Excerpt from Detroit and World-Trade

So far as known, the special kind of industrial survey upon which this volume is based was the first ever at tempted in the Detroit industrial district and the state of Michigan. Consequently it was necessary to educate the business interests involved to the point of disclosing information hitherto held confidential. Indeed, much information that would have been desirable proved unavailable, because manufacturers and business men believed it unimportant and had either not segregated the figures required from their general accounts or had failed entirely to keep any such records. It will be necessary, in order to safeguard the interests of individual firms, to present statistics classified by industrial and commercial groups rather than by individual companies.

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