The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-26

low:
Seventy-five land and real estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of SIS, 1854, 800.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 500, 900.
One grocery and milling company,
capital SIS, 600.
One coupling company, capital $780,
600.
One slioer manufacturing company,
$50, 900.
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 500, 900.
Five marble companies with an arrre-
gate capital of SEQ, 600,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, $500, 900.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, S25, 900.
Two paving companies, $40, 900.
One street railway company, SIS, 900.
One engine company, $50, 900.
One cold storage company, $50, 900.
Two banking companies, $50, 900.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
p%anies, 5000, 900.
Academy of Music Company, $3.50, 900.
One steam generator company, S35, 900.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, 500, 1000.
One brewing company, SIS, 900.
fifC COul, COIkC lUU iron
$40, 900.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, 81, 800, 900.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-ninc charters we're
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of 81, 721,250.
The increase in tho number of char
tcrs in S over 1850 will be seen to be
cighty-three, and the increase in the
minimum capital SS,525,O5O l..
h companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with n capital
of Si95, $50; five Investment companies
with a capital stock of $40, 600; two iron
companies with a capital stock of $780,
900; three brick companies with n CAPT
tai stock of S3l 900; two street railway
companies with q capital of Sl2, 500;
three medicinal spring companies with
a capital Of $50, 600; three banks with a
capital of S1l0, 600; two machine COM
panics with a capital Of SITS, 900; one
monograph company with a capital OF
$500, 600; 4 carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with 4 capital of S3CO, 900; one electric
light company with S25, 900 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $1,000 capital; ono zinc
with a capital of $500, 600; Il building as
ISOLATION with a capital of $50, 900; an
opera house company with a capital of
$40, 200; one lumber company with 500
600 capital: one driving park association
without $4,000; one gas and water com
pany with $685. 900 capital; one baths
company with Il capital of $40, 900; one
chemical company with So 900 capital;
one wheat separator company with Il
capital ofS15, 900.
real. ESTATE TRA \SEEPC
The real estate transactions last wear
amounted to SIT, OCT, 800 from 5,1O3
transfers.
For 1880 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
fcrs during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately $40, 900, 900, and the increase in
the number of deeds, 1000.
over 5000, 900 were spent on build
lngs in the year 1890 IN Roanoke. The
number of houses built was about 1000
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 the last finishing TOUGHER, was
1000.
In 1889, the previous year, 800 houses
were built at an average cost of 81, 200
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 etfic-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with a capital of $50, 600 and
employing GOO men, will be removed
hero.
a large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with a capital of 500, 600,
employing $50 men, will be moved here
from New England.
Tho Norfolk and Western will build
a handsome new union depot, the finest
in the State.
a glass factory has Deer secured and
contracts for several hundred thousand
dollars worth of new buildings have
been made.
1t is n wcll-known fact that YOU can
buy the very best pianos and organs at
the lowest possible prices and easiest
terms from the Hobbie Music Co., los
Salem avenue, c. 7. Jennings, manager.
AS they buy exclusively direct from the
manufacturers for their three largo
houses situated in this city, Lynchburg,
Va, and Knoxville, Tenn.
Specimen Cases.
S. II. Clifford, New Cassell, Wis, was
troubled with neuralgia and rheu
matism, his stomach was disordercd, his
liver was affected to an alarming degree,
appetite fell away, and he was terribly
reduced in flesh and strength. Three
bottles of Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, ILL.,,
had q runninp SOrp on bic loO %