45 YEARS AGO

Giles Williams of Bovina, Texas, recently bought 142 mixed calves in the Andrews area and received them this week. The steers averaged 402 pounds at $38.25 cwt., and the heifers averaged 368 at $37.25.

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Ortho Drake of San Angelo this week sold for Oscar Atkinson of Knickerbocker to San Angelo parties, 400 yearling ewes at $22.50 per head.

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Prosser Martin of Del Rio, "World’s Champion Cowboy Outfitter," recently sold 17 head of two year-old bred Angus heifers to General Jonathan M. Wainright, who bought them for Ralph Lawrence of La Pryor, Texas, at $300 per head.

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Richter and Happle of Amarillo recently bought from Fred Aja of Winslow, Arizona, 700 two year-old steers weighing 700 pounds at $33.50 for shipment to Kansas feedlots.

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Earl Rudder of Brady this week reportedly sold around 400 mutton lambs to a Doole, Texas, rancher at 25 cents a pound. Several small farmer-pastured strings of mutton lambs were also reported to have sold in the Brady area at that figure.

40 YEARS AGO

C.H. Woods of Amarillo sold 40 Angus cows weighing around 1000 pounds, with 250-pound calves on them, at $140 per pair to Tom Blanton of Albany, Texas; some of these cows were registered.

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H.B. Taylor Jr., Pampa, Texas, sold 110 choice quality steer calves averaging 410 pounds and delivered them last week to Nebraska feeders at $20.50 cwt.

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Charlie Lewis, Dunlap, N.M., is reported to have sold around eight loads of horned cows to California buyers early this month at $7.50 cwt.

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Good and choice slaughter lambs at Fort Worth, including some choice with No. 1 pelts, sold up to $19.50 early, but the prevailing market was $17 to $18, which was $1 to $1.50 lower than late last week. An occasional load moved in the country at around $17 to $17.50.

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From the Classifieds: Well improved Nevada feeder ranch, approximately 5000 acres under fence; approximately 3000 tons alfalfa hay, 6000 tons corn silage on hand. Approximately $100,000 in equipment. Good feed yards and 60’ scale. $450,000 or offer. Also have 600-head well equipped cow ranch for sale.—Phil Rauch, owner, Burbank, California.

35 YEARS AGO

Eighty-six bulls averaged $461 each in the Texas Special Angus Bull Sale in Driftwood, Texas. Travis LaRue of Austin sold the top individual at $1550 to Lew Brewer of Fort Worth.

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A string of 900 steers weighing around 800 pounds sold in Wyoming recently at $23.75, weighed at the ranch with a three percent shrink, reports the Northern Plains Roundup.

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The Australian ship, "Lady of Brisbane," left Australia Oct. 17 with 775,040 pounds of mutton and 215,040 pounds of lamb destined for the U.S.

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Dr. G.H. Ricks, was reelected president of the Texas Hill Country Angus Assn. at a recent meeting. Charles Stone, Fredericksburg, was renamed secretary.

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The Crop Reporting Board announced the average price received by growers for wool on Oct. 15, 1961 was 40.6 cents per grease pound compared to 41 cents a month earlier and 38.8 cents a year ago.

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Heavy snows, freezing weather and hazardous road conditions cut receipts to only 1020 head at Clovis Cattle Commission Co. at Clovis, N.M., last week.

30 YEARS AGO

Moody Farms feedlot at Pampa, Texas, sold and delivered 124 mostly choice heifers weighing 1000 pounds at $23 to a Tennessee packer.

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E.S. Roper of Dalhart sold 135 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing 725 pounds at $24 to a Clayton, N.M. buyer.

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Ralph Britten of Groom bought 120 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 650 pounds at $23.50 from Lewis Powell of Shamrock.

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Adolph Hill of Hooker, Okla., and Raymond Chandler of Dalhart, Texas, sold 118 choice Angus feeder steers weighing 775 pounds at $23.75 and delivered them to a Clayton, N.M. buyer.

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F.L. Hommell of Clarendon sold two loads of mostly choice fed steers weighing 1165 pounds at $23.50 and delivered them to Swift & Co., Fort Worth.

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Sam Singleton, Dalhart, bought 600 heifer and steer calves weighing 265 pounds at $63 and $74 per head, respectively, in Tennessee and Mississippi.

25 YEARS AGO

September lamb imports were 4,201,000 pounds, representing 10 percent of domestic production, or 13 percent on a carcass equivalent basis, the American Sheep Producers Council says.

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One of the happiest men in Happy, Texas, this week was Roy "Tuffy" Thompson, winner of the average in the San Angelo Roping Fiesta last Sunday; he tied four steers in 68.2 seconds. Olin Young of Peralta, N.M. took second with a total of 68.7.

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Texas Livestock Marketing Assn., Fort Worth, bought in the Lubbock area 1500 Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing about 400 and 430 at $37 and $41.

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Continental Cattle Co., Dodge City, Kan. and Amarillo, bought in the Clayton, N.M. area 250 choice Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing 549 pounds at $39.

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Prairie Cattle Co., Tulia: 749 steers weighing 1050-1175 lbs., 65-70% choice, $31.85-32.75.

20 YEARS AGO

Texas sheep and lambs on feed in drylot totaled only 70,000 head Nov. 1. That was a three percent gain over Oct. 1 but was 31 percent below the 102,000 being fed at the same time last year, the Texas Crop & Livestock Reporting Board said.

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Fifty-two bulls averaged $509 per head and 93 lots of females, some of these with calves at side, averaged $343 in the Simmental Breeders of West Texas Sale at Producers Livestock Auction Co.

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Henry Barton, Bagwell, bought in the Clarksville area 315 thin Okie heifers weighing 440 pounds at $27.

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P&H Cattle Co., Emporia, Kan., bought at Strong City, Kan., 200 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 800 pounds at $35.

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Herschel Caviness, Causey, N.M., bought in the Lovington area 200 black baldface heifers weighing 450 pounds at $31.50.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 600 heifers, 950 lbs., 70% choice, $38.50.

15 YEARS AGO

Some wooled range lambs sorted off of New Mexico feeders went to packers at $46-48.

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John Cross, Dalhart, sold to a Texas buyer 2700 No. 1 steers weighing 740 pounds at $65.

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Holmes Lovejoy, Milnesand, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer 150 black baldface heifer and steer calves weighing 500 and 540 pounds at $55 and $65.

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Alvin Simpson, Quemado, N.M., sold to a New Mexico buyer 50 Hereford and black baldface heifer and steer calves weighing 472 and 510 pounds at $50 and $60.

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Pride Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 530 steers, 1150-1175 lbs., 75-80% choice, $63; 80 steers, 1200 lbs., 75-80% choice, $62.50.

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Charles Radcliff, Elida, N.M., sold 94 crossbred steer yearlings weighing 790 pounds at $62.

10 YEARS AGO

Southwestern Wool and Mohair, Eden, sold 21,000 pounds of fine adult at $2.31 and 10,000 pounds of average adult at $2.15, this all in original bag.

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A few fed wooled lambs in Utah were sold at $67 delivered.

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Bill Porter, Lebanon, Tenn., sold out of that area on a delivered basis to Oklahoma buyers one load of No. 1 steer and bull calves weighing 250 pounds at $78, also one load of hard and thin Tennessee No. 2 steers and bulls weighing 600 at $55.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 1687 steers, 1115 lbs., 70% choice, $63.25; 382 heifers, 1025 lbs., 70% choice, $62.50.

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Dimmitt Feed Yard, Dimmitt: 425 steers, 1150-1200 lbs., 70% choice, $63.

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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos: 100 heifers, 815 lbs., $60.

5 YEARS AGO

Adult mohair has begun to move at a few Texas warehouses. Several carloads traded recently at $1.40 f.o.b. the warehouse, matchings at $1.45. No trade has been reported on kid or young goat hair.

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Jim Riffel, Stockton, Kan., bought in the Osborne, Kan. area 50 choice native steers weighing 812 pounds at $84.76 and 89 similar heifers weighing 746 at $82.33, both delivered to Nebraska.

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Midwest direct trade had slaughter lambs weighing 110-130 pounds in No. 1-2 pelts at $48-52 and wooled $45-50.

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San Angelo Feed Yards, San Angelo: 120 heifers, 775 lbs., $73; 49 heifers, 650 lbs., $77.50.

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XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 713 steers, 1100-1200 lbs., 45% choice, $71.