, s64, 800.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 100000
One grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
600.
One slicer manufacturing company,
S3O,OOO
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany. 100000.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital Of S22O,OOO
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, 100000.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, $3.50
Two paving companies, $4,000.
One street railway company, SIS, o00
One engine company, $4,000.
Ono cold storage company, $4,000.
Two banking companies, S15O,OOO.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, 100000.
Academy of Music Company, $3.50, ooo.
One steam generator com pany, S25 % 900.
One drug company, 1880.
Three oil companies, 500, 900.
One brewing company, $751; 1000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
$40, 1000.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, 81, 100000.
For tho 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
tors in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty-three, and the increase in the
minimum capital $3.50 .O5O.
Tho obnr
year 1889 arc summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with capital
OF S405, $50; five investment com anies
with capital stock of $4,000; two iron
companies with a capital stock of $780,
600; three brick companies with a capt.
tai stock Of S31 900; two street railway
companies with a capital of Sl2,5Oo;
three medicinal spring companies with
a capital Of S32, 900; three banks with a
capital Of $4,000; two machine com
panies with capital Of Sl75, 900; one
phonograph company with q capital OF
$1,000 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 zine company
with capital of $500, 600; building as
ISOLATION with capital OF $4,000; an
opera house company with capital Of
S20, 900; one lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park association
without SIS 200; one gas and water COM
pany with 100000 capital; one baths
company with capital of $50 1000; one
chemical company with $4,000 capital;
enc wheat separator company with a
capital ofSl5,00O.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The real estate transactions last year
amounted to S17067,9 60 from SOB
For 1889 the real estate transactions
amounted to about 81, 900, 600 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately S10,00O,O0O, and the increase in
the number of deeds, 1000.
Over So, 900, 900 were spent on build
ings in the year 1890 III Roanoke. The
number of houses built was about ZOO
or 1880, and the 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 tho last finishing touches, was
1900.
In 1889. the previous year, 500 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. 100000 is
to be appropriated on the 18th of March
for street paving and providing an effic-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works. of Zancs-
vile, Ohio, with capital of $50, 900 and
employing 200 men, will be removed
here.
large plant for the manufacture OF
shelf hardware with 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.
Buying extensively direct from the
manufacturers only for three large
houses enables the Hobbie Music Com.
pany to sell tho very best pianos and
organs at lower prices and easier pay
ments than you can buy elsewhere,
quality and make of instruments con-
sidered. Call at their Roanoke ware
rooms, los Salem avenue. C. T. Jen-
nings, manager, and examine their ele-
CANT stock.
G. r. Gilbert handles Smiths steel
roofing, the cheapest roof in town.
Do you know who handles Smiths
Steel Roofing? 1t will nav Won tn find