Lamon Lumber Company

Organized in San Francisco

A full page ad elsewhere in this issue tells of the organization by Fred R. Lamon, Italph \\/. Lamon, and Vincent D. Ward of the ner,v wholesale lumber firm of Lamon Ltrmber Company, with offices at 703 Market Street, San Francisco. The telephone number is YUkon 2-4376. Telet1'pe. S.F. 67X.

Fred Lamon has been in the lumber business since he rvas graduated from the Biltmore Forest School in 1910. This course included six month' study in Germany. In 1910 he went to u'ork r.vith the C. A. Smith Lumber Co. of N{arshfield (nou, Coos Bay), Oregon. He worked three years in their camps and rvoods as logger, ..ai.., timber inspector, and cruiser. After that he rvas employed for four years at the company's big Bay Point, Calif. (norv Port Chicago) wholesale distribution yard, which at that time carried 30 million feet of lumber. This was valuable experience, for he lvorked as a lumber handler and grader, inr-oice clerk and office manager.

In 1917 he n'as appointed sales representative in the San Joaquin Valley for C. A. Smith Lumber Co. Then in 1919 he u'ent rvith The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, traveling for them in the San Joaquin Valley. In 1920 Mr. Lamon became associated with Wendling-Nathan Company, and from then untrl 1926 traveled for them in the Sacramer-rto and San Joaquin Valleys. That year he rvas apllointed manager of the company's new pine department ancl moved into their main office in San Francisco. In 1936 he and Jerry Bonnington started the Lamon-Bonnington Co. This partnership after 15 years of successful operation is rrrrrv being dissolved as of January 31, 1952.

I{ulph \\r. Lamon, his son, had three and a half years' expcrience rvorking in sawmills before going into the Army, arrcl also had some selling experience in the San Joaquin Valley. IIe put in four years in the Army, of rvhich tluo vears \\'ere in Europe. He entered the service as a private arrrl came out as a Captain. After the n'ar he went to Oregorr to buy for the firm and rvas t.wo years on that job. He ther.r returned to San Francisco, and has been traveling in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys up to the present date.

\rincent D. "Ben" Ward is a graduate of the Oregon State College School of Forestry, Class of 1937, rvith a major irr rvood products and a minor in business administration. His experience includes more than a year as a rigging logger in California and Oregon; two years in a sas'mill at various jobs) three years with United Lumber Yards at Modesto, Calif., and six years rvith E. K. Wood Lumber Company at Los Angeles and Portland offices, in retail and wholesale positions. During the last flo y.or. he gained important experience through his work as a buyer, calling on Oregon mills. - .t\

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