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Fred spent 4 years at Bay Point working as a lumber handler, grader, invoice clerk and office manager, and in l9l7 he hit the road in the San Joaquin Valley for the firm, later known as Coos Bay Lumber Co.

Lamon then spent a year with The Pacific Lumber Company, leaving that firm in 1920, to join Wendling-Nathan Co. in the Valley, replacing Gus Hoover who then went south to represent both The Pacific Lumber Co. and Wendling-Nathan Co. And there's a forty-five year story in itself.

Fred's job at Paciflc, incidentally, was filled by a youngster by the name of Al Nolan who retired as Western salesmanager a few years back and who is now running his own wholesale business in the City.

After traveline the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley territories for six years, Fred moved into Wendling-Nathan's San Francisco headquarters and opened its now thriving pine department. Now we'll have to tip-off the next paragraph because it was there that he got to know another Wendl-

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