Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1890 — Phil Armour's First Sloo. [ARTICLE]

Phil Armour's First Sloo.

A frequent visitor to New York is Phil Armour, short, stocky, far from attractive in any sense, but a singularly happy man, who has managed to make a big fortune. He cares little for money now, but a time was when the loss of SIOO nearly drove him mad. It was a good many years ago, in the days of gold on the Pacific slope. Armour was one of the numberless throng there searching for fortune. Fortune paid no Jibed to him, however, but finally he managed to get some “washings” that he sold for SIOO. This sum he carefully tied up in an old cotton handkerchief for safekeeping. Then he hunted around for a place tb put it His eyes spied ah old ahd dllapitated coffeepotln. a corner of thq cabin he occupied 51 th three other seekers for fortune. e put the SIOO carefully In it and placed it lovingly on a convenient shelf; then he went about his daily toil. When he returned from work his eye instinctinely searched for tpe pot. It was gone. One pf the partners had tired of work and come home. He had nothins else to do, so; he went tOtdoan house. The old coffee-pot went with the .rubbish, and a fire was made of ft all in a little clump of bushes naarTiy,, Great Was the consterrtattdh when Armour t6Fd what the pot Contained. . Arid how carefully he worked over the fire to rescue the pot! Finally he reached it, blackened and bent, but IJhe money was intact, and no happier man slept in the diggings that night, Thereafter he carried it around with him in a belt. ' 1 And that was the foundation of the Armour millions.