The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01

Seventy-fve land and real estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of SIS, 1854, 800.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of $500, 600.
One grocery and milling company,
capital SIS, 900.
One coupling company, capital $780,
One slicer manufacturing company,
$40, 600.
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 500, 900.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital of $500, 1000,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, S500,0 900.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, 1926, 600.
Two paving companies, $50, 1000.
One street railway company, SIS, 900.
One engine company, $50, 600.
One cold storage company, $50, 600.
Two banking companies, $3.50, 600.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, $500, 900.
Academy of Music Company, $50, OOO.
One steam generator company, $3.50, 600.
One drug company, 81, 500.
Three oil companies, $92, 900.
One brewing company, $4,000.
Five coal, COX and iron companies,
$40, 900.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, 81. 1900 {.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with al aggregate minimum
capital of S1,721, ESQ.
The increase in tho number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seer to DO
eighty-three, and tho increase in the
minimum capital IS, 1925, $50.
The companies chartered during tho
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with a capital
of S495, 1885,; five Investment companies
with a capital stock of $40, 900; two iron
companies with a capital stock of $780,
900; three brick companies with a CAPT
tai stock of $4,000; two street railway
companies with a capital Of sig, 5O0;
three medicinal spring companies with
a capital of $32, 000; three banks with a
capital of $4,000; two machine COM
panles with a capital of SITS, 600; one
photograph company with a capital OF
$500, 600; a carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with a capital of S3CO, 600; one electric
light company with SIS, 900 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; one zinc mpa
with q capital of $500, 600; n building as
ISOLATION with a capital of $50, OOe; an
opera house company with a capital of
100000; n lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park association
without $4,000; one gas and water COM
pany with $500,0 600 capital; one baths
company with n capital of SEQ, 900; ono
chemical company with So. 600 capital;
one wheat separator company with n
capital of SIS, 900.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The real estate transactions last wear
amounted to S17,067, 9GO from SOB
transfers.
For 1880 the real estate transactions
amounted to about 81, 600, 900 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanokc's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately $10,O 600 900, and tho increase in
the number Of deeds, 1000.
Over $1,000, 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 tho mason who laid the
foundation stones to the painter who
put on the last finishing touches, was
1900.
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 thar the past. 5000, 900 is
to be appropriated on the 18th of March
for street paving and providing an efhc-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with a capital of $50, 900 and
employing 600 men, will be removed
here.
A large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with q capital O fS4OO, 600,
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.
1t is a w~ell-known fact hat you can
buy the very best pianos and organs at
the lowest possible prices and easiest
terms from the Hobbie Music Co., los
Salem avenue, c. T. Jennings,
AS they buy exclusively direct from the
manufacturers for their three largo
houses situated in this city, L%ynchburg,
Va, and Knoxville, Tenn.
Specimen Cases.
S. II. Clifford, New Cassell, Wis, was
troubled with neuralgia and rheu
matism, his stomach was d~isordered, his
liver was affected to an alarming degree,
appetite fell away, and he was terribly
reduced in flesh and strength. Three
bottles of Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, ILL.,,
had a running sore on his leg of
oipht years. StandinO TIcod tbroa bo+