The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-22

lOW.
Sevonty-fve land and real estate in
yestmcnt companies with an aggregate
capital Of IS, SCI 800.
Two cigarette machine compapies.
aggregate capital of $500, 900.
One grocery and milling ompany
capital s75, 900.
Ono coupling company, capital $780,
600.
Ono slicor manufacturing company,
$50, 900.
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 800, 900.
Five marble companies with an agQre-
gate capital Of SEQ, 900,
Ono bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, $500, 600.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, S25, 600.
Two paving companies, $4,000
Ono street railway company, SIS, 900.
Ono engine company, $50, 600.
One cold storage company, $50, 900.
Two banking companies, $3.50, 900.
-Four loan, trust and finance com
panies, 1900, 600.
Academy Of Music Company, $50, 900.
One steam generator company, 1896, 900.
Ono drug company, 1850.
Three oil companies, 500, 900.
One brewing company, SIS, ZOO.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
$40, 600.
Ten building companies, with capital
a%ggregating, S4.330,Oo0
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-ninc charters we're
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of Sl,721,250
Tho 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 SIS, 525, $50.
The companies chartered during she
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with Il capital
OF S495,23O; five investment companies
with q capital stock of $40, 600; two iron
companies with n capital stock of $780,
900; threc brick companies with n CAPT
tai stock Of sal, 900; two street railway
companies with n capital Of S12, 500;
three medicinal spring companies with
u capital OF S32, 900; three banks with a
capital OF $4,000; two machine com
panles with a capital Of S175, 900; ono
monograph company with Il capital OF
$500 600; "a carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; m hydraulic engine
with a capital OF 5000, 600; one electric
light company with s25, 900 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $4,000 capital; one zinc company
with a capital of $500, 900; a building as
ISOLATION with n capital Of $780, 600; an
opera house company with a capital Of
$4,000; one lumber company with $780,
600 capital; II driving park association
without $4,000; one gas and water COM
pany with $500, 600 capital; ono baths
company with Il capital of $50, 900; one
chemical company with 81, 900 capital;
one wheat separator company with a
capital of$15, 900.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Tho real estate transactions last year
amounted to SIT, OCT, $50 from 5,1O3
transfers.
For 1889 the real estate transactions
amounted to about s., 900, 600 from about
1900 real estate transfers, SO that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1850 was approxi-
matcly $40, GOO, 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 1000
or 1850, n 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
1000.
In 1889. the previous year, 900 houses
were built at an average cost of 81, 200
each. The Ycar 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 ellie
lent system.
Tho Duval Engine Works, OF Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with a capital of $50, 600 and
employing GOO men, will bo removed
here.
a large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with a capital $500, 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.
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