The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-16

minimum capital of $40, 240, 800. These
companies are briefly summarized be-
low:
Seventy-five land and real estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of S5,s64,3OO.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 100000.
One grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
900.
One slicer manufacturing company,
$40, 900.
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital Of $3.50, 1000,
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, S150,000.
One cold storage company. $4,000.
Two banking companies, S15O,OOO.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panics, 100000.
Academy of Music Company, $3.50, 900.
Ono steam generator company, $3.50. 900.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, S92, 900.
Ono brewing company, $4,000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
S74O,OOO.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggrcgating, S4,330,00o.
For the year 1890, tho charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of Sl,72l,250.
The increase in the number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
cighty-thrce, and the increase in tho
minimum capital SS,525,05O.
The companies chartered during the
year 1880 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with a capital
of S495, $50; five investment com panies
with capital stock of 1000; two iron
companies with capital stock of $780,
600; three brick companies witK a capt.
tai stock of S3l 900; two street railway
companies with capital of sig, 500;
three medicinal spring companies with
q capital of So, 900; three banks with n
capital Of Sl10,000; two machine COM
panies with capital of Sl75, 900; ono
photograph company with a capital of
100000; a carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital Of 100000; ono electric
light company with S25, 900 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; one zinc company
with capital of $500, 900; building as
ISOLATION with a capital OF $4,000; an
opera house company with O capital of
100000; one lumber company with S2O,-
600 capital; one driving park association
without Sl5,000 one gas and water COM
pany with 100000 capital; one baths
company with capital of $50, 900; one
chemical company with $1,000 capital;
one wheat separator company with a
capital ofS15.OOO.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The real estate transactions last wear
amounted to SIT, O67 ,96O from SOB
transfers.
For 1889 the real estate transactions
amounted to about 81, 900, 900 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that tho
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1880 was approx
mately $l0,000,000, and the increase in
the number of deeds, 1000.
Over s., 900, 600 were spent on build
ings in the year 1890 In Roanoke. The
number of houses built was about 900
or 1850. 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 touches, was
1000.
In 1880, the previous year, 900 houses
were built at an average cost of 81, 200
each. The year 1883 witnessed the
erection Of 500 buildings.
Tho 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 cffic-
lent sewer system.
Tho Duval Engine Works. of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with capital of $50, 600 and
employing 200 mon, will be removed
here.
A large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with capital of $500, 600,
employing $50 men, will be moved here
from Now England.
Tho Norfolk and Western will build
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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