A Center for Distribution -- Not only is manufacturing an important feature in the up building and permanency of cities, but a center for distribution has been the principal factor in the phenomenal growth of many place, notably New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver and Duluth. Muskegon possesses equal advantages in securing raw material, or the shipment of manufactured products; mechanics can here own their own homes, and progressive citizens have created a fund with which to purchase and present desirable manufacturing sites to legitimate lines of industry. With our advantages of water and rail transportation, equable climate, healthful surroundings, magnificent waterworks, which draw direct from the great lake three-quarters of a mile from shore; all the conveniences of a metropolitan city, why should not Muskegon march onward? Our nearness to raw materials and the markets of the Great Lakes basin, surrounding states rich in agriculture and dairy products, together with the many other desirable features, which are shown in later pages, make it entirely feasible to build up a large manufacturing and distributing center at this point, and if you have caught the idea that Muskegon holds the key to the situation it is unnecessary to go into further enumeration in these introductory pages. Our illustrations as well as descriptive writings are designed to be representative in character. Many of them are direct productions from photographs, and those not so taken are mostly true representations of buildings now up or under contract.