Thomson's manual of Pacific Northwest finance Volume 1

In the Preface the first Manual of Pacific Northwest Finance ,Wm O Thomson writes : ... The project has been carried on during a period of acute business stagnation. This was not anticipated. Had the publishers been possessed of a prescience portending the future, it is quite certain that the year 1930 would not have been chosen to launch the MANUAL. Preliminary work began in September , 1929 , and before it was realized that a major business depression was under way, the project had so far advanced that the publishers did not feel they could withdraw with honor. .......

We are particularly grateful : To the students in the class in Investment Analysis at the University of Washington School of Business Administration, under direction of Prof. Carl S. Dakan , for compilation of nearly the entire Real Estate sectiom , and also to certain studentswho did work on other sections.

It is our aim to make the MANUAL an accurate chronicle of data on Pacific Northwest Securities. If there are any inaccuracies in this first issue ... we shall appreciate having them called to our attention so that they may be corrected in the second edition of the Manual. Signed Wm .O. Thomson