The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-19
COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.

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ganized in Roanoke with an aggregate
minimum capital of $40, 246, 800. These
companies are briefly summarized be-
low:
Seventy-five land and real estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of SIS, 1864, 800.
Two cigarette machine companies.
aggregate capital of $500, 900.
One grocery and milling company,
capital SIS, 600.
One coupling company, capital $780,
600.
One slicer manufacturing company,
$40, O0O. -
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 500, 600.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital of SEQ, 900,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, 100000.
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, S25, 900.
Two paving companies, $40, 600.
one street railway company, SIS, 900.
ono engine company, $3.50, 000.
one cold storage company, $500
Two banking companies, $50, 900.
our loan, trust and finance COM
panieS, $500, 600.
Academy OF Music Company, $3.50, 600.
One steam generator company, $3.50, 600.
One drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, S92, 600.
One brewing company, $4,000.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
$4,000.
Ten building companies, with capital
aggregating, 81, $40, 900.
For the year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nine charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of S1,721,2 $50.
The increase in the number Of char
ters in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty-three, and the increase in the
minimum capital SS,525,05
The companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen lane companies with a capital
Of S495, $50; five investment companies
with a capital stock of $40, 600; two iron
companies with q capital stock of $780,
600; three brick companies with a capt.
tai stock of 1871, 900; two street railway
companies with q capital of S12, 500;
three medicinal spring companies with
a capital of S32, 600; three banks with a
capital of S1lO,0 900; two machine com
panics with a capital of SITS, 600; one
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$500, 600; a carriage factory with S25, 900
capital; n hydraulic engine company
with a capital of $780, 600; one electric
light company with SEA 900 capital; n
literary and benevolent association
with $1,000 capital; one zinc company
with a capital of $500, 600; a building as
ISOLATION with q capital of $50, 600; an
opera house company with a capital of
800, 600; II lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park association
without SIS 900; one gas and water COM
pany with $500, 600 capital; one baths
company with a capital of $50, 600; one
chemical company with S., coo capital;
n wheat separator company with a
capital of S15.O
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Tho real estate transactions last year
amounted to SIT, O67, $50 from SOB
transfers.
For 1889 tho real estate transactions
amounted to about 81, 200, 900 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanokc's real estate trans
fers during 1890 over 1880 was approx
mately $40, O0O, 900, and the increase in
the number ofdeeds, 1000.
Over 50, 1000, 900 were spent on build
ings in tho year 1890 IL Roanoke. The
numDc OIL houses built was about 200
or 1880, and 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 touches, was
1900.
In 1889, the previous year, 800 houses
were built at an average cost of 81, goo
each. The year 1883 witnessed the
erection Of 500 buildings.
The Improvements in 1891 will be
even greater than the past. 5000. 900 is
to be appropriated on the 18th of March
for street paving and providing an ef1c-
lent sewer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with a capital of $50, 600 and
employing 200 mon, will be removed
here.
A large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with a capital of $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 nave
been made.
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