The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-24
COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.

vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of SIS, 1864, 300.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 100000.
One grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
Ono slioer manufacturing company,
$4,000.
One paper bag manufacturing com
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital OF S22O,0OO,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, S5OO,0OO.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, S25, 900.
Two paving companies, $4,000.
One street railway company, SIS, 000
One engine company, S150,OOO.
Ono cold storage company, $50, 900.
Two banking companies, S15O,O0O.
Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, 100000
Academy of Music Company, $3.50, 900.
One steam generator company, $3.50 900.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, 500, 900.
One brewing company, $4,000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
$40, 900.
aggregating, 81, 100000.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of 81, 721, $50.
Tho 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 SO, 1928, 1850.
Tho companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with a capital
OF S495, $50; five investment com anies
with capital stock of $40, 900; two iron
companies with a capital stock Of $780,
600; three brick companies with CAPT
tai stock of S31 900; two street railway
companies with a capital of Sl2,5O6;
three medicinal spring companies with
capital of S32, 000 three banks with a
capital of $4,000; two machine COM
panies with q capital of S175, 900; one
monograph company with capital of
100000; carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital of $500, 900; one electric
light company with S25, 600 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; one zinc company
with capital of $500, 900; a building as
ISOLATION with capital of $4,000; an
opera house company with capital of
$50, 900; one lumber company with 800
600 capital; one driving park association
without Sl5, 200; one gas and water COM
pany with 100000 capital; ono baths
company with a capital Of $50, 900; one
chemical company with $1,000 capital;
one wheat separator company with
capital of $4,000.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The real estate transactions last wear
amounted to SIT, O67, 900 from 5,1O3
transfers.
For 1889 the real estate transactions
amounted to about 81, 900, 900 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1880 was approx
mately 100000, and tho increase in
the number of deeds, 1000.
Over So, 000,00 were spent on build
ings in the year 1890 IN Roanoke. The
number OF houses built was about ], 900
or ,25O, 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 $1,000
each. The year 1888 witnessed the
erection OF oOO DullQ1ngS.
The improvements in 1891 will be
even greater than the past. $500, 900 is
to be appropriated on the nth of March
for street paving and providing an effic-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with n capital of eGe, 600 and
employing 200 men, will be removed
here.
a large plant for the manufacture of
Shelf 10 IL" are with a capital of $500, 900,
employing $50 mon, will be moved here
from New England.
Tho 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.
buying extensively direct from the
manufacturers only for three large
houses enables the Hobbie Music Com.
pany to sell the very best pianos and
organs at lower prices and easier pay
ments than you can buy elsewhere,
quality and make Of instruments con-
sidered. Call at their Roanoke ware
rooms, los Salem avenue. G. T. Jen-
nings, manager, and examine their ele-
CANT stock.
c. r. Gilbert handles Smiths steel
roofing, the cheapest roof in town.
Do you know who handles Smiths
Steel ROOfinOo n will nov 49,, - "a