fred wrote:
>
> The Wetsel-Oviatt Lumber Company has sold all its
> land and assets to Sierra Pacific Industries.
>
> One of the last small lumber companies in California,
> Wetsel-Oviatt owned about 17,500 acres and a sawmill
> in El Dorado Hills. Owner Cecil Wetsel said he had to
> shut down operations due to increasingly stringent
> regulations and the high cost of business in California.
> October 15 will be the company's last day of operation.

Not sure why this is posted in the Verizon newsgroup but my father was a
lumber grader in the fifties for Wetsel-Oviatt when their mill was still
at Omo Ranch, east of Plymouth, Calif.

Don in Tracy, Calif.