The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-25

companies are briefly summarized be-
low:
Se~venty-hvo land and real estate in
vcstment companies with an aggregate
capital of 3d. 1854 300.
Two cigarette machine companies.
aggregate capital of $500, 900.
One grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
Ono coupling company, capital $780,
Ono slioer manufacturing company,
$50, 600.
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 300, 900.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital of so2O, 1000,
One bridge and iron author
lied capital, $500, 900.
W. power companies, aggregate
capital, $25, 600.
Two paving companies, SEQ, 900.
One street railway company, S15, 600.
Ono engine company, $50, OO0.
One cold storage company, $50, 900.
Two banking companies, $50, 600.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, 5000, 900.
Academy of Music Company, $50, 900.
One steam generator company 35, 900.
One drug company, S4, 500.
Three oil companies, 500, 600.
One brewing company, $4,000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
S74O, 900.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggrcgating, 81, 1870, 600.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of s ,72l,25O.
The increase in tho number OF char
ters in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
cighty-threc, and the increase in the
minimum capital So, 1926, 05o.
The companies chartered during the
year 1882 arc summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with a capital
OF S405,250 five Investment companies
with a capital stock of SIC, 900; two iron
companies with a capital stock of $780,
600; three brick companies with a CAPT
tai stock of S3l 900: two street railway
companies with n capital of S12, 800:
three medicinal spring companies with
a capital of So, 900; three banks with a
capital OF Sl10, 600; two machine COM
panics with Il capital of S175, 900; one
photograph company with a capital Of
$500, 600; a carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine mpa
with a capital of $500, 600; one electric
light company with $25, 900 capital; n
literary and benevolent association
with 5000 capital; one zinc company
with a capital of $500, 600; a building as
ISOLATION with Il capital of $50, 900; an
opera house company with Il capital of
$50, 600; one lumber company with $780,
600 capital: II driving park association
without $4,000; II gas and water COM
pany with $500, 600 capital; one baths
company with a capital of $50, 900; one
chemical company with So, 900 capital;
one wheat separator company with a
capital ofS15.O 0
REAL. ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The real estate transactions last year
amounted to ST. GT, $50 from 5,1O3
transfers.
For 1850 the real estate transactions
amounted to about 81, 600, 900 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fcrs during 1890 over 1889 was approxi-
mately $40, 900, 600, and the increase in
the number Of deeds, 1000.
Over 81, 000, 900 were spent on build
ings in tho year 1890 In Roanoke. The
number of houses built was about 1000
or 1850, and h 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 1859, the previous year, 500 houses
were built ut an average cost Of ST. 0
each. The ear 1888 witnessed the
erection of 500 buildings.
The improvements in 1891 will be
even greater than the past. $500, 600 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, 600 and
employing GOO men, will be removed
here.
A large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with n capital of $500, 900,
employing $50 men, will be moved here
from New England.
The Norfolk and Western will build
a handsome new union depot, tho 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 well-known fact that you can
buy the very best pianos and organs at
the lowest possible prices and easiest
terms from the Iobbie Music Co., IOS
Salem avenue, c. II. Jennings,
AS they buy exclusively direct from the
manufacturers for their three large
houses situated in this city, L~ynchburg,
Va, and Knoxville, Tenn.
Specimen Cases.
5. II. Clifford, New Casscll, Wis. was
troubled with neuralgia and rheu
matism, 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.,,