The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-22
COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890.

hihituuu capital OF gu, 24O, 5OO. THESE
companies are briefly summarized be-
low:
Seventy-fivo land and real estate in
vestment companies with an aggregate
capital of s., 300.
Two cigarette machine companies,
aggregate capital of 100000.
One grocery and milling company,
capital $4,000.
One coupling company, capital $780,
One slicer manufacturing company,
100000.
One paper bag manufacturing COM
pany, 500, 900.
Five marble companies with an aggre-
gate capital of 1920, 1000,
One bridge and iron company, author
lied capital, S5O0,OOO
Two power companies, aggregate
capital, $4,000.
Two paving companies, $4,000.
One street railway company, SIS, 200.
One engine company, S15O,0OO.
One cold storage company, $4,000.
Two banking companies, $50, 900.
-Four loan, trust and finance COM
panies, S2OO,OOO.
Academy of Music Company, $50, 900.
One steam generator company, $3.50, 600.
one drug company, $4,000.
Three oil companies, S02, 900.
One brewing company, S75, 900.
Five coal, coke and iron companies,
S74O,O0
Ten building companies, with capital
aggrcgating, 4,330,O0O.
For tho year 1890, the charter books
show that forty-nino charters were
granted with an aggregate minimum
capital of S1,72l,250.
The increase in the number of char
tiers in 1890 over 1889 will be seen to be
eighty three, and the increase in the
minimum capital So, 525, O5O.
The companies chartered during the
year 1889 are summarized as follows:
Fifteen land companies with capital
OF $685. five Investment companies
with capital stock of S7O,O two iron
companies with a capital stock of $780,
600; three brick companies with CAPT
tai stock of S3 900; two street railway
companies with capital Of $l2,5O0;
three medicinal spring companies with
capital of S32, 900; three banks with a
capital OF Sl1o,000; two machine COM
panies with capital of Sl75, 900; one
monograph company with capital of
S3OO,OO0 carriage factory with 1875, 900
capital; one hydraulic engine company
with capital Of 100000; ono electric
light company with Sos, 900 capital; one
literary and benevolent association
with $1,000 capital; one zinc company
with capital OF $500, 900; a building as
ISOLATION with capital Of $50, 600; an
opera house company with capital of
$4,000; one lumber company with $780,
600 capital; one driving park association
without $4,000; one gas and water com
pany with 100000 capital; ono baths
company with capital of SEQ 900; one
chemical company with 1000 capital;
one wheat separator company with
capital of $4,000.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS..
The real estate transactions last wear
amounted to S17,067, 900 from SOB
transfers.
For 1880 the real estate transactions
amounted to about $1,000, 900 from about
5000 real estate transfers, so that the
increase in Roanoke's real estate trans
fcrs during 1890 over 1889 was approx
mately 10000, 900, and the increase in
the number of deeds, 1000
Over s., 100000 were spent on build
ings in the year 1890 In Roanoke. The
number of houses built was about 900
or l, $50, and the number of men given
employment in the construction of those
puiiulnSS, from Jno mason who laid the
foundation stones to tho painter who
put on the last finishing touches, was
1900.
In 1880. the previous year, 500 houses
were built at an average cost of 81 200
each. The year 1888 witnessed the
erection of 500 buildings.
The improvements in 1891 will be
even greater than the past. $4,000 is
to be appropriated on the 18th of March
for street paving and providing an ef1ic-
lent scwer system.
The Duval Engine Works, of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, with a capital Of $50, 600 and
employing 200 men, will be removed
here.
large plant for the manufacture of
shelf hardware with 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.