Charlie Waller of Roswell has sold around 60,000 pounds of wool off feedlot lambs, shorn last fall and winter, at 50 cents per pound to Max O. Riley of Roswell, representing Edgehill-Lukens Company.

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Jim Nail of Albany is reported to have sold 750 steer and heifer yearlings weighing 500 to 525 pounds at $34 and $36 for heifers and steers, respectively, to Irving Ludlow of Longmont, Colorado, for immediate delivery.

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Gerald Poe of San Angelo last week bought two carloads of steer yearlings weighing around 400 pounds at 36 cents a pound from Jess Stephens of Eden; these were shipped to California. Poe also bought one load of young cows with small calves at Eden at $275 a pair; one load of good aged Hereford cows and calves from W.J. Bean of Brady at $250 a pair, and 63 Brahamn and plain cows with 46 calves on them from Hubert Williams of Sterling City at $200 each.

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A.S. Baker of San Angelo, wool buyer representing the Deering-Anderson Company, recently purchased a total of about 120,000 pounds of eight-months wool, with a small tonnage of 12-months wool, at 51 to 60 cents per pound from Wool Growers Central Storage Company in San Angelo and West Texas Wool and Mohair Company in Mertzon.

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J.C. Bell of Amarillo sold 23 seven year-old springer cows at $217.50 to Sid Williams of Morton, Texas, for immediate delivery.

45 YEARS AGO

E.B. Fullingem of Petersburg, Texas, is reported to have sold 35 choice Angus cows, five year-olds, with 250-pound calves on them, at $175 per pair to Howard Alford of Lubbock.

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G.W. Brumley of Hereford sold 125 steers fed 180 days and weighing 1147 pounds at $23 and delivered them April 20 to Swift & Co., Fort Worth.

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Elton Green and J.D. Hance of Clovis, N.M., bought 1216 good to choice mixed calves at $20.50 for the heifers, weighing 362 pounds, and $23 for the steers, weighing 379 pounds, delivered April 15 at Marfa, Texas, from Russell Center of San Antonio.

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A.O. Bales of Texline bought 60 mixed breed shortfed steers weighing 645 pounds at $18.50, out of feedlots at Texline, delivered April 19, from John Clark of Oklahoma City.

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Phil Lyons of Clovis sold 120 good quality stocker cows, 92 with calves on them and the balance springers, at $150 each for 100 head and $145 for 20 head, delivered last week to an out-of-state buyer.

40 YEARS AGO

W.H. Martin of San Angelo this week received 1200 fresh shorn stocker oldcrop mutton lambs from DeWolf & West of San Angelo at $11.50 cwt; these weighed 85 pounds.

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Lee Merrill of Clovis, N.M., this week sold 85 choice heifers, expected to weigh 525-550 pounds, for delivery right away to Midwestern feeders at $24.65 cwt. These have been started on feed and will deliver from Merrill’s lots.

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Triplett Feeding Co. of Bovina, Texas, sold 250 fed heifers weighing 850 pounds at $24.25 to Dick Roberts of Garden City, Kan.; 300 crossbred steers weighing around 1000 pounds to Modern Meat Co., Norwalk, Calif. at $23; and 100 heifers weighing 800 pounds at $24 to Peyton Packing Co., El Paso.

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N.C. Crites of Clayton, N.M., this week bought 400 heifer yearlings from Webb & Eberhardt of Garden City, Kan. at $23.50 on the heavy end, about 120 head weighing 682 pounds, and $24.50 on the balance weighing 590 pounds.

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Maurice Fausett and his son Melvin of Worland, Wyo., this week consummated purchase of San Angelo Livestock Auction Co. The auction has been closed for several weeks.

Maurice Fausett said Wednesday that the new name and opening date of the auction will be announced shortly. He expects opening sales to be held during the first or second week of May.

35 YEARS AGO

The Australian Meat Board announced ship sailings to United States and Canadian destinations with totals of 11,170,880 pounds of beef, 3,967,000 pounds of mutton and 443,520 pounds of lamb.

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Andy Smith of San Angelo sold 159 aged Rambouillet ewes at $8.10 per head and 43 fancy crossbred 88 pound lambs off the ewes at $27 cwt. and delivered them to Mid-West Feed Yards in San Angelo.

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Texas Livestock Marketing Assn., Fort Worth, bought 150 good Hereford heifer yearlings weighing about 550 pounds at $23.50 in the Amarillo area.

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Wool Growers Central Storage Co., San Angelo, sold about 60,000 pounds of 12-months wool at 48-53 cents per pound.

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Several sales of oldcrop fat lambs at $21-22 cwt. were made in West Texas. A feeder commented, "They’re back up where they will break even. That’s the best news I’ve had in some time."

30 YEARS AGO

Boyd Colbert, Clovis, bought in that area 162 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing 528 pounds at $39.

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Cimarron Feeders, Griggs, Okla.: 250 steers weighing 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $34.

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Rafter Three Ranch Co., Coleman, Texas, sold to an out state buyer 350 Hereford and Angus steers weighing 700 pounds at $37.

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Bond-Baker Inc., Roswell, sold 80,000-90,000 pounds at 35-52 cents, bulk in the high 40s.

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Dumas Cattle Feeders, Dumas: 114 Holstein and Brahman crossbred steers weighing 1050 lbs., $32.25.

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Hi-Plains Feed Yard, Friona: 200 steers weighing 1075 lbs., 70-75% choice, $34.50.

25 YEARS AGO

Cattle on feed for slaughter in the 23 major feeding states totaled 10,618,000 head on April, according to the Crop Reporting Board.

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Wheat Cattle Co., Emporia, Kan., bought 300 heifers weighing 650 pounds at $35 in the Marlin area.

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Dumas Cattle Feeders, Dumas: 300 steers, 1040 lbs., mixed good and choice, $42.

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Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was an estimated 700 million pounds, the same as the previous week and four percent above a year ago.

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Kershaw’s K-Bar Feedlot, Lovington, N.M.: 40 steers, 1075 lbs., 70% choice, $42.50; 200 heifers, 900 lbs., 65-70% choice, $40.

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Texas Beef Producers Feed Yards, Dumas: 380 steers, 1060 lbs., 70% choice, $42.

20 YEARS AGO

Sonora Wool and Mohair Co., Sonora, sold 500,000 pounds of skirted wools at $2.50 clean for the staple wool, $2.40 for French combining, f.o.b. warehouse, on the core.

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Jack Stout, Seymour, sold off grass to an Oklahoma buyer 700 No. 1 steers weighing 680 pounds at $63.

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Bill Porter, representing Clarendon Cattle Co., Clarendon, bought in the local area two loads of No. 1 and better heifers weighing 450-500 pounds at $57.

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Leonard Freis, Amarillo and Denver, bought in the Oklahoma City area 115 Hereford and black baldface heifers weighing 675 pounds at $59.75, also 350 similar heifers weighing 650 at $58.75 and 75 more weighing 755 at $56.25.

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Bill Ragland, Brenham: one load of steers, 1090 lbs., 65% choice, $71.25; one load of heifers, 540 lbs., mostly good, $64; two loads of heifers, 710 lbs., mostly good, $62.50.

15 YEARS AGO

Loyd Hackler sold from his ranch at Hope, N.M., 350 heifer and steer calves weighing near 475 pounds at $68 and $78.

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Paisano Cattle Co., Marathon, sold to Buck Jackson, Pecos, 800 choice Hereford steers and heifers, the heifers weighing 441 pounds at $73, the steers 458 pounds at $84.

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Rolston Feedlot, Verhalen: 93 heifers, 1090 lbs., $69.50.

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Caprock Industries, Gruver, sold out of their Lockney feedyard: 148 steers, 1080 lbs., 55% choice, $70; 210 heifers, 1000 lbs., $69.

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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos: three loads of crossbred steers, 975-1000 lbs., 25% choice, $70.50 delivered to the Panhandle.

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USDA reported an additional 7800 Wyoming feeder lambs at $77-80 for Oct. 1 delivery in addition to 30,000 confirmed the previous week.

10 YEARS AGO

Stocker ewes with lambs weighing up to 35 pounds brought $26-36 per head in San Angelo. Scattered sales of yearling ewes were reported at $70-75 per head out of the wool.

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Vann-Roach Cattle Co., Fort Worth, bought in the Texas Panhandle three loads of No. 1 exotic cross steers weighing 525 pounds at $94, also six loads of No. 1 English and exotic cross heifers weighing 800-825 at $72.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 597 heifers, 1000 lbs., 50% choice, $77.

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Luckey Custom Feedlot, Devine: 250 steers, 1050 lbs., $76.50.

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San Angelo Feed Yards, San Angelo: 368 Mexican steers, 1050 lbs., $75.50.

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Reeves County Feeders, Verhalen: 85 mixed steers and heifers, 1050-1100 lbs., $117.50 in the beef.

5 YEARS AGO

Total red meat supplies in freezers increased eight percent from February, says the National Agricultural Statistics Service, but were down slightly from March 1996. Beef in coolers at 292,924 million pounds was up 16 percent from a month earlier but 12 percent below March 1996.

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All sheep and lambs in the U.S. on April 1 were down seven percent from a year earlier at 8.72 million head. Total breeding sheep and lambs was down five percent at 5.67 million head.

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Bar H Feeders, Hedley: 202 heifers, 1035 lbs., 50% choice, $68; 144 heifers, 1020 lbs., 50% choice, $68.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 255 steers, 1100-1150 lbs., 50% choice, $68.

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DGC Feeders, Gruver: 463 steers, 1100 lbs., 35% choice, $68; 143 heifers, 1100 lbs., 35% choice, $68.