The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-15
COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.

monthly, weekly, almost daily.
COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890,
During 1890 1a2 companies were or
gained In Roanoke with an aggregate
minimum capital of $40, FAC, 800. These
companies are briefly summarized be-
low:
Seventy-fve land and real estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
capital Of So, 1854, 800.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of S4OO,O0
One grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
600.
Ono slicer manufacturing company,
$4,000.
Ono paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 100000.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital Of $500, 1000,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, 100000.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, $4,000.
Two paving companies, $50, 600.
One street railway company, S15, 600.
Ono engine company, S150,O00.
One cold storage company, $4,000.
W. nAhS SoM paulcSy C1OU,UOU.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, $500, ZOO.
Academy of Music Company, $50, 600.
One steam generator company, $3.50, 600.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, S92.O 900.
One brewing company, SIS, 1000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
$40, 900.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, S4,33O,OoO.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of Sl,791,250.
The increase in the number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty-three, and tho increase in tho
minimum capital IS, 525.O50.
The companies chartered during tho
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 S3l, 900; two street railway
companies with capital of $l2, 500;
three medicinal spring companies with
capital of 1000; three banks with
capital of $4,000; two machine COM
panles with capital of Sl75, 900; one
photograph company with capital OF
$500, 900; carriage factory with S25, 200
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital Of $500, 900; one electric
light company with So5, 900 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; one zinc company
with capital of $500, 1000; building as
ISOLATION with capital of $50, 900; an
opera house company with capital of
10000; one lumber company with $780,
coo capital; one driving park association
without Sl5 200; one gas and water com
pany with S500,000 capital ono baths
company with q capital of $40, 900; ono
chemical company with SIS, 600 capital;
one wheat separator company with o
capital of $4,000.
REAL. ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The real estate transactions last year
amounted to S17,O67,96 from SOB
transfers.
For 1880 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 $40, 1000, GOO, and the increase in
the number of deeds, 1000.
Over So, DOC, 900 were spont on build
ings in the year 1890 In Roanoke. The
number OF houses built was about ZOO
or 1880, and the number of mon given
employment in the construction of those
buildings, from the mason who laid the
foundation stones to the painter who
put on tho last finishing touches, was
1,20O.
In 1889. the previous year, 800 houses
were built at an average cost of $1,000
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 efilc-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanos-
vile, Ohio, with capital of $50, 900 and
employing 300 men, will be removed
hero.
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.
glass factory has been secured and
contracts for several hundred thousand
dollars worth of new buildings have
been made.