The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-12
COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.

Seventy-fve land and real estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of SIS, 1854, 800.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 100000.
Ono grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
O0O
One slicer manufacturing company,
$4,000.
Ono paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital Of S22O, 900,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, 100000.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, S25,OO0
Two paving companies, $4,000.
Ono street railway company, SIS, OO0
One engine company, S15O,O0O.
One cold storage company, $4,000.
Two banking companies, S15O,OOO.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panics, 5000, 900.
Academy Of Music Company, $3.50, 900.
Ono steam generator company, S25O, 900.
One drug company, 800.
Three oil companies, S92, 900.
One brewing company, 5000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
$4,000
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, Si,330,000.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of Sl,72l,25O.
The increase in the number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be sccn to be
eighty-three, and the increase in the
minimum capital IS, 525, O5O.
The companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with capital
of S495,25o; five investment companies
with capital stock of $4,000; two iron
companies with capital stock of $780,
600; three brick companies with q CAPT
tai stock of 200; two street railway
companies with capital of Sl2,50o;
three medicinal spring companies with
capital of $4,000 three banks with
capital of $4,000; two machine COM
panies with capital of S175,OOO; one
photograph company with capital of
S300,000; carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with n capital Of S3C0,0O0 one electric
light company with S25, 200 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; one zinc company
with capital of $500, 900; building as
ISOLATION with Il capital of $4,000; an
opera house company with capital of
SIC, 900; one lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park association
without 200; one gas and water COM
pany with 100000 capital; one baths
company with capital of $50, 1000; one
chemical company with $1,000 capital;
one wheat separator company with a
capital ofS15,OOO.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS,
The real estate transactions last year
amounted to Sl7,O67, 900 from SOB
transfers.
For 1880 the real estate transactions
amounted to about $1,000, 900 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately Sl0,00O,O0o, and the increase in
the number of deeds, 2,OOO
Over 81, 100000 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 1889. the previous year, 900 houses
were built at an average cost of 81 200
each. The year 1888 witnessed the
erection of 500 buildings.
The improvements in 1891 will be
even greater than the past. 100000 is
to be appropriated on the 18th of March
for street paving and providing an effic-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zancs-
vile, Ohio, with a capital of $780, 900 and
employing 200 mon, will be removed
here.
A large plant for tho manufacture of
shelf hardware with capital of 500, 600,
employing $50 men, will be moved here
from New England
The 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.