Cargo Distribution Growing witb tbe '70s

ETREMONT Forest Products recentI ly opened an ultra-modern wholesale distribution vard at Pier B3 in industry in the Southwes! according to the company.

The firm is the first wholesaler in southern California to build and operate their own cargo handling and storage facility. The yard is also

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New dock facilities to serve the West's biggest market mark the latest expansion of an aggressive, 12 year-old firm. They now have three sales locations in two states.

inventoryof high quality green Douglas fir boards, dimension, long lengths and timbers shipped primarily via cargo by the Moore Oregon sawmills near Coos Bay, Oregon. Western red cedar and hemlock are also carried and other species and specialty items will be added in the near future.

the Port of Long Beach, Calif. The all-new, completely blacktopped and fenced facility was professionally designed to provide the ultimate in selection and service to the lumber adjacent to rail access, thereby permitting Fremont to carry a complete inventory from cargo, rail and T & T mills at one location. The published objective of this new distribution center is "to provide the highest quality, lowest prices, and quickest delivery."

The company specializes in a large

Fremont was started in 1958 by its present officers, Peter V. Speek, president and treasurer, Daryl L. Bond, vp., Art Milhaupt, Jr., secretary. The corporation is wholly owned by its employees. Edward C. Evans, former cargo manager for Weyerhaeuser in southern Cali{ornia, is also a stockholder.

Steady growth has been a Fremont trade mark and the company now has three locations, Eugene, Oregon, Whittier and Long Beach, for both direct mill shipments and LCL deliveries.

Ted Pollard, former manager of Forest Lumrber Co., Palmdale, Calif., is the manager of the new Long Beach facility. Cliff Hill is the yard superintendent.