A Salute to Lumberman Fred Lamon

A S V E'RE writing this item- Fred arrd 1r Frances Lamon are homeward Lround from Alaska, another of their innumerable junkets which began shortly after Fred decided that 50 years in the harness was about enough.

In fact, the popular Bay Area lumber couple began to get the travel bug a few years prior to 1961, when Fred turned over the reins of Lamon Lumber Company to his son, Ralph. Since then Fred and his favor- ite traveling companion have visited cvert' part of the globe except South Africa and Russia , and they're already planning to correct that oversieht soon.

Born in Watertown, New York, Fred attended the Biltmore Forestry School in North Carolina, traveled to Germany with the school, and ended up in Marshfield, Oregon, after graduating in I9I0.

Fred's first job at Marshfield (now Coos Bay) was with the old C. A. Smith Lumber Co. as a logger, scaler and cruiser. In 1913, he transferred down to Bay Point, California (now Port Chicago) where the company operated a big distribution yard, sometimes carrying as much as 30 million feet in inventory.

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