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

vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of SIS, 1864, 800.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of $500, 600.
Ono grocery and milling company,
capital SIS, 600.
One coupling company, capital $780,
600.
One slioer manufacturing company,
$4,000.
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 500, OOO.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital OF $3.50, 600,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, $500, 600.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, S25, 200.
Two paving companies, $50, 900.
One street railway company, SIS, 900.
One engine company, $3.50, 600.
One cold storage company, $50, O00.
Two banking companies, $3.50, 600.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, 5000, 900.
Academy of Music Company, $50, 600.
One steam generator company, $3.50, 600.
One drug company, 81 ,5OO.
Three oil companies, 1872, 900.
One brewing company, STE, 200.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
$40, 900.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, S4, 1880, 900.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of S1,721,25O.
The increase in the number Of char
tiers in 1890 over 1880 will be seen to be
eighty-three, and tho increase in the
minimum capital So, 525, O5O.
The companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen Ian companies with n capital
OF S495, $50; five investment companies
with n capital stock of $40, 900; 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 S12, SOC;
three medicinal spring companies with
a capital of s32, 600; three banks with a
capital Of S110 900; two machine COM
panies with a capital of SITS, 600; N
photograph company with a capital of
$500, 600; a carriage factory with S25, 600
capital; one hydraulic engine
with a capital Of S3CO, 600; one electric
light company with sos, 900 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; one zinc company
with a capital of $500, 600; q building as
ISOLATION with a capital of $50, 600; an
opera house company with n capital of
$4,000; n lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park association
without SIS, 900; one gas and water com
pany with S500,000 capital; one baths
company with n capital of $50, 900; one
chemical company with SIS, 900 capital;
n wheat separator company with a
capital of S15, 600.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The real estate transactions last year
amounted to SIT, 067, $50 from SOB
transfers.
For 1880 the real estate transactions
amounted to about 81, 900, 600 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that tho
increase i'll Roanoke's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately $40, 000, 900, and the increase in
tho number of deeds, 1000.
Over So, 1000, 600 were spent on build
1ngs In h year 1890 IN Roanoke. The
number of houses built was about 900
or 1850, and the number of mon given
employment in tho construction of those
buildings, from the mason who laid the
foundation stones to tho painter who
put on the last finishing touches, was
/, 200.
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 efic-
lent W system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with a capital of $50, 900 and
employing GOO mon, will be cd
here.
A large plant for tho manufacture oil
shelf hardware with a capital $500, 600,
employing $50 men, will be moved here
from New England.
The Norfolk and Western will build
a 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.
1t is a well-known fact that you can
buy the very best pianos and organs Mt
the lowest possible prices and easiest
terms from the Hobbie Music Co., los
Salem avenue, G.. 7. Jennings, manager.
AS they buy exclusively direct from tho
manufacturers for their three large
houses situated in this city, L%ynchburg,
Va, and Knoxville, Tenn.
Specimen Cases.
S. Fl. Clifford, New Cassell, Wis. was
troubled with neuralgia and rheu
matlsm, his stomach was disordered, 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 a running sore on his leg OF