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Show STRIP CATTLEMEN HOLD MEETING Cattlemen of the Arizona strip gathered here Tuesday to meet with members of the Arizona livestock live-stock sanitary board who were here to investigate conditions of the cattle industry. The two members of the board are Dan McKinney and Roy Tubervale. The third mem(ber of the board was not present. A luncheon was held at the Liberty Lib-erty hotel ait noon attended by 32 persons, 27 of whom were Arizona Ari-zona tax payers and representing 90 per cent of the cattle owners of the northern part of Mohave county. The trip to this section by the board members was a continuation of an investigation started last winter when, several stockmen here went to Phoenix to meet with the board. At that time they urged the retention of Perley Morris, as inspector, and the visit of McKinney McKin-ney -and Tubervale here Tuesday was principally for the purpose of learning the attitude of the stockmen toward his reappointment. reappoint-ment. Judge D. H. Morris was chairman of the meeting and explained ex-plained to those assembled that Morris' work as an officer had always al-ways been satisfactory and -that he had yet to hear a complaint against him. Nearly everyone at the ' meeting was called on to give his views and it was practically practi-cally unanimous that Morris be reappointed. The two members of the board also spoke briefly, stating that it was their purpose to get at tne facts, learn the wishes of the cattlemen, cat-tlemen, investigate their problems, and then make a decision. |