The small individual lumber mills of western Washington was used for lumbering activities due the presence of large trees/forests in the Washington . this activities were a source of income for the small individual lumber mills but their activities was not properly coordinated, and this prompted the government and major lumbering mills to come into play and take over almost all the lumbering activities in the area and in the process organize and preserve some forest areas for the purpose of preserving trees for lumbering as well. the Northwest lumber industry was able to come into Western Washington due to the presence of the railway reaching the northwest.
Traute Grier explained her experiences as her being scared of the Russians. She felt nothing could ever be worse than falling into the hands of her Russian enemies that had, just three years prior, taken down Berlin. She is telling this in first person point of view, reliving her own experiences.
