Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-04-06
$4,000 Cash
PRIZE CONTEST

PRJZE CONTEST.
The Atlanta Constitutions
Great Offer of 19OO-The
Receipts at New Orleans
from September to April
Full Statistics Given for
Yonr Guldance-An I'm
paralelled Offer for Our
Readers.
The Atlanta Constitution offers a
IS 600 cash prize contest for January
February and March, 1900 as follows:
To the person sending yearly sub
scriptson 10 the Weekly Constitution, to-
gether with the correct estimate on the
cotton receipts at New Orleans during
the first seven M )nths of the present cot
ton year September /, 1899, to Adril 1,
l9OO)-
81 500 if the estimate is received dur
ing January.
81 900 if the estimate is received dur
ing February.
S500if estimate is received during
March.
The above are for the exact estimates;
there are besides these six prizes rang
ing along $500, S4OO. $3.50, $50. sizes,
and SIS, amounting to $500, that will
be paid out sure for the six nearest est.
mates to the New Orleans receipt at any
time during the three months of the
contest. But you hit it exactly during
January aud secure the 81 500 prize
check.
AS guide in making estimates upon
the New Orleans port receipts, the Con-
stitution gives the following figures
compiled from statistics of the past four
years:
NO. r'cts NO r'cts. Total Us
SEASON. Sep. l. whole year Crop for
Mich. Sep. 1. Aug. 81 season.
1895 90 1920, 974 1,S12,l67 7,l57.3i6.
1896 o. 1886, 5S7. 2.IO2 40 S,757 1854
1S97-9s 2.432 315 2,576,165 1l,199, 1894.
1873 90 l,s54,153 2,13O,296 1924, $40.
he constitutions market page will
give each week the port receipts for the
C ton season from which you can al
ways see tie New Orleans port receipts
from September l. lS99 up through Fri
day Immediately preceding publica-
ton. This will keep you posted 10 with
in two or three days % the time YOU
send i'm your estimate
IL is believed that some of the Texas
"rop, that as rule is sent sn bulk to
New Orleans, will b. divert ed this wear
other points because of the quaran-
tine raised by injunction from the Uni
ted Stated courts will not have very
soothing effects upon the direction Of
cotton shipments to New Orleans. This
is mentioned simply as pointer in
making up estimates; how mnch to al
low. if anything for this ,use must be
left to each msn's judgment.
The Weekly constitution for 1900 wi
be better than ever before. It's special
British war, the Philippine and Cuban
operations the busy session of the most
important congress that has ever assem-
bled, the beginning of the issue Of the
presidential campaign of this year and
the debates and speeches during it's
progress and the final result of the
November election, the DEVELOPMENTS
of the south's great industrial move
ments; diversified farm and village in
dustries and thousands of other impo-
tant things will found fully and freely
discussed in the Weekly Constitution
Tor the year. The Farm and Farmers
page, the Woman's Kingdom, the
Southern Pulpit the Children's Page
and other Interesting departments will
be ably conducted and will be especially
adapted to those addressed The ring
ing editorials of The Constitution
speaking tight out and meeting exactly
what it means in the advocacy of the
true democratic doetrine and in behalf
of the great interests of the masses of
orr plain people, and protecting them
them from the grasping greed of those
who would wiring their earning from
their helpaess hands, are alone worth
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