Show Personal and General President Ingalls of the Big Four says I have to look after 3200 miles of road and I have never seen the railroad business as good it is now The busiest month in the history of the Chesepeake and Ohio road was the month of November just ended Yes sir we did a large business in November and at less expense than ever before An eastern railroad is replacing the hand signal lamps on some of its divisions with a combination lamp placed on a post near the tracks I has a large convex glass front something like a headlight and it is equipped with a series of red and green glass slides which can be slipped in a moment mo-ment by the flagman The Great Northern opened to traffic on December 7121 miles on its Pacific extension exten-sion m Montana Tracklaying is progress ing at the rate of two miles a day andit is expected that the Ro ckles will be reached by Christmas Two thousand men are at work Supplies are being concentrated in the Flathead valley west of the mountains where a force of several thousand men will be employed and the line hurried to its terminus ter-minus on Puget sound |