The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-28

vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of SIS, 1874, 300.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital Of $500, 900.
One grocery and milling company,
capital SIS, 600.
One coupling company, capital $780,
Ono slicer manufacturing company,
$50, 600.
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 500, 900.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital Of $500, 900,
Ono bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, $500, 900.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, s25, 600.
Two paving companies, $50, 600.
one street railway company, SIS, 600.
One engine company, $50, 600.
One cold storage company, $50, 900.
Two banking companies, $50, 600.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, 5000, 600.
Academy of Music Company, $50, 900.
ono steam generator company, $3.50, 900.
Ono drug company, 81, 500.
Three oil companies, 500, 900.
Ono brewing company, S75, 900.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
$40, 900.
len building companies, with capital
aggregating, 81, $50, 900.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of 81, 721, $50.
The increase in the number of char
ters in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty-thrce, and the increase in the
minimum capital IS, 525, O50.
The companies chartered during tho
year 1899 arc summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with a capital
of Si95, $50; five Investment companies
with n capital stock Of $40, 600; two iron
companies with a capital stock of $780,
600; three brick companies with q CAPT.
tai stock Of $1,000; two street railway
companies with a capital of S12, 500;
three medicinal spring companies with
a capital OF $50, 600; three banks with a
capital Of $4,000; two machine COM
pan1es with a capital of Sl75, 900; ono
phonograph company with a capital of
$500, 600; a carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine
with a capital Of $500, 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; n building as
4 ObDlUa1 " %JO,OOO, an
opera house company with a capital of
$50, 600; n lumber company with 500
600 capital; one driving park association
without $4,000; one gas and water COM
pany with 100000 capital; one baths
company with a capital of $50, 900; one
chemical company with SIS, 900 capital;
one wheat separator company with a
capital of Sl5, 900.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS..
Tho real estate transactions last year
amounted to SIT, O67, $50 from 5,1O3
transfers.
For 1850 the real estate transactions
amounted to about 81, 1000, 900 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over $50 was approxi-
matcly $40, 000, 900, and tho increase IN
the number of deeds, 1000.
Over $4,000, 900 were spent on build
ings 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 tho
foundation stones to the painter who
put on tho last finishing touches, was
1000.
In 1850. the previous year, 900 houses
were built at an average cost of 81, 200
each. The year 1883 witnessed the
erection OF 500 buildings.
The improvements in 1891 will be
even greater than tho past. $500, 900 is
to be appropriated on the 18th of March
for street paving and providing an efic-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanes-
vile. Ohio, with a capital of $50, 900 and
employing 600 men, will be remov ed
here.
A large plant for the manufacture of
Shelf hardware with a capital of $500, 900,
employing $50 men, will be moved hero
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
contracts for several hundred thousand
dollars worth of new buildings have
been made.
1t is n w~ell-known fact that 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. II. Jennings,
AS they buy exclusively direct from tho
manufacturers for their three large
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
matlsm, his stomach was disordered. 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 q running sore on his leg of