Sol Weatherby bought from Upton and Upton, San Angelo,

one load of steers weighing 990 pounds at 28 cents. The steers were to be shipped to a feedlot in Illinois.

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Hereford enthusiasts ran a foot race at Chicago Tuesday to shake the hand of a Big Spring, Texas, boy who showed his fat whiteface steer, "Big Spring Special" to the grand championship of the International Livestock Exposition. He defeated a Shorthorn and an Angus for the coveted honor.

The lad is Lloyd Robinson, 19 year-old 4-H club member who spent a year grooming a calf from the T-O Ranch at Raton, New Mexico, in order to cash in on the biggest of all cattle shows.

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Lambs are about gone from wheat fields around Garden City and Syracuse, Kansas, L. F. Sneed of San Angelo said this week.

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Ernest Knott of Clovis has bought a car of mixed calves from A. S. Foster of Artesia, New Mexico, at 31 cents a pound; he will winter these at Mountainair, where he is also wintering 110 head of yearlings.

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Dr. B. W. Shelton of Miami, Oklahoma, has bought 31 Angus heifers, bred, averaging 600, through Ben Sheppard, order buyer at Springfield, Missouri, at $185 per head.

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E. F. Galt, president of the First National Bank of Great Falls, Montana, reports the following contracts, all made last week:

Augusta area, 1600 fleeces at $1; Cascade area, 4000 fleeces at $1.03 Armington area, 1600 whiteface yearling ewe fleeces at $1 and 200 blackface yearling ewe fleeces at 92 cents.

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Harvey Martin of San Angelo has bought 512 lambs delivered at Eldorado and 190 delivered in San Angelo from E. G. Cofield of Del Rio at 27½ cents a pound; they were muttons, in the wool. Martin also bought 200 cows and calves from George Whitehead of Del Rio; her received 158 pairs this week and will the rest in a week or two.

45 YEARS AGO

Mack Forrester of Amarillo sold 112 cows weighing 1125 pounds to California packers at 10 cents a pound, through Sam Elliott of Amarillo.

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Buster Schott, Gruver, Texas, sold 147 mixed breed steers weighing 615 pounds at $13.25 to Art Crawford of Amarillo; these were delivered Nov. 27.

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Lee Merrill & Son, Clovis, N.M., last week bought 420 light mixed calves in the Roswell area at $16.75 on heifers and $21 on steers.

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Leroy Russell, San Angelo, this week bought 800 wooled feeder lambs from Nick Reed, Sterling City, for delivery right away at $16.50 cwt.; these are expected to weigh around 80 pounds.

40 YEARS AGO

Ray Logsdon of Hollis, Okla., bought, on northern order, 89 feeder heifers weighing about 800 pounds at $20.50 and 45 steers weighing 781 at $23 for delivery this week from R.B. Elliott of Happy.

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Bill Hulett of Amarillo sold 153 steer calves weighing 407 pounds at $28.25 and delivered them last week to John Pittman and Owen Seamands of Hereford, Texas.

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D.A. Donelson Jr., Stratford, sold 90 heifer yearlings expected to weigh about 675 pounds at $23 for Dec. 15-30 delivery to Colorado feeders.

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Ed Caskey of Amarillo sold 131 two year-old bred heifers at $181 per head and delivered them last week to a New Mexico buyer.

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D.G. Cluck, his sons Dean and Bob, and son-in-law Donny Thoreson, all of Gruver, this week sold 1000 long age steer yearlings for Jan. 10-15 delivery off wheat pasture to Bill Hale of Denver at $24.50 cwt. These are described as good and choice native steers, summered in that area, and are expected to weigh around 850 pounds on delivery.

35 YEARS AGO

Sewell Thorp of Panhandle, Texas, sold one load of steer yearlings weighing 710 pounds net at $23 to a Colorado feeder.

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Jay Kerr of El Paso sold 252 Angus steer calves weighing 440 pounds at $28 to an Amarillo buyer.

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N.C. Crites, Clayton, N.M., sold 140 heifer yearlings weighing about 600 at $23 to a northern buyer.

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Robert Ownbey of Spearman, Texas, sold 250 steer yearlings, his own raising, averaging 525 to 550 pounds at $24 to Clayton Kinney of Altus, Okla.

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B.B. Johnson of El Paso sold 336 good Mexican steer calves weighing 267 pounds, located in the Amarillo area, at $31 to a Vega, Texas ranch.

30 YEARS AGO

Tommy Price, Tatum, N.M., sold 3000 No. 1 Okie steer yearlings weighing 650-675 pounds at $31 to Lewis Cooper, Kenna, N.M.

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Allen Swenson, Clovis, N.M., bought 245 Hereford steer yearlings weighing 650 pounds at $31.50.

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Priour-Varga Wool & Mohair Warehouse, Rocksprings, sold 110,000 pounds of fall adult at 30 and 32 cents a pound.

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Caprock Industries, Gruver: 41 steers weighing 1100 lbs., 75% choice, $27.

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Parmer County Cattle Co., Bovina, bought 292 Hereford steer yearlings in the Clovis area weighing 661 pounds at $30.25.

25 YEARS AGO

Master Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 248 steers, 1000 lbs., 55% choice, $47.

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Mike Cervi, Intermountain Cattle Co., Caldwell, Idaho, bought 1800 choice Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing about 825 pounds at $39.25 in the Caldwell area for California feeders.

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Armand and Craig Smith, Clovis and Hereford, sold to Floyd Cole, Hereford, 326 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 456 at $36.

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R.C. Daniels, Benjamin, bought in the Jacksonville area 100 Charolais heifers weighing 485 at $27.

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XIT Feedyard, Dalhart: 102 heifers, 940 lbs., $43.50.

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Cervi Cattle Co., Sterling, Colo.: 500 heifers, 965 lbs., 85% choice, $45.85.

20 YEARS AGO

Fred Vanderburg, Pampa, bought in the Brady area 450 choice Hereford and black baldface steer calves weighing 375 pounds at $85 delivered.

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Price Ranches, Tatum, N.M., sold to a Hereford feedyard 750 No. 1-2 steers weighing 665 pounds at $71.40.

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Bill Hogg, Portales, N.M., sold to a Hereford feedyard 80 No. 1 heifers weighing 707 pounds at $60.

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Miller Feed Yard, Satanta, Kan.: 101 steers, 1125 lbs., 80% choice, $67; 170 steers, 1175 lbs., 70% choice, $66.50; 850 crossbred steers, 1200 lbs., $104.50 in the beef.

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Dean Burúger, Pampa, sold to an Amarillo buyer 170 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 706 pounds at $71.

15 YEARS AGO

Caprock Industries, Gruver, sold out of their feedyard there: 399 steers, 1100-1125 lbs., 55-60% choice, $67.50; 450 steers, 1080-1150 lbs., 50% choice, $67.

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Good news in the Midwest was reopening of the Morrell plant in Sioux Falls, closed by a strike since September.

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Sugarland Feed Yards, Hereford: 143 steers, 1200 lbs., $67.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 196 steers, 1125 lbs., 55% choice, $67.

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Stiles Cattle Co., Cuero, bought in the local area 89 No. 1 crossbred steers weighing 363 pounds at $70.60.

10 YEARS AGO

Bill Porter, Bowling Green, Ky., sold on a delivered basis to Oklahoma buyers one load of No. 1 steers and bulls, no Herefords, weighing 310 pounds at $106.40, also one load of steers and bulls, no Herefords, weighing 400 at $98.70.

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XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 935 steers, 1100 lbs., 50% choice, $82; 500 heifers, 1000 lbs., 50% choice, $82.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 602 heifers, 1025 lbs., 55% choice, $81.50.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 260 steers, 1050-1075 lbs., 60% choice, $82.

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Alta Verde Industries, Eagle Pass: 46 steers, 987 lbs., $80.

5 YEARS AGO

Adult mohair sold at several Texas warehouses this week for $1.70 grease, f.o.b. the warehouse, a nickel higher than last week and about 20 cents above lows of a month ago.

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Vann-Roach Cattle Co., Fort Worth, bought in Oklahoma three loads of No. 1 Okie and exotic heifers weighing 650 pounds at $63.

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Tejas Feeders, Pampa: 659 steers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice, $68; 587 heifers, 1075 lbs., 55% choice, $68.

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Slaughter lambs in San Angelo were scarce but mostly $70-75 on 100-135 pounds.

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Dimmitt Feedyard Inc., Dimmitt: 812 steers, 1200 lbs., 60% choice, $67; 175 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $67; 96 mixed steers and heifers, $67.