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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-06-28
SUCCESSFUL MARLBORO BOY.

Leslie H. Hamilton One Of the Best
Known Sheep Men in Montana
owns Three Fourths Of Capital
Stock of S15o,ooo.
Leslie II. Hamilton of Great Falls,
Mont, his wife and two daughters,
Julia and Abbie, are visiting at j. G..
Stafford's, from which place they will
go to Newport, this state, to visit Mrs
Hamilton's relatives. Mr. Hamilton is
brother of Mrs. Stafford and is presi
dent of the Sage Creek Sheep COM
pany of Montana. He was a Marlboro
boy, and has won his way to success
through the pluck and enterprise
which is characteristic of the sons of
the Vermont hills. The company now
owns 1000 sheep, most of them fine
wool merinos. and they recently sold
100 head at $3.50 each. A recent edi-
ton of the Fergus County Argus con-
tanned the following concerning the
company and its president:
THE Sage Creek Sheep company,
between Utica and Stanford is one of
the largest sheep-raising concerns in
Fergus county. The capital stock is
S150.000, of which three-fourths is held
ny l.. H. IlcllllllOll anu tllt W
Rev. Jacob Mills of Great Falls. The
business is managed by Mr.. Hamilton,
and the company is in a prosperous
condition. The company generally
runs from 25.OO0 to 10000 sheep. and
raises between 10000 and 10000 every
year. They own 10000 acres of land
and rent about as much more. The
quality of Sage Creek clip is the best
in the county.
Leslie II. Hamilton is one of he
best known sheep men in the state
He was born in Marlboro. Vt. in 1859.
He lived there on a farm till 1876. He
went to Nevada, and was employed in
the Quinn River valley on a sheep
ranch two years. He came to Mon
tana in 1873 and worked on a sheep
ranch one year in the Beaverhead val
ley. He located on the present ranch,
near Utica, in 1880.
Mr.. Hamilton married Miss Lizzie
Montgomery of Newport, Vt, in 1887.
Five children have come to them.
They have a handsome town house in
| Great Falls, where Mrs. Hamilton and
| the children reside most of the year.
| Mrs Hamilton has a summer cottage
on the ranch and she and the children
usually spend the summer there. Mr..
Hamilton divides his time between
| the ranch and Great Falls
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-06-28
A Prize Winner in Literature.

Winston Churchill's new novel of
the civil war The Crisis was pub
lished May 25. less than a month ago,
yet it has already sold its 100000
copies and the demand seems unabat-
ed. Literature Is not so despicable
a profession nowadays, for those who
pull out the plums. Mr.. Churchill
has been before the public some three
years, and in that time has published
three books, which together must
have sold their half-million copies.
The authors profits should come to
some $4,000, to say nothing of the
stage rights to Richard Carvel."
which must mean a good many thou
sands more. Altogether this young
writer must be making well over $780,
600 a year at the very outset of his
profession. a sum which would not
seem small to men who by lifetime
of work have gained eminence at the
bar, in the church, or in medicine.
But ambitious young writer's who
gloat on these figures must bear in
mind that they are as misleading as
the reports of fortunes made in stocks.
Such prizes are the very rare eXcep-
ton, and luck counts for quite as
much as merit.