Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-07-20
$4,000 Cash
Prize CONTEST

The Atlanta Constitution offers a
IS 600 cash prize contest for January !
February and March, 1902 as follows;
To the person sending a yearly sub
scriptson 10 the Weekly constitutional
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 /,
l9O0)-
81, 500 il the estimate is received dur
ing January.
81 900 if the estimate is received dur
ing February.
$500 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. S1e5,
and $50, amounting TO $500, that will
be paid out sure for the six nearest esti-
mates 10 the New Orleans receipt at any
time during the three months of the
eonsest. but you hit it exactly during
January aud secure the $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. cts NO. r'cts. Total us
SEASON. Sep L.. whole year Crop Tor
| Mich, 1. Sep. /. Aug. 81. season.
1895 90 I.62O,974 1912, 1877 7,i57,3i6.
1896 81 / 1896, 5S7 2,I02 40 s,757 1854
1s97-9s 2.432 Sl5 2,576,10 1870 994.
1898 90 I,S54,153 2,13O,296 11,274,S40.
The Constitutions market page will
give each week the port receipts for the
cotton season from whirh you can al
ways see the New Orleans port receipts
from September 1, 1892 up through Fri
day Immediately preceding publiea-
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 a rule is sent sn bulk to
New Orleans, will be diverted this year
| o Other points because of the quaran-
tine ais, q 10y injunction from the Uni
| ted Stat,d courts will not have very
soothing effects upon the direction of
coti on shipments TO New Orleans. This
is mentioned simply as 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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important congress that has ever assem-
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presidential campaign of this year and
the debates and speeches during it's
progress and the final result of the
November election, the devel opment
of the south 8 great industrial move
ments; diversified farm and village in
dustries and thousands of other imDo-
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discussed in the We, xiv 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
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speaking ight out and meeting exactly
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uestions, you will, of course, need
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timalion in The Constitution $4,000
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now So The Constition may receive. it
during January and record it to your
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enthusiastically plain.
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