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Show CHART OF GREAT USEFULNESS Record Said to Have Saved Many Thousands of Dollars for Big Telegraph Company. One of the big telegraph companies not long ago completed a chart that shows all the wires used in the land service of the company. ' There are about 1,000,000 miles oT wires in all. Each wire is represented by a line on the chart, and a number, with figures to Indicate the material and the gauge. The chart also shows the route of every cut-in, whether it is for operation opera-tion or for testing. Besides that, the map shows the cross connections be tween the various wires in each office, and even the office assignments of the various circuits. The chart covers 70 sheets, each three feet by five. If mounted edge to edge it would form one map 27 feet high and 65 feet long. In order to handle the record conveniently, the sheets are mounted in steel frame panels pan-els that swing like the leaves of a gigantic book. It is said that this ' chart Is the first single comprehensive record of the material, the size, the position and the purpose of every wire operated by the Western Union Telegraph Tele-graph company. Having such a record has already saved thousands of dollars dol-lars that might have been spent in construction work had not the chart '- shown an alternative scheme that wa better. |