The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-21

During 1890 132 companies wore or
ganized in Roanoke with an aggregate
minimum capital of $40, GAG, 800. These
companies are briefly summarized be-
low:
Seventy-fve land and real estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of S. 1864, 800.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of $500, 900.
Ono grocery and milling company,
capital SIS, 900.
One coupling company, capital $780,
600.
One slicer manufacturing company,
$50, 600.
Ono paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 500, 600.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital of SEQ, 600,
Ono bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, $500, 600.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, $4,000.
Two paving companies, Soo,o 600.
One street railway company, SIS, 900.
Ono engine company, $3.50, 000.
one cold storage company. $4,000.
Two banking companies, $50, 1000.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, $500, OOU.
Academy of Music Company, $50, 900.
One steam generator company, $3.50, 600.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, S92, 900.
Ono brewing company, $4,000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
$40, 900.
Ten building companies, with capital
a~ggregating, ST. 330, 1000.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that %forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital Of 81, 721,o50.
The increase in the number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty-three, and the increase in the
minimum capital Ss,525. O5O.
The companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with a capital
OF S405, $50; five investment companies
with a capital stock of $40, 600; two iron
companies with a capital stock OF $780,
600; three brick companies with a CAPT.
companies with a capital OF S12, SOC;
three medicinal spring companies with
a capital OF S32, 900; three banks with a
capital Of $4,000; two machine COM
panies with a capital of SITS, 900; one
monograph company with a capital OF
$500, 600; a carriage factory with SOS, 600
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with q capital OF S3CO, 600; one electric
light company with S25, 900 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; one zinc ompany
with a capital Of $500, 900; a building as
ISOLATION with a capital of $50, 600; an
opera house company with a capital of
$4,000; one lumber company with S2O,-
O0n 20 nj fol. ona Il r;y;,r ..-
without $4,000; n gas and water com
pany with $500, 900 capital; one baths
company with a capital of $50, 600; one
chemical company with S., 600 capital;
II wheat separator company with a
capital of SIS, 200.
REAL ESTAT TRANSFERS..
The real estate transactions last wear
amounted to S17,067, 06O from SOB
transfers.
For 1850 the real estate transactions
amounted to about s., 200, 600 from about
1900 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately $40, 600, 600, and the increase in
the number of deeds, 1000.
Over 50, 900, 600 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 touches, was
1900.
In 1889, the previous year, 500 houses
were built at an average cost of 81, 200
each. The year 1888 Witnessed tho
erection Of 500 buildings.
The improvements in 1891 will be
even greater than the past. $500, 600 is
to be appropriated on the nth of March
for street paving and providing an eflc-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with a capital of $50, 600 and
employing 200 men, will be removed
here.
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.
The Norfolk and Western will build
a handsome now 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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