The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-24

companies arc briefly summarized be-
low:
Seventy-five land and real estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of 1851, 300.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 500, 900.
One grocery and milling company,
capital S75, 900. y
One coupling company, capital $780,
600.
One sliccr manufacturing COMPANY.
100000.
Ono paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 500, O00.
Five marble companies with an aggrc-
gate capital Of $500, 600,
Ono bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, $500, 900.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, $1,000.
Two paving companies, $50, 900.
One street railway company, SIS, 900.
One engine company, S150, GOO.
One cold storage company, $50. 900.
Two banking companies, $15O, 900.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panieS. 5000, 600.
Academy of Music Company, $50, 900.
one steam generator company ,$35, 900.
Ono drug company, $4,000.
SOhhp uhACo, -p-,OOO.
One brewing company, S75, 1000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
S740, 900.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggrcgating, 81. $3.50, 600.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital Of 81, 72l,250.
Tho increase in the number of char
tcrs in 1890 owe 1889 will be seer to be
cighty-thrcc, and the increase in the
minimum capital IS, 525, $50.
The companies chartered during the
year 1889. are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with Il capital
OF Si93,25O; live investment ompanies
with Il capital stock of so, 900; two iron
companies with Il capital stock Of $3.50
600; three brick companies with Il capi-
tai stock Of $31 900; two street railway
companies with a capital of SIP, sos;
three medicinal spring companies with
a capital of S32 900; three banks with n
capital of $4,000; two machine COM
panies with a capital Of SITS, 600; one
monograph company with Il capital of
$500 600; n carriage factory with S25, 600
capital; n hydraulic engine ompan
with a capital of $500, 900; one electric
light company with $25, 900 capital; one
literary n benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; one zinc company
with a capital of $500, 600: a building as
ISOLATION with n capital of $50, 900; an
opera house company with n capital of
$4,000; one lumber company with S2O,-
600 capital; one driving park association
without $4,000; one gas and water COM
pany with S500,O0 capital; one baths
company with a capital of $50, 900; ono
chemical company with $1,000 capital;
one wheat separator company with a
capital ofSl5, 600.
REAL ESTAT TRANSFERS.
The real estate transactions last wear
amounted to SIT, 067, $50 from SOB
transfers.
For 1889 the real estate transactions
amounted to about 81, 200, 600 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
Increase in Roanokc's real estate trans
fcrs during 1890 over 1889 was approx
matcly $4,000, 900, and the increase in
the number Of deeds, 1000.
Over 1900, 900 were spent on build
lngs In the year 1890 IN Roanoke. The
number Of houses built was about 1000
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 TOUGHER, was
l,200.
In 1889, the previous year, 900 houses
were built at an average cost of 81, 200
each. The year 1SSS witnessed the
erection of 500 buildings.
Tho 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 cflic-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zancs-
vile, Ohio, with a capital of $50, 600 and
employing 600 men, will be removed
here.
a large plant for tho manufacture of
Shelf hardware with a capital of $500, 900.
employing $50 men, will be moved here
from New England.
Tho Norfolk and Western will build
a handsome new union depot, the finest
in the State.
A glass factory has been secured and
dollars worth of new buildings have
been made.
1t is Il well-known fact that YOU can
buy the very best pianos and organs at
the lowest possible prices and easiest
terms from the lIobbic Music Co., los
Salem avenue, c. Il. Jennings, manager.
AS they buy exclusively direct from the
manufacturers for their three large
houses situated in this city, Lynchburg,
Va, and Knoxville, Tenn.
Specimen Cases.
S. II. Clifford, New Casscll, Wis, was
troubled with neuralgia and rhcu
matism, his stomach was d%isordcrcd. his
liver was affected to an alarming degree.
appetite fell away, and he was terribly
reduced in flesh and strength. Threo
bottles of Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd. Harrisburg III