The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-26
COMPANIES ORGANISED IN 1890.


vestment companies with an aggregate
capital Of 1864, 800.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 100000.
One grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
One slicer manufacturing company,
$4,000.
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital Of S22O, 1000,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, 100000.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, $4,000.
Two paving companies, $40, 1000.
One street railway company, SIS, 900.
One engine company, $150,O00.
One cold storage company, $4,000.
Two banking companies, S15O,OOO.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, 100000.
Academy of Music Company, $3.50, 900.
Ono steam generator com any, $3.50, 900.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil com panies, 500, 900.
One brewing company, $3.50
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
$40, 600.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, S4,330,0Oo.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters wero
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital Of Sl,72l,25O.
The increase in the number Of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be soon to be
eighty-three, and the increase in the
minimum capital Ss, $685. $50.
The companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with a capital
OF S405, $50; five investment companies
with capital stock of $40, 600; two iron
companies with capital stock of $780,
600; three brick companies with capt.
tai stock OF So, 900; two street railway
companies with a capital of Sl2,5oo;
three medicinal spring companies with
capital of sac 900; three banks with
capital of $4,000; two machine COM
panies with capital of $l75, 900; one
monograph company with capital Of
$500, 600; carriage factory with S25, 600
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital OF S3CO, 900; one electric
light company with SOS, 900 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with SIS, 600 capital one zinc company
with capital of $500, 900; building as
ISOLATION with capital of $4,000; an
opera house company with capital of
S2O, 600; ono lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park association
without $4,000; one gas and water COM
pany with 100000 capital; one baths
company with capital of $4,000; one
chemical company with $500 capital;
one wheat separator company with
capital of $4,000.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS..
The real estate transactions last wear
amounted to Sl7,O67,06O from 5,1O3
transfers.
For 1889 the real estate transactions
amounted to about $1,000, 900 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanokes real estate trans
fcrs during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately SlO,O00,O00, and the increase in
the number of deeds, 1000.
Over So, 000, 900 were spent on build
ings in the year 1890 In Roanoke. The
number of houses built was about 900
or $50, and the number of men given
employment in the construction of those
buildings, from tho mason who laid the
foundation stones to tho painter who
put on tho last finishing touches, was
1000.
In 1880, the previous year, 500 houses
were built at an average cost of 81, zoo
each. Tho year 1888 witnessed tho
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 effic-
lent sower system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zancs-
vile, Ohio, with capital Of $50, 900 and
employing 2U0 men, will be removed
here.
large plant for tho manufacture of
shelf hardware with capital of s40O, 600,
employing $50 mon, will be moved here
from New England.
handsome now 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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