Arizona silver belt., 1901-01-17
Sketch of Great Packer, Fin ancler and Philanthropist.
HUNDRED TIMES A MILLIONAIRE.
Some of the Traits and Methods of a Successful Business Man-TranS- actions Which Made Him
 Rich and Famous.

'S"' oh sihhPiy ousiheoS hidh. That was Philip D. Armours ex- pressed estimate of himself He was
 6S years old and one hundred times a
 millionaire. The sales of his Chicago
 plant alone were greater than the
 gross receipts of any railroad in the
 world. For twenty years his was the
 western personality most potent in in
 tiuencing the financial and provision
 markets of the world. No great busi-
 ness was so thoroughly the creature of one man, no kindred trade had equaled the quick uniformity of success that attended his, and no comparative en- terprise has been conducted with greater simplicity.
 Simplicity was written all over the man and his methods He applied 1t with vigor and direction from the day he began to pitch hay on his faUher's farm in the Stockbridge hills of New
 York to the day when he not only consummated the defeat of the great grain spectators who combined to swamp him, but added to bis millions by the operation.
 Get at the truth, the simple truth" was part of his instructions to his lieu tenants in every new venture he made, from testing new piece of machinery to invading new foreign market. His boyhood ambition was to be a great orator, but he found out that he mad not the gift ol eloquence. He ad. mitted that the discovery pained hlm, but as it was the simple truth he turned his energi ies in the direction of his talents.
 ''l have no talent for anything but business" he said a hundred times. but did want to be an orator."
 The same ability to get at the facts and apply them when boy enabled the millionaire packer to get buttons ss well as beetsteak out of steer, to anticipate the panic of 1893, and by forestslling the scarcity of cash assets 10 turn disaster into security and even gains for himself and his friends
 sTARTED FOR CALIFORNIA.
 When he was F years old, having saved little money from his earnings as clerk in the general store at >tockbrldge, he became interested in the tales of sudden wealth to be had in the gold diggings of California, and sef out for the Fl Dorado with an Ill equipped party of argonauts. He was obliged to walk most of the way, out he got there and worked with pick and spade long enough to learn that placer mining was neither a certain uOr sudden way to riches. He found that more money could be made by piping water to the miners than by digging for the dust. It wasn't so fascinating, and he didn't go out there to run water works, but he found out the truth about the situation ana applied it directly. He refused to be- neve in luck, and had no patience with the dreams that lured many min CTS to strike 1t rich" and more to en- turing poverty. Having got at the Iacts he quickly turned them into profit, and came back to the east with s4,OOo-the nucleus of his later almost .ucalculsble commercial enterprises.
 His father was d hard headed farmer of scottish descent and his mother vas a New England school teacher. The waUchw ord of the father was work" and of the mother "knowl- edge" They found a mutual ground ,or their valudtion of "system,D and
 ne Armour boys were systematically
 alsed and taught and worked so that hey had few false notions of life ana 70 vicious habits. Phil probably dis ,ppointeu his fathers theories about work, for he quit the profitless toll of n unpaid farm apprentice and went behind the counter of the village store. where the labor was lighter and the hours shorter. Whether his mother approved of his conduct at school ano iIter at the CaZenovia seminar is doubtful, for his career at both was brief, and he was expelled from the latter because he broke rule hich forbade the boys to take the girls buggy riding on Sunday. As he was oat l7 when he gave up his place in the village store, in which he had B Jent two years, it is not probable that his book learning surpassed the three Rs.
 WAS A REASONABLE oPTIMIsT.
 He took with him, however, by the grace of his mother and the force of his father, some native qualities that, for his purpose, served better than scholarship or airy ambitions. DIli- gence, honesty, affection and per feet physique made up his simple equipment of positive merits, and in time he made them accomplish much that imagination, ingenuity, learning and even genius have failed to encom- pass. His first fort being to get at