Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-20
MayOrAdamsOnOf Of DOuglas Returns
 From, Long Trip

After a trip of six weeks, during which he visited Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle and steamed up the coast of British Columbia and Southeastern Alaska 2000 miles northwest of Puget sound, Mayor w. M Adamson, accompanied by Mrs Adamson, returned home to Douglas Tuesday
 For twenty-two days he was on the good ship Admiral Watson sailing past glaciers and around iceburgs as he dreamed of the warm days he had left behind him in Arizona, and he might have gone right on into Behring sea if he hadn't been so anxious to get back and see the pavement on Ninth street and how much Douglas had grown since he left. At that, he probably got as near the north pole as our old friend Doc Cook. Mir. and Mrs. L. R. Budrow of this city were with him and his wife on the trip.
 At Seattle Mr. Adamson wanted to zee Mayor Hiram c. Gill to discuss some of the problems that veX all mayors, and the Seattle man would probably have been glad to hear how we handle I. w WIS in this coun- try, but Hi and his corncob were so busy with a street car strike and out in the front yard of his home on a war garden that the meeting be- tween Seattle's skinny and baldhead ed mayor and the rotund chief exec utive of Douglas was impossible.
 Mir. Adamson liked Seattle, just as everybody else does, and he thinks it has the finest shops in the country.
 Arizona Beats Alaska
 The end of the mayors voyage In Alaska was Anchorage, seaport ter minus of the governments Alaska railroad running into the middle of the great Copper river country to Fairbanks.
 Alaska appears to be a great min eral country" said Mir Adamson last night. but I believe Arizona is bet ter. No man over 45 should go into Alaska. It's too cold in the interior, and too wet and chilly on the coast. l The salmon were at this time run ming on the southeastern coast and l 1 did not know there were so many sal mon canneries in the United States. The run of sockeyes. humpbacks and silversides was unusually heavy this year. and Chinamen, Japs and Indians were busy putting them in tin cans. l saw as many as twenty tons of sal mon in one scow and that many fish i Tipping and jumping around, their sides glistening in the sunlight, is a lively spectacle, can assure you.
 Icebures Beautiful Sights
 "The iceburgs are a beautiful thing | to see in the placid Alaskan waters. | Sometimes looking blue, again green. depending perhaps on what you have been drinking, they make a great change from the desert land | scape, and as for glaciers we passed . 500 miles of them on the Fairweather | coast"
 In San Francisco the mayor at | tended the plaster manufacturers
  to go over to American Lake to call | on General Greene. but the people of Tacoma, he saw by the newspapers, gave him a great send-off on his ar rival there The sawmills. shipyards and lumber camps of the northwest . suffered some from l. w. w. strikes, | and up in that country MT. Adamson heard much Commendation of the manner in which Bisbee had solved . the wobblie problem. There seemed no doubt that the German govern ment agents were behind the whole movement. The mayor found solic concrete roads. especially in the country. giving good satisfaction. and most cities the size of Douglas he found not to be as far advanced from a civic standpoint as Douglas. In San Francisco he met a number of Ari- zonians from Phoenix and Tucson International.