RALPH DENIO.
  
RALPH DENIO.
Ralph Denio is the general manager of the J. W. Denio Milling Company at Sheridan and by reason of his connection with this enterprise ranks with the representative business men of the city. He is actuated by a spirit of progress in all that he undertakes and he never stops short of the successful accomplishment of his purpose. He was born in Longmont, Colorado, on the 23d of December, 1877, and is a son of J. W. and Hattie (Taylor) Denio. At the usual age he became a pupil in the public schools, passing through consecutive grades in the Longmont schools to his graduation from the high school, after which he entered the University of Colorado at Boulder and there completed his course by graduation with the class of 1899.
Mr. Denio then engaged in the grain and flour business in Longmont, where he was identified with commercial interests from 1899 until 1901. In the latter year he became a traveling salesman for the Longmont Flour Milling Company and devoted two years to that business. He was then made assistant manager of the Longmont Flour Milling Company in 1903 and in the same year he removed to Sheridan, Wyoming, where he established business under the name of the J. W. Denio Milling Company, of which he has since served as general manager. Throughout his entire business career practically he has been connected with the flour trade, which he knows thoroughly from start to finish, or from the time when the grain is purchased until the flour is placed upon the market as a finished product. He not only is familiar with the processes of manufacture but also understands the salesmanship end of the business and through careful and wise conduct of his interests he has developed the largest flouring mills in the state of Wyoming and has the largest trade of any concern of the kind in Wyoming. The growth of his business is due to his high standards in manufacture and to his unassailable business principles. He has always followed the golden rule in the conduct of his interests and he has built up a well deserved record of integrity and square dealing. His mills are equipped with the latest improved machinery for producing flour, of the highest grades and his product is of such excellent quality that the output commands a ready sale. Aside from his milling business Mr. Denio is a director of the Big Horn Reservoir Company and a director of the Colorado Colony Ditch Company—associations which indicate his deep interest in the question of irrigation in connection with the development of the arid lands of the west, which when supplied with water become most productive.
Mr. Denio was a member of the executive board of the Denver National Parks Highway Association in 1913, and he was a member of the Sheridan city council in 1906 and 1907. He stands for everything that has to do with upbuilding and progress in his community and in his state and never hesitates to work and labor for those interests which are of public benefit. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Knight Templar and is now the potentate of Kalif Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S. He is likewise a past exalted ruler of Sheridan Lodge, No. 520, B. P. 0. E. In politics he is a republican and does everything in his power to advance party interests yet ever holds partisanship subservient to the public good and does not hesitate to work for general welfare at all times.