Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-08-03
$4,000 Cash
Prize CONTEST

The Atlanta Constitution offers a
50. 600 cash prize contest for January
February and March, 1900 as follows:
To the person sending a 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 L, 1899, to Adril /,
19OO)-
81, 500 if the estimate is received dur
ing January.
1000 if the estimate is received dur
ing February.
$500if estimate is received during
March.
The above are for the exact estimates;
there are besides these six prizes rang
ing along $500, $500. $3.50. $50. sizes,
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.
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. rcts NO: r'cts. Total Us
SEASON. Sep l. whole year Crop for
Mch, L.. Sep. 1. Aug. 81. season.
1895 90 1,62O,S74 1912, 167 1857, 346.
1896 o. 1,936,5s7 2,lO2 40 o,757 ,964'
1s97-9s 2.432 915 2,576,1 1i,199. 994.
1898 90 l,S54,153 2,13O,296 1924, $40
The Constitutions market 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 L, 1899 up through Fri
day Immediately preceding publica-
ton. This will keep you posted TO with
in two or three days Of the time you
send in your estimate.
Ii is believed that some of the Texas
crop, that as 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 a pointer in
making up estimates; how mnch TO al
low, if anything, for this c,use must be
left to each msns judgment.
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be better than ever before. Its special
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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 its
progress and the final result of the
November election, the devel opment
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 We xiv Constitution
for the year. The Farm and Farmer
page, the Woman's Kingdom, the
Southern Pulpit, the Children IS 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 light out and meeting exactly
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our plain people, and protecting them
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timation in The Constitution IS $4,000
cash contest. To get the benefit of the
high prize send in your subscriptio
now SO The Constition may receive it
during January and record il To ycuI
credit. Make your figures very plain,