Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-07-13
$4,000 Cash
Prize CONTEST

The Atlanta Constitution offers
SO 600 cash prize contest for January
February and March, 100 rs follows:
To the person sending yearly sub
soriptson 10 the Weekly CONSTITUTIONS
gether with the correct estimate on the
cotton receipts mt New Orleans during
the first seven IN )nths of the present cot
ton year september 1. 1899, to Adril i.
! 1907
81 500 if the estimate is received dur
ing January.
81 900 if the estimate is received dur
ing February.
$500 if estimate is received during
March.
The above are for the exact estimates;
I there are besides these six prizes rang
| ing a.ong $500, $4O0. $3.50, $50. Sis5,
and $75, 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.
1 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
4 SEASON. whole Crop Tor
Mich. l. Sep. j. Aug. 81. season.
1895 90 1,62O,974 1912, l67 7,l57,3i6.
1896 81 / 1886, 5s7 2,IO2 .47o o,757 1854
1928 1882 Sl5 1876, los 1880 994.
1898 90 1,S54.I53 2,1S0 296 1,274 $40.
The Conetit ti0n7s MAJ ket page will
give each week the port receipts for the
cotton season from whi b you can al
ways see tie New Orleans port receip,s
from September l. 1899 up through Fri
J day Immediately preceding publira-
ton. This will keep you posted TO with
in two or three days o. the time you
send in your estimate.
4 Ii is believed that some Of the Texas
| crop, that as rule is sent sn bulk to
| New Orleans, will be diverted this year
| other points because of the quaran-
4 tine ,aised 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 a 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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