300 AT THE SIGN OF THE STOCK YARD INN 



hence the present vast-extended business of pro- 

 ducing, marketing and distributing the meats that 

 feed the nations. 



The enterprise of the pioneer packers and rail- 

 way builders has supplemented admirably the work 

 of the Sanctum Sanctorum fathers. Great markets 

 for the American steer and the American hog have 

 been found that did not formerly exist. The men 

 whose portraits adorn the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN 

 library have made possible a live-stock husbandry 

 in these United States more extensive than any 

 elsewhere in the world. 



Studied in the light of this relationship to the 

 development of the middle west we will assuredly 

 find in P. D. ARMOUR one of the colossal figures 

 upon the canvas that portrays the rise of our 

 greatest industry. His story may serve to typify the 

 achievements of the men whose pictures may be 

 found in the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN'S main lounging 

 room. 



Born upon a farm in Oneida County, N. Y., in 

 1852, he died in Chicago in 1901, so that he 

 practically attained the traditional three score years 

 and ten. As a young man he set out, with a stout 

 heart, a few hundred dollars in his pocket and a 

 pack on his back, bound for the goldfields of dis- 



