The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-24


ganized in Roanoke with an aggregate
minimum capital Of $40, 24G,3 800. These
companies are briefly summarized be-
low:
Scventy-fve land and real estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
capital Of 1864, 300.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 100000.
One grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
600.
One slicer manufacturing company,
$4,000.
One paper bag manufacturing com
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital of SEQ, 900,
Ono bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, $5OO,OOO
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, $4,000.
Two paving companies, $4,000.
One street railway company, SIS 900.
One engine company, S150,0OO.
One cold storage company, $4,000.
Two banking companies, S150,00O.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, 100000.
Academy of Music Company, $50, 900.
One steam generator company, $3.50, 900.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, 500, 900.
One brewing company, 1000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
ST4O,0OO.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, S4,33O,0OO,
For the year 1890, the charter books
hot -,
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital Of Sl,72l,25
The increase in the number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty-threc, and the increase in the
minimum capital SS,525,O50.
The companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with capital
OF S405, $50; five investment companies
with capital stock of $40, 900; two iron
companies with capital stock Of $780,
600; three brick companies with capt.
tai stock of S31 900; two street railway
companies with capital of Sl2,500;
three medicinal spring companies with
capital of S32, 600; three banks with a
capital Of $4,000; two machine COM
panies with capital of SITS, 900; one
monograph company with capital OF
$500, 900; carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital of $500, OOO one electric
light company with S25, 900 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 a capital of
$50, 900; one lumber company with S2O,-
600 capital; one driving park association
without $4,000; one gas and water com
pany with 100000 capital: one baths
company with a capital of SEQ 900; one
chemical company with IS. coo capital;
one wheat separator company with
capital of $4,000
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The real estate transactions last year
amounted to Sl7,067,96O from S, 1903
transfers.
For 1850 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 1889 was approx
mately Sl0,000,000, and the increase in
the number of deeds, 1000.
Over So, 000,0 900 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 $780, the previous year, 900 houses
were built at an average cost of s., 200
each. The year 1883 witnessed the
erection OF 500 buildings.
The 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 eific-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works. of Zanes-
Vile, Ohio, with q capital of 500, 600 and
employing 200 men, will be removed
hero.
large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with capital of $500, 900,
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,