The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-02-15
New President of the
Dairymen's Association.

Dairymen'S Association all KNOW CnaC
the destinies of their organization have
been and are in the hands of good
officers. The presidents chair has
been filled for years by Mr.. H. l..
Blanchard, than whom there is no
more level-headed and fair-minded man
in the state. At each recurring con-
vention of the association Mr.. Blan-
chard has been elected without any
decided opposition, Notwithstanding
that the friends of Mr.. B. F. Reed, of
the Ellensburg Creamery Co., have
urged him to allow his name to be
used. Mr.. Reed was one of the first
members of the association, and he
has worked hard for its success-and
his friends wanted to reward him with
the highest Office in the gift of the
members. But he refused to allow
himself to be placed against such a
good officer as Mr.. Blanchard had
proved himself, until at the last con-
vention, held at North Yakima the
last three days of December, he re-
ceived the assurance of unanimous
support if he would run. This he con-
scented to do, especially as Mr.. Blan-
chard felt he had served in the capac-
ity of president long enough and was
willing to let some one else assume
the office. Thus Mr.. Reed was chosen
president without dissenting vote.
The fine illustration on the first
page of this issue Of The Ranch rep
resents the new president of the State
Dairymen's Association. He is just
forty years of age and has had varied
experience in life. He was born in
Warsaw, Illinois, and at the age of
five went with his parents to Topeka,
Kansas. Here he obtained his early
education. His father was interested
on a large scale in the mercantile
business and in stOck-raising, and it
was in the latter that Mr.. Reed re-
ceived his liking for the business he
has followed more or less since. When
he was about seventeen he started for
the mining camps of Colorado with an
OK team. There he spent about
year. after which he went on to Cali
fornia. Not finding things to his lik-
ing there, he finally came to Puget
Sound in the early sos, when Seattle
and Tacoma were but small towns. He
was appointed material agent for the
Northern Pacigc Railroad Company at
Puyallup, from which point he shipped
material for the construction of the
road between Seattle and Tacoma.
After finishing his contract with the
railroad company he went to British
Columbia, where he remained but
short time, going from there into Old
Mexico and then to New Orleans.
He finally returned to his old home
of Topeka, and went into the mercan-
tile business, where he accumulated
considerable wealth. For number
of years he was one of the largest
stockholders in the First National
bank, at Manhattan, Kansas. He after
ward disposed of his business inter
ests in Kansas and travelled quite ex-
tensively. His love for the Sound coun-
try was strong, and he decided to re-
turn. In 1900 he obtained possession
of the Hotel Horton, in Ellensburg, and
later he located in the valley and en-
gagged in stock-raising. In 1895 he
organized the Ellensburg Creamery Co.
and by straightforward business prin-
ciples and unbounded energy he has
made the dairy business one of the
leading industries in this valley. He
is also president of the Miller-Reed-
Pease Co., Inc, of Seattle, wholesale
dealers in creamery and poultry prod
ucts.