The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-04
hundreds. OF employee and capital
reokoned by the hundred thousand, are
negotiating for feothoid in this South
western Golcondn, and are coming
monthly, weekly, almost daily.
COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.

cupltti Oh %, oo4 SUI.
Two Cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 100000.
One grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company capital $780,
900.
One slicer manufacturing company,
$4,000.
Ono paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital of S22O, 1000,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, 100000.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, $4,000.
Two paving companies, $50,
Ono street railway company, SIS, 000
Ono engine company, S15O,O0O.
One cold storage company, $4,000.
Two banking companies, S15O,OOO.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, 100000.
Academy Of Music Company, $50, OOO.
One steam generator company, $3.50, 900.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, S92,0 00
One brewing company, $4,000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
S74O,O0O.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, 81, 1900
For tie year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-ninc charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of S1,721,250.
The increase in the number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty three, and the increase in tho
minimum capital So, SOS $50.
The companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with q capital
OF S495, $50; five investment com panies
with capital stock of $4,000; two iron
companies with capital stock of $780,
600; three brick companies with a CAPT.
tai stock of S3l 900; two street railway
companies with capital of S12,5O0;
three medicinal spring companies with
a capital of sag, 900; three banks with
capital of $4,000; two machine COM
panies with capital Of Sl75, 900; ono
photograph company with capital OF
100000; carriage fac tory with S25, 600
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital Of S3C0 900; one electric
light company with So, 900 capital; ono
literary and benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; ono zinc company
with capital of $685. building as
ISOLATION with capital of $4,000; an
opera house company with capital Of
$4,000; one lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park association
without Sis, 900; one gas and water com
pany with $4,000 capital; one baths
company with capital of S2O,OOO; one
chemical company with $1,000 capital;
one wheat separator company with
capital of$l5, 900.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
amounted to S17,067 ,06Ossn, 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
fors during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately $40, 900, 900, and tho increase in
the number of deeds, 1000.
Over So, 900, 900 were spent on build
ings in the year 1890 In Roanoke. The
number of houses built was about ], 900
or $50, and the number of men given
employment in the construction of those
buildings, from the mason who laid tho
foundation stones to the painter who
put on the last finishing touches, was
1900.
In 1899, the previous year, 900 houses
were built at an average cost of $1,000
erection of 500 buildings.
The improvements in 1901 will be
even greater than the past. 100000 is
to be appropriated on the 18th of March
for street paving and providing an eftic-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with capital of $50, 900 and
employing 200 men, will be removed
here.
A large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with capital of $500, 600,
employing $50 men, will be moved hero
from Now 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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