Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-09
4. K. ADAMS0N RESIGNS AS MASTER MECHANIC AT [. .. SHELTER
Has Been With Company For Over Seventeen Years and Was With Smelter When in This City.

DOUGLAS. Nov. S.-A. K. Adamson is leaving the Copper Queen shelter where he had been employed as mas. ter mechanic for 17 years at Bisbee before the Douglas shelter was com pleted, and here since 1884. Mir. Ad- amson has been desiring to leave his position for more than two years. but was unable to get away owing to important construction. Finding an opening soon after beginning of the present year, he insisted that his res ignation be accepted and had hoped to be relieved at the beginning of last month, but was urged to remain until the end of the year. Now. it has been arranged for Mir. Adamson to hold on to the position of master mechanic until the beginning of the new year, though he will not actually perform the duties after this week.
 As a token of the esteem in which he has always been held by his em- AdPN IT, IT, ONOul. Sll- perintendent, gave a dinner Tuesday night at the Country club in honor Of MT Adamson and invited number to the employees of the company with whom he had been closely connected during his time of service with the company Some of those present have been with Adamson in the me chanical department of the shelter since the smelter was started Cap tain Stout acted as toastmaster dur ing the dinner and spoke in glowing terms of the loyalty and efficiency of their departing friend and associate and of his universal popularity.
 Departure Causes Regret
 Many of the old-timers in Douglas and Bisbee will regret to learn that A. K. Adamson and his good wife have decided to leave this state, where they have lived for more than 20 years "Aleck," as he was known to his friends and those working under his direction, was always favorite, and his popularity was as wide as his acquaintance. While he always in sisted fin getting a days work for a days bay. he never insisted on un- reasonable accomplishments.
 With Tuesday MT. Adamson com pleted a continuous service of seven teen years with the Copper Queen company. He first came to Bisbee, where for three or four years he was in charge of both mines and smelters there That was, before the Calumet & Arizona had started production When the Copper Queens shelter was completed in this city and had been put in operation, Mir Adamson came here and assumed charge as master mechanic, relieving his broth CT, w. NJ. Adamson, who had charge of the construction of the new reduc ton works. Except for an occasional vacation, Aleck has been on the job continuously ever since andhas more than doubled the capacity of the plant and added a number of new features, including the roasting plants and the reverberatory furnaces. He leaves the plant as one of the most complete in the state and with a capacity very near 25,0O0,000 tons of copper per month.
 The friends of Mir. and Mrs. Adam son in Douglas are limited only by the scope of their acquaintance and their departure will be cause for general regret.
 Mir. and Mrs. Adamson are going in a few days to Los Angeles, where they expect to remain at least during the winter while Mir Adamson makes a survey of San Francisco, Seattle and other coast cities in search of place he will make his future home. Dur ing his long years as a wage earnerI MT. Adamson has taken advantage of some opportunities for investment which has resulted in an income which will enable him to take the remainder of his life easy and without worry. so far as finance is concerned. though he may not be chased among the mil lionaires.
 Before coming to Jerome. where he was master mechanic of the United Verde company, MT. Adamson had been general foreman of the Riol Grande and Western railroad with headquarters in New York. He served his apprenticeship as ma chinist in railorad shops in North Platte, Neb.. in the days when Buffalo Bill lived there and was just getting int. r,rnr,innnnn nr n ruild ,unsf chnNu- ]