45 YEARS AGO

Hal Bogle of Dexter, New Mexico, is reported to have bought the Wade Corn lambs at Roswell, around 2100 head, at 18 cents per pound, and the Kim Yoder lambs, around 700 head, at 18½ cents.

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Frank Bond of Sonora last week delivered 240 head of four year-old ewes to a Mason ranchman at $8 per head. They were top-quality ewes, bought for breeding purposes.

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Buster Frier, Lovington, New Mexico, reportedly sold 200 steer calves to Ray Barber with Singer-Brummett Cattle Company of Amarillo at 25 cents per pound.

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Bill Christmas, Portales, New Mexico, sold 60 good age cows recently at $150 per head; they went to the Las Vegas area.

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Phil Lyons of Clovis sold 75 feeder steer yearlings weighing 897 pounds to Swift and Company at 23 cents per pound.

40 YEARS AGO

Frank Ortiz y Davis sold 300 yearling heifers and steers for Nov. 1 delivery at Galistoe, N.M. at $18 and $21 to Rusty Knott of Albuquerque.

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Ray Barber of Amarillo sold, for Carl Franks of Hereford, 100 choice quality steer yearlings weighing around 875 pounds at $20.50 for Oct. 28 delivery to Allen Dawson of Amarillo.

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Lee Hammond & Sons of Clovis sold, to L.O. Hudson of Melrose, N.M., 166 choice to fancy Hereford steer calves weighing 445 pounds at $27.

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Scattered reports from range areas indicate stocker lambs, if available, would cost $21 up for muttons and $23 up for ewes. Really high quality lambs, or ewes either, are extremely hard to find at anything like recent price quotations.

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Rue Wharton of Dalhart bought 200 mixed yearlings at $18.50 for the heifers, to be delivered Dec. 1, and $20 for the steers, Nov. 1 delivery, from Lolan Higgins of Dalhart. The heifers are expected to weigh about 750, the steers 825 pounds.

35 YEARS AGO

W.S. Cline of Amarillo sold 340 heifer yearlings weighing 650 pounds at $23.50 and delivered them to Doc Ryan of Perryton.

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Oppenheimer Industries, Kansas City, Mo., sold 450 steer calves weighing 400 pounds at $30.50 to Curtis Chisum, Dalhart, through Dick Silberberg of the same city.

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Carrell, Cleveland & Carrell, Dalhart and Fort Worth, bought 90 fed heifers weighing 850-900 pounds at $24 and 25 plain heifers weighing 850 at $23, also 45 steers weighing 950 at $24.50 from Clayton Feed Lots Inc., Clayton, N.M. delivered.

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McAlpine & Son of Redwing, Colo., sold their Hereford steer calves weighing about 400 pounds for $33 at the ranch to the same Michigan feeder for the eighth consecutive year.

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Grover Swift, Miles City, Mont., bought 600 mixed calves in the Terry, Mont. area at $30 and $32 weighing about 400 pounds.

30 YEARS AGO

Wool Growers Central Storage in San Angelo sold about 40,000 pounds of spring and fall adult mohair at 32 cents per pound.

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Dean Cluck Feed Yards at Gruver sold 196 steers weighing 1160 pounds and grading 80% choice at $26.20 to a Kansas packer.

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Shorn fat lambs with good pelts were moving from West Texas and New Mexico feedlots at $22-23 and the few fat range lambs in the wool at $21.50-22 in direct trade. Fat clipped lambs weighing 85-105 pounds brought $22-22.70 at Producers Livestock Auction in San Angelo.

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Tulia Feedlot, Tulia, sold 200 steers weighing 1075 and grading 70% choice at $26.25 and 135 steers weighing 1100 and grading 70% choice at $26 to Texas packers.

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Western Cattle Co., Scott City, Kan., sold 980 good mixed breed feeder steers weighing about 700 pounds at $24.25 and delivered to Monfort Feed Lots Inc., at Greeley, Colo.

25 YEARS AGO

The Block Ranch, Capitan, N.M., sold to a Friona buyer 308 Brangus steer calves weighing 460 pounds at $50 and to a Clovis buyer 116 similar heifers weighing 430 pounds at $48.

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Priour-Varga Wool & Mohair Warehouse, Rocksprings, sold 40,000 pounds of fall kid mohair in original bag at $1.88.

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Oliver Lambirth, Elida, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer 200 Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 419 and 454 pounds at $45 and $50.

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John Baxter, Santa Fe, N.M., bought in that area 80 Angus and black baldface heifers weighing 525-550 pounds at $40.

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San Angelo Feed Yard, San Angelo, 180 heifers, 650 lbs., high good, $36.50.

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Randall County Feed Yard, Amarillo: 698 steers weighing 1050-1075 lbs., 70-75% choice, $35.25.

20 YEARS AGO

Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter Oct. 1 in 23 major feeding states totaled 9,777,000 head. That was five percent more than a year ago but 19 percent less than the record 1973 number for this date.

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O.C. Kimble, Clayton, N.M., sold to a Sublette, Kan. buyer 1100 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 757 pounds at $39.

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T4 Cattle Co., Montoya, N.M., sold to a Minnesota buyer 275 choice Hereford and black baldface steer yearlings weighing 800-825 pounds at $39.

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John B. Garnett, Clovis, sold to a Texas buyer 193 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing about 580 pounds at $38.75.

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Miller Feed Yard, Satanta, Kan.: 142 heifers, 950 lbs., $39.75.

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Cox Feedlots, Devine: 90 heifers, 775 lbs., good, $39.

15 YEARS AGO

The Texas adult mohair market has suddenly become active. One of the first big sales was the Producers Wool and Mohair Co. accumulation in Del Rio, about 365,000 pounds of adult hair at $1.70. Del Rio Wool and Mohair sold about 75,000 pounds at the same price.

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Swift Independent Packing Co. announced that it has bought the San Angelo plant of Texas Lamb Co. and will move its entire lamb processing operation from Brownwood to San Angelo.

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Orville Malmstrom, Pie Town, N.M., sold to a New Mexico buyer 550 good mixed breed heifer yearlings weighing 650 at $60.

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Bud Eppers, Roswell, sold to an Amarillo buyer 125 black baldface heifer and steer yearlings weighing 617 and 649 pounds at $58 and $63.

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James Gibson and Catlin Newman, Elida, N.M., sold to a Clovis, N.M. buyer 80 mixed breed steers weighing 850-950 pounds at $63.

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Jay Tulk, Maljamar, N.M., sold to a Seminole, Texas buyer 130 mixed breed heifer and steer calves weighing 421 and 488 pounds at $60 and $68.10.

10 YEARS AGO

Ozona Wool and Mohair Co. sold 50,000 pounds of yearling mohair in three lines. Prices were $5 a grease pound for superfine graded yearling, $3.85 for No. 1 yearling and $3.50 for No. 2 yearling.

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Del Rio Wool and Mohair Co. sold about 8000 pounds of No. 1 kid mohair at $7.25.

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Texas Livestock Marketing Assn., Fort worth, sold in their video auction: from the Pilot Point area 115 Okie and crossbred heifer calves weighing 425 pounds at $84.50, also 180 cutter cows weighing 1000 at $45.

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Dimmitt Feed Yards, Dimmitt: 329 steers, 1100 lbs., 75-80% choice, $68.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 332 steers, 1075 lbs., 60% choice, $67.50; 243 steers, 1050 lbs., 55% choice, $67.25.

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National Farms Feedlot, Parsons, Kan.: 250 steers, 1100 lbs., 65% choice, $106 in the beef; 100 heifers, 1050 lbs., 70% choice, $105.

5 YEARS AGO

Bill Porter, Bowling Green, Ky., bought in Oklahoma 900 No. 1 feeder steers weighing about 800 pounds. He sold 700 No. 1½ steers with just a touch of ear, completely preconditioned, weighing 450 at $93.55 delivered to Oklahoma.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 160 heifers, 1025 lbs., 60% choice, $77; 92 steers, 1075 lbs., 65% choice, $77.

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Lykes Brothers Feed Yards, Edroy: 234 heifers, 950 lbs., $75.

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Fat lambs in San Angelo were quoted $50-54, at Midwest markets $48-57.75. Midwest teleauctions sold shorn lambs for $54.25, wooled offerings discounted $2. Virginia sold fats at $45-50.75 and Pennsylvania $57-62.

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Reeves County Feeders, Verhalen: 300 heifers, 975 lbs., 50% choice, $75.50.