Show 1 I TRAVELING PASSENGER AGENTS i I Organized and Beady for Business at I New Orleans New Orleans Nov 10Tile annual convention of Traveling Pasrieiifjcr Agents was opened here today Ireyi Irnt Fitzgerald presiding Nearly 500 t members were present including soy oral from Canada Tho morning sos S ion wan devoted to welcoming wel-coming addresses El Paso Portland Or and Mexico City arc after the 1JOl convention I I Railway Notes I General Manager Wells of the San Pedro Is laid up with an attack of lum hago K J Seymour general agent for the S Chicago Xorthwpaicrn at Chicago and E Hoops general agent at Denver I for the same road will arrive here to morrow to stay a few days Their trip Is a purely business one Twentynine miles of double track have been laid by the Union Pacific between be-tween Boric Wyot and Buford and arc now in operation This gives thu road double track all the way from Cheyenne to Laramie except for a short distance There arc also ten miles of double track from Cheyenne cast to Archer Ar-cher A story was published last night to the effect that surveys are to be made Immediately for a road between Murys vale and a point on the Colorado river called Swamp Point to open up rich coal lands and connect with the old survey sur-vey of the Santa Fe When asked about It last night one of the highest of the Denver Rio Grande officials here denied the story saying that while surveys were being made all the time there Is no such project on foot now to his Knowledge S |