The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-01
COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.

companies are Drleny summarized be-
low:
Seventy-five land and real estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of $3.50, 800.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of S40O,OOO
One grocery and milling company,
capital 5000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
One slicer manufacturing company,
100000.
One paper bag manufacturing com
pany, 800, 900.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital of $500, 900,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, $500, 900.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, $4,000.
Two paving companies, S2O,O
One street railway company, SIS, 900.
One engine company, $150,O0O.
One cold storage company, $780, 900.
Two banking companies, $15O,000.
Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, So00,O0O.
Academy OF Music Company, S15O, 900.
Ono steam generator company, $3.50, 600.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, $4,000.
One brewing company, $4,000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
S74O,OOO.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, S4,33O,00O.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of 81, $50.
The increase in the number Of char
tiers in 1890 over 1899 will be seen to he
eighty-three, and the increase in the
minimum capital So, ESQ.
The companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with capital
of S495, $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 S3l 900; two street railway
companies with capital of Sl2, 500;
three medicinal spring companies with
capital of S32, 900; three banks with
capital of S110,O00; two machine COM
panies with capital of Sl75,O00; one
photograph company with capital of
100000; carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital OF 100000; ono electric
light company with S25, 200 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $1,000 capital; one zinc company
with capital of 100000; building as
ISOLATION with a capital of $4,000 an
opera house company with q capital of
100000; one lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park association
without $4,000; one gas and water COM
pany with 100000 capital; one baths
company with capital of SEQ, 900; one
chemical company with SIS, 600 capital;
one wheat separator company with a
capital Of $4,000.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The real estate transactions last year
amounted to Sl7,067,960 from SOB
transfers.
For 1889 the real estate transactions
amounted to about $1,000, 600 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately $4,000, 900, and the increase in
the number of deeds, 1000.
over 50 900, 900 were spent on build
ings in the year 1890 In Roanoke. The
number of houses built was about 900
or 1880, and tho 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 1900
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 Strant m vi inn
lent sewer system.
Tho Duval Engine Works. of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with capital of $50, 900 and
employing 200 men, will be removed
here.
large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with a capital of $500, 900,
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.
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