Al Smith of Hereford, Texas, is reported to have bought 200 plain Brahman steer yearlings weighing 700 pounds from Joe Vestal of Astola, Texas, at $13.50 cwt., to put in feedlots at Hereford.

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Gene Benson of Alpine has bought 90 steer calves weighing 447 pounds from L.H. Lockhart of Fort Stockton at 23 cents a pound. He also bought a part load of steer yearlings weighing around 600 pounds from Bill Sohl of Alpine at 23 cents.

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Ernest Knott of Clovis, New Mexico, this week bought 350 three year-old cows from Miller Brothers of Dimmitt at $115 each; these cows are light and are expected to weigh around 725 pounds.

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Malcolm S. Major of Butte Valley, Colorado, recently sold to the Bob Mayer Company, Denver, one carload of top-quality yearling steers weighing 648 pounds at $25.25 cwt.

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Texas wool, good French combing and staple 12-months in original bags, sold at prices with the range of $1.70 to $1.75 clean.

Mohair prices ranged from 93 to 96½ cents for adult and $1.18 to $1.21½ for kid.

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Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers officers for 1953 were Penrose Metcalfe of San Angelo, president, and Walter Pfluger of Eden.

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George Porter of Amarillo has bought 400 steer yearlings weighing 715 pounds at $20.90 from Tull and Ferguson of Weston, Colorado. These were delivered November 14.

45 YEARS AGO

Joe Lemley, San Angelo, bought 100 mixed Angus calves this week from Jack Harding of Pecos and Son Powell of Big Spring. They weighed 475 pounds and brought $22 and $25, delivered off Powell’s Garden City ranch.

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Cal Suggs of Wellington, Texas, sold one load of Hereford and Angus heifer and steer calves at $23 and $25 to Shelton & Son, Clarendon, for Dec. 15 delivery; these are estimated to weigh about 380 pounds.

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Phillip Miller of Hereford sold 79 mixed breed steer yearlings weighing 590 pounds at $20, delivered Nov. 15 to Al Smith, Hereford.

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Paul Newman of Lubbock, Texas, bought one load of purebred horned cows weighing near 1000 pounds, with 400-pound calves on them, at $250 per pair from Gene Fullingem of Petersburg.

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A.N. Dilley of Borger, Texas sold, to Rogers & Brown, Snyder, 246 mixed age stocker cows at $150 each and 13 three year-old bulls at $225 each.

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G.W. Clark of El Paso is reported to have sold 175 Angus steer yearlings out of Mexico, weighing 450 pounds, at $25 delivered at El Paso, and 450 Hereford steer yearlings weighing about the same at the same price, delivered at Presidio, to A.N. Dilley of Borger.

40 YEARS AGO

Jim Taylor of Stratford sold 175 good quality Hereford steer yearlings weighing 540 pounds at $28.25 and 100 heifer yearlings weighing 565 at $25.25 and delivered them last week to Colorado feeders.

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Robert Wheeless of San Angelo last week bought and shipped 66 head of 982-pound feeder steers from Cecil Meador, Eldorado, at $24 cwt. He also bought and shipped from area auctions during the past couple of weeks a total of 500 fleshy steers weighing 550-580 pounds at $25 to $26 on order to Marshalltown, Iowa.

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Dayton Barkley of Gruver has bought, for Vann Cattle Co., Fort Worth, 200 good Okie steers in that area for Jan. 1-15 delivery at $24.

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George Porter, Amarillo, bought 150 cutback cows weighing 842 at $12 cwt., and 51 mixed calves weighing about 270 at $78 per head and received them last week from Ross Rentfro, Amarillo.

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The hunting season is progressing satisfactorily in the Hill Country, reports Ace Reid of Kerrville who sometimes signs his name simply "WGCC", which stands for "World’s Great Cowboy Cartoonist."

"The only incident I’ve come across that was unusual was caused by a banker that was hunting on my place," Reid said. "About dark, he asked where the bathroom was. I told him there was a fine pool of water just below the house which is the same temperature the year around — ice cold. Otherwise, I told him, the whole ranch was available. He jumped in his car and went to town to the hotel. The more I see of bankers the less I know about them."

35 YEARS AGO 

Veribest Cattle Feeders, San Angelo, sold five loads of steers weighing around 1050 pounds and grading 70-80 percent choice at $25.50 to Texas packers.__________ Jack Funderburg of Amarillo bought 250 good 650-pound heifers at $24 out of Moody Farms Feedlots at Pampa.

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Hereford Cattle Feeders Inc., Hereford, sold 164 good and a few choice 748-pound heifers at $24.50 to a Shreveport, La. packer.

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Leonard Freis of Amarillo bought 452 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing 725-750 at $23.50 from George Doshier of Vega.

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Tom Reed and Charlie Griswold of Amarillo sold 232 heifers weighing 700-750 and grading 60 percent choice at $24.50 out of Hereford Feed Yards to a Texas packer.

30 YEARS AGO

San Angelo Feedyards, San Angelo, sold 1000 fed lambs weighing 100 pounds at $29.50 f.o.b. the feedlot.

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Buckeye Land & Livestock Co., Eaton, Colo., sold 2100 shorn fed lambs weighing about 120 pounds at $29.50 delivered Denver; they carry a 10 cents cwt. discount for each pound over 110.

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Cecil McCoury, Lampasas, sold 300 Angus, Charolais and Brahman cross calves weighing 500 pounds at $43 and $48 to a Northeast Texas buyer.

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John Baxter, Santa Fe, N.M., bought in the Encino, N.M. area 50 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 580 pounds at $45.

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Ducky Gallo, Dalhart, bought and received off grass in the Clayton, N.M. area 400 Okie heifers weighing about 500 pounds at $38.75.

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Blair Cattle Co., Blair, Neb.: 224 steers weighing 1070-1080 lbs., 90% choice, $32.75.

25 YEARS AGO

Joe Baird, Clayton, N.M., sold to Floyd Whatley, Nara Visa, N.M., 135 Hereford and black baldface steer calves weighing 440 and 524 pounds at $44.

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Abilene Cattle Feeders, Abilene: 380 heifers, 800 lbs., 50% choice, $38.50-38.75.

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Scott Campbell, Lasara, Texas, sold 420 crossbred cows weighing over 1200 pounds, ages 2-8 years, at $325 per head to an East Texas buyer.

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Miller Feed Yard, Satana, Kan., bought out of the Oklahoma Panhandle 270 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 650 pounds at $35.50 delivered.

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Donald Leslie, Hugo, Okla., sold to a Texas Panhandle buyer 300 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 650 pounds at $39.50.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 200 steers, 1025 lbs., 75% choice, $41.25.

20 YEARS AGO 

Cattle and calves on feed Nov. 1 in the seven leading feeding states totaled 8.12 million, up 14 percent from a year ago and four percent from two years ago. It was the largest Nov. 1 figure since 1978, USDA reported.

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Philip Tate, Clovis, sold to a Texas buyer 500 mixed breed steers weighing 706 pounds from summer pasture at Santa Rosa, at $64.

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Roy T. Fort, Caprock, N.M., bought in the Davis Mountains 450 crossbred heifer and steer calves weighing 394 and 425 pounds at $60 and $65.

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Davis Bros., Milnesand, N.M., sold to a Clovis buyer 220 mostly Hereford and a few black baldface heifer yearlings weighing 700 pounds at $55.

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Radcliffe Estate, Elida, N.M., sold to a Hereford, Texas buyer 63 Hereford heifers and steers weighing 556 and 630 pounds at $52 and $61.

15 YEARS AGO 

The San Angelo auction was lower again on slaughter lambs, mostly club types, light kinds $60-65, 115-120 pounds $59-60, a set weighing 128 pounds $55.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle 160 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 650 pounds at $67; in Central Texas 300 Brahman steers weighing 600 at $65.

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Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was an estimated 751.5 million pounds, 1.4 percent below the previous week and 4.2 percent above the same week a year ago.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 700 steers, 1175 lbs., 70% choice, $68; 106 corriente steers, 1150-1200 lbs., $65.

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Rolston Farms and Feedlot, Verhalen: 141 steers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $67; 135 steers, 1050 lbs., 58% choice, $66.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 866 steers, 1125 lbs., 70% choice, $67.50; 740 heifers, 1000 lbs., 70% choice, $66.50.

10 YEARS AGO

Bill Porter, representing Bluegrass Cattle Co., Bowling Green, Ky., sold out of various Southeast shipping points on a delivered basis to an Oklahoma buyer one load of No. 1½ muticolored steers and bulls weighing 445 pounds at $86.38; to Texas buyers three loads of No. 1-plus heifers weighing 285 at $291 per head and one load of "semi-short" steers and bulls weighing 650 at $72.

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A small sample of around 10,000 pounds of fall kid mohair traded in San Angelo at $1.50-1.75 per pound grease f.o.b. the warehouse.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 402 steers, 1150 lbs., 60% choice, $75.50.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 63 steers, 1150 lbs., 55% choice, $75.50.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 1188 steers, 1150-1250 lbs., 60% choice, $75.50; 186 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $75.50.

5 YEARS AGO

Wilson-Sillasen Ranches, Arthur, Neb., won the 1997 Working Ranch Cowboys Association World Finals Rodeo at Amarillo. The Wilson-Sillasen team amassed a total of 67 points over three nights to best the YP Ranch, Tuscarora, Nev., with 55 points.

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Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter Nov. 1 in the seven leading feeding states totaled 9.39 million head, 10 percent above the same date last year and 12 percent above Nov. 1, 1995.

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Lane County Feeders, Dighton, Kan.: 625 steers, 1250 lbs., $67; 350 heifers, 1050-1075 lbs., $67.

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Montana direct feeder cattle sales by USDA count came to 1820 head. Medium and large No. 1 steers weighing 500-530 pounds made $88-89.

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The Panhandle area moved about 50,000 head of fed cattle Wednesday to bring the week’s total to about 64,000, including 11,300 captives.