Thomson's manual of Pacific Northwest finance    Volume 1
Subtitle: ADigest of Securities in, or Pertaining to the Territory of Alaska, the Province of British Columbia, the State of Idaho, the State of Montana, the State of Oregon, the State of Washington.
Contributors: Thomson's Statistical Service,   Seattle, Washington
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Thomson's Statistical Service
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Seattle, Washington
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: Securities -- Northwest, Pacific.; Securities -- Alaska.; Securities -- Yearbooks.
Description: 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
Notes: Sadly a second edition was never published - the hopes for the Manual were dashed completely by the  engulfing Great Depression.    Wm. O. Thomson  paid all  debts related to the writing and publication of the Manual  in full before ending his hard work and admirable efforts in this endeavor.   

  This Notes  section written by his  author's son,Peter Thomson, Boston Massachusetts  in year 2009.
Table of contents: label: Section I
pagenum: 1
title: Government Bonds , State < provincial, County,Municipal, School Bonds; label: Section II
pagenum: 37
title: Banks and Trust Companies; label: Section III
pagenum: 107
title: Insurance Companies; label: Section IV
pagenum: 121
title: Lumber and Timber Companies; label: Section V
pagenum: 155
title: Pulp and Paper Companies; label: Section VI
pagenum: 181
title: Public Utilities; label: Section VII
pagenum: 277
title: Finance; label: Section  VIII
pagenum: 315
title: Industrial Companies; label: Section IX
pagenum: 413
title: Mines; label: Section X
pagenum: 431
title: Real Estate; label: Section XI
pagenum: 477
title: Appendix; label: Stock Exchanges
pagenum: 481-483
title: Seattle Stock Exchange est 1927  Lists officers,committees and Members and Securities Listed on Exchange; label: Curb Exchange
pagenum: 484-486
title: Seattle Curb Exchange  Est May 11, 1928- Lists Officers, Committees and Members / Securities Listed on Exchange; label: Stock Exchanges
pagenum: 487
title: Portland Stock and Bond Exchange Est 1929  Portland Oregon - Lists Officers and Members/ Securities Listed; label: Index
pagenum: XV-XXX
title: In Beginning of Book    15 pages