Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-06-08
$4,000 Cash
PRIZE CONTEST

$S 900 cash prize contest for January
February and March, 1900 as follows:
To the person sending yearly sub
scriptson 10 the Weekly Con titution, to-
gether with the correct estimate on the
cotton receipts at New Orleans during
the FIST seven m )nths of the present cot
ton wear (September 1. 1899, GO Adrii 4.
lsOo)-
:, 81 500 il the estimate is received dur-
ms January.
Sl,OUO if the estimate is received dur
ing February
S5OOif estimate - received during
March.
The above are for the exact estimates;
there are besides these six prizes rang
ing along $500, $500 $3.50. $3.50. $1e5,
and S7s. amounting to $500, that will
be paid out sure for the Fix nearest esti-
mates to the New Orleans receipt at any
time during the three months of the
contest. But you hit it exactly during
January and secure the 81 500 prize
check
As a guide ia making estimates upon
the New Orleans port receipts, the Con-
stituiion gives the following figures
compiled from statistics of the past four
years:
NO. r'cts NO. r;ets- Total us
SEASON. Sep. l. whole year Crop for
Mich. 1. Sep. 1. Aug 81. season.
1895 SO 1,62O,974 1.sl2, l67 7,I57.3i6.
1896 81 1,936,5S7 2,l0e ago s,757 1854.
1s97-ss 2.432 3l5 2,57e, los i,aS9 9s4.
1898 30 1,S54.153 2,l30 295 III ,274 $40.
The Constitutions ma, ket page will
give each week the port receipts for the
COTTON season from which you can al
ways see the New Orleans port receipts
from September 1. 1899 up through Fri
day Immediately preceding publi,a-
ton. This will keep you posted to with
in two or three days OF the time you
send in your estimate.
IL is believed that some of the Texas
crop, that as a rule is sent sn bulk to
New Orleans, will be diverted this year
other points because of the quaran-
tine raised by injunction from the Uni
ted STATE d courts will not have very
'othiDg effects upon the direction of
cotton shipments TO New Orleans. This
is mentioned simply as a pointer in
making up estimates; how mnch to al
low, il anything, for this cause must be
left to each msn's judgment.
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