Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-08-17
$4,000 Cash
Prize CONTEST

The Atlanta Constitution offers
So 600 cash prize contest for January
February and March, 1905 as follows:
To the person sending yearly sub
scriptson to the Weekly Constitution, to-
gether with the correct estimate ON the
cotton receipts at New Orleans during
the first seven months of the present cot
ton year September /, 1899, to Adril L,
1907
$500 if the estimate is received dur
ing January. 1
$1,000 if the estimate is received dur
ing February
{ $50Oif estimate is received during
March.
The above are for the exact estimates;
( there are besides these six prizes rang
ing along $500, $4OO, $3.50, $780, S1e5,
and SIS, amounting to $500, that will
be paid out sure for the six 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 $1,000 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. rcts. Total us
SEASON Sep L. whole year Crop for
Mich. 1. Sep. /. Aug. 81. season.
1895 SO 1,62O,974 1,s12,167 7,i57,346
1896 81 1,996,5s7 2,IO2 40 s,757 ,964'
lS97-9S 2.492 ,315 2,576,165 1i,199. 994.
1873 90 1854, 1913 2,130,296 IL ,274, $40
The Constitutions marx 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 /, 1899 up through Fri
J. day Immediately proceeding publiea-
ton. This will keep you posted to with
in two or three days of the time you
send in your estimate.
1t is believed that some of the Texas
rrop, that as a rule is sent sn bulk to
New Orleans, will be diverted this year
to 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 q pointer in
making up estimates; how mnch to al
low, if anything, for this cause must be
left to each msn's judgment.
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