Arizona and New Mexico cattle buyers dominated the opening sale of Producers Livestock Auction and Feeding Company at El Paso last week. Receipts totaled 808 cattle, mostly from the Marfa, Sierra Blanca, Van Horn and El Paso vicinities. Some cattle from New Mexico were also consigned.

Jack Drake, one of the owners of the new sale arena and feeding enterprise, said larger runs are expected at the sale as more sellers become acquainted with the firm.

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Max Wertheim of Fort Sumner sold 100 heifer yearlings averaging 725 pounds at 23 cents per pound; these were delivered October 4 to A.C. Garrison, Greeley, Colorado.

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Paul Coffin of Artesia, New Mexico, bought 2500 mixed lambs in the Pinon country at 19 cents a pound; these are expected to cut a 40 to 50 percent fat end and average around 85 pounds. The lambs include the Ed and Bill Watson string and the Jack Merritt lambs.

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Carl Lewis of Artesia, New Mexico, is reported to have bought 500 choice two year-old ewes at $14 each; these have been dry run during the summer and weighed over 100 pounds.

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Walton Kothman of Menard this week sold a load of Angus steer calves at Kansas City at 27 cents a pound, and a load of mixed Angus calves on the same market at $24.74 cwt.

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Triplett Cattle Company of Amarillo has bought 1000 steer yearlings from Cimarron Trust Estate, Kenton, Oklahoma, for immediate delivery at 24 cents per pound; these are estimated to weigh under 600 pounds.

45 YEARS AGO

Darrel Cooper of Gruver, Texas, sold 85 steer yearlings for delivery this week at $19.75 to a feeder from Durant, Iowa; the steers are to be driven 11 miles and weighed straight, and are expected to average about 800 pounds.

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Rue Wharton and DeWitt Dulaney of Dalhart sold 600 feeder steers, described as medium quality cattle weighing around 800 pounds, and delivered them last weekend to Iowa feeders at $19 cwt.

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Aldwell & Johnson are reported to have sold around 900 fall shorn mutton lambs weighing near 70 pounds from their Barnhart ranch to Cleve Jones of Sonora at $20 cwt.

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Brack LaGrone of Amarillo sold 135 good and choice heifer yearlings weighing 641 pounds at $19.75 and delivered them last week to M.L. Happel of Amarillo.

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Maurice McGinn, Kansas lamb feeder, this week bought 900 mutton lambs weighing 75-80 pounds from Bill Upton of San Angelo at $20 cwt.

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C.B. Erwin of Grenville, N.M., sold 130 mixed Hereford calves weighing 450-500 pounds at $20.25 and $22.25 for Oct. 17 delivery to a Kansas buyer. He also sold 150 Angus mixed calves expected to average about 400 pounds at $23 and $25 for Nov. 1 delivery to Dick Buckles of Stratford, Texas.

40 YEARS AGO

Ray Smith of Craig, Colo., is moving 8000 feeder lambs into the Eaton area for feeding; included are 3000 ewe lamb which he bought from Art Rasmussen of Rawlings, Wyo., at 20 cents per pound.

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Sam Elliot of Amarillo sold 505 steer yearlings, described as roans and brindles weighing about 550 pounds, at $24.50 for Oct. 15 delivery to a Kansas buyer; these are located near Council Grove, Kan.

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Rusty Armstrong of Roswell says the sheep business isn’t so bad, after all. He paid $10 per head for some solidmouth ewes last year, and has already sold $9 worth of wool and $15 worth of lambs off them.

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Wright’s Ranch of Creede, Colo., last week sold 113 yearling feeder steers averaging 735 pounds at $28 on the Denver market.

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The Carl Lewis lambs, choice blackfaces from the Artesia area, were delivered this week at Roswell. Ninety percent of them (1359 head) graded fat averaging 96.6 pounds and went to Stanley Nielson, buyer for Swift & Co., at $19 cwt.

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Fay Bunger of Borger, Texas, bought 749 head of Mexican corriente steers averaging 437 pounds at $19 and received them this week at El Paso. Part of these will be wintered on Bunger’s ranch at Pampa, the rest on his ranch near Tucson, Ariz.

35 YEARS AGO

Binford Ranch of Wildorado, Texas, sold 87 choice Hereford steer calves weighing 465 pounds at $30 to Leo Striet of Stacyville, Iowa.

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Diedrichsen & Son Feedlots, Dumas, sold 40 good and choice 900 pound heifers at $25.25 to a Texas packer.

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Pilots, passengers, and even confirmed groundlings are being cordially invited to the First Annual Fly-In Breakfast at West Texas Boys Ranch Oct. 15. The ranch strip is sod, 3500 feet long, and is eight miles from Mathis Field on the 242 degree radial of San Angelo VOR.

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Texas Livestock Marketing Assn., Fort worth, bought 91 Hereford steer calves weighing 431 pounds at $30 from Emmett Fuqua of Amarillo.

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Texico Feed Lots, Texico, N.M., sold 40 heifers weighing 805 and grading 70% good at $24.90 to Swift & Co., Clovis, N.M.

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Jerrel Gann of Guymon bought for Hy-Plains Cattle Co., Dodge City, Kan.., 350 good and choice 1025 pound steers at $26 out of Wheatheart Feeders feedlot at Perryton.

30 YEARS AGO

John Burke, Casper, Wyo., sold 1200 ewe lambs weighing 75 pounds at $32 to Joe Mendiburu, Bakersfield, Calif.

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Chuck Stallings, Bovina, Texas, sold to Dimmitt Feed Yard 650 Okie steers summered around Capulin, N.M., weighing 680-700 pounds at $40.50.

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Wool futures Tuesday reached $1.638 on October deliveries and $1.605 spot, up about 20 cents in 10 days and more than double their level early this year.

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Tom Cobb, Claude, Texas, sold to a local buyer 100 choice Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing about 470 and 490 pounds at $46 and $50 delivered.

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Potter Craig, Clovis, bought in the Albuquerque area 52 Holstein steers weighing about 750 pounds at $36.50 delivered to Texico feedlots, Texico, N.M. for feeding.

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Dalhart Feed Yard, Dalhart: 178 heifers, weighing 875 lbs., 65% choice, $33.40.

25 YEARS AGO

Ben Hall, Ft. Sumner, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer 2000 steers of Mexican origin weighing about 650 pounds at $40.

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Halo Cattle Co., Elida, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer 2200 No. 1 Okie steers weighing about 650 pounds at $39.

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Gene Cox, Logan, N.M., sold to an out of state buyer 1400 mixed breed heifers weighing 500 pounds at $33.

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F.L. Decker, Broadview, N.M., sold to a Clovis buyer 169 mixed breed steers weighing 942 pounds at $37.75.

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Colorado Beef Producers, Lamar, Colo.: 116 steers, 1100 lbs., 85-90% choice, $41.50.

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Lubbock Feedlot, Lubbock: 400 steers, 1075 lbs., 60% choice, $41.

20 YEARS AGO

Kachina Packing Co. at Gallup, N.M., has begun slaughtering lambs on a custom basis for Wilson Foods. Richard Drake, in charge of lamb procurement for Wilson, said lambs being slaughtered this week are coming from a wide area of the West and Southwest, including New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Idaho and Utah.

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Bill Jackson Cattle Co., Antlers, Okla., bought in the San Antonio area 114 No. 1 crossbred steers weighing 440 pounds at $67.30 delivered to Antlers.

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J&S Cattle Co., Fredericksburg, sold out of that area 158 Okie and crossbred heifers weighing 330 pounds at $52.85 f.o.b.

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Leonard Freis, Amarillo and Denver, bought in the Fort Smith, Ark. area 700 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 750 pounds at $63.25; in the Oklahoma City area 21 similar heifers weighing 500 at $55.

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Bill Ragland, Brenham, bought in the local area 131 No. 1 crossbred steers weighing 385 at $64.55; 185 veal-type feeder heifers weighing 214 at $59.40; 89 No. 2 Braham type humpy steers weighing 515 at $56.40; 60 No. 1 crossbred feeder heifers weighing 350 at $54.40.

15 YEARS AGO

A Virginia sale moved three loads of lambs at $69.75 shorn and $67.75 wooled, well above the average in most of the country.

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USDA reported 1700 Montana calves selling direct, including 500-525 pound steers at $91-92 and 500-525 pound heifers at $83-84.

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Caprock Industries, Gruver, sold out of their Leoti, Kan. feedlot: 1200 steers, 1125 lbs., 65-70% choice, $66 and $66.50; 200 heifers, 1000 lbs., 65% choice, $65.50.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 2056 steers, 1100 lbs., 65% choice, $66; 694 heifers, 1000-1100 lbs., 65% choice, $65.

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Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was estimated 759 million pounds, 1.1 percent above the previous week and 1.9 percent above the same week a year ago.

10 YEARS AGO

Vann-Roach Cattle Co., Fort Worth, bought in the Texas Panhandle one load of No. 1 exotic cross steers weighing 650 pounds at $86; one load of No. 1 English and exotic cross steers weighing 675 at $84.

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Fat lambs on the San Angelo auction market brought $50-55 for 95-130 pound weights. At Cornbelt markets fats sold from $51 to $59, in Virginia $48, in Pennsylvania $58-62.

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Clayton Cattle Feeders, Clayton, N.M.: 407 heifers, 1000 lbs., $75.50.

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Veribest Cattle Feeders, Veribest: 405 crossbred heifers, 1000-1025 lbs., 25% choice, $74.50.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 348 steers, 1175 lbs., 50% choice, $75.50; 91 heifers, 1050 lbs., 50% choice, $75.50.

5 YEARS AGO

Vann-Roach Cattle Co., Fort Worth, bought in South Dakota two loads of choice Chi-Angus steer calves weighing 530 pounds at $90, also one load of heifer mates weighing 510 at $83; in West Texas five loads of No.1 Okie and exotic steer calves weighing 615 at $79 and four loads of heifer mates weighing 590 at $72; in the Texas Panhandle 11 loads of No. 1 Okie and exotic steers weighing 750 at $77.

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XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 3084 steers, 1225 lbs., 60% choice, $65; 781 heifers, 1060-1070 lbs., 50% choice, $65.

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Nortex Feedlot, Dalhart: 339 steers, 1125 lbs., 45% choice, $65.

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Feeder lambs moving direct in West Texas brought $93-95. Colorado feeders weighing 90 pounds went at $93.75. Wyoming feeders of 80-95 pounds earned $100-105.

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Champion Feeders, Hereford: 426 steers, 1250 lbs., 50-55% choice, $65; 314 heifers, 1075 lbs., 50-55% choice, $65.