Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-05-25
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The Atlanta Constitution't
Great Offer of l900-Thl
Receipts at New Orleas
from September to April |
Full Statistics Given or
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Readers.
The Atlanta Constitution GERS a
SO 600 cash prize contest for lnuary
February and March, 1907 as fopws:
To the person sending yefly sub
scriptson to the Weekly Constrtion, to-
gether with the correct estim te on the
cotton receipts at New Orlehs during
the first seven m ,nths of the'resent cot
ton year September l, 1896 to Adril ],
190O)-
81 500 il the estimate isteceived dur
ing January.
81 900 if the estimate ifreoeived dur
ing February
$50Oif estimate is rceiyei during
March.
The above are for theexact estimates;
there are b sides thesesix prizes rang
ing along $500, S4OO. ESQ, $3.50. Si95,
and $75, amounting p $500, that will
be paid out sure for he six nearest esti.
mates to the New Orbans receipt at any
time during the thee months of the
contest. But you bt it exactly during
January and secue the $1,000 prize
check
AS guide in mixing estimates upon
the New Orleans port receipts, the Con-
stituiion gives bhe following figures
compiled from satisfies of the past four
years:
NO. r'ets NO. r'cts. Total US.
SEASON. Sep l. whole year Crop for
Mich. l. Sep, l. Aug. 81. season.
1895 90 I.62O974 1,s12.l67 7,i573i8.
1896 81 1896. 5s7 2.1O2 470 s,757 1874
1897 9s 9. 432 315 2,576, 165 1I.19e 9e4
1898 80 l,s54.153 2,13O 900 IL PA, $40.
, he C9nstit' TONS ma ket 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 o. the time you
send in your estimate.
1t is believed that some of the Texas
crop. tina; as a rule is sent sn bulk Il
New Orleans, will b" diverted this year
10 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 ot
cotton shipments 10 New Orleans. Thi
is mentioned simply as a pointer il
making up estimates; how mnch to al
low. if any thing, for this Cause must b'
left to each msn's judgment.
The Weekly constitution for 1900 W
be better than ever before. It's specia
news features IRE unsurpassed. The Doe
British war the Philippine and Cubai
operations the busy session OF the mos
important congress that has ever assem-
bled, the beginning of the issue of tn
presidential campaign of this year AM
the debates and speeches during it
progress and the final result of tn
November election, the development
of the south's great industrial NOV
ments; diversified farm and village il
dustries and thousands of other imD'
tant things will found fully and freel
discussed in the We ky Constitntio
ior the year. The Farm and Farmer
I page, the Womans Kingdom, th
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and other Interesting departments Wi
! be ably cond ucted and will be especial
adapted TO those addressed. The rims
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speaking ight out and meeting exacti
" hat it means in the advocacy of til
rue democratic do.trine and in beha
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our plain people, and projecting theI
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