45 YEARS AGO

A.S. Patterson of Roswell is reported to have sold about four loads of fed lambs with No. 1 pelts to Stanley Nielson, buyer for Swift, at $19.50 cwt.

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S.A. DeJarnett of Dalhart sold 154 mixed calves, crossbred Angus-Herefords, to Harris Mullin, also of Dalhart, at 21 cents per pound straight across. These calves, delivered January 3, averaged 457 pounds.

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Ray White of Roswell, buyer for the Ogden Producers, bought two loads of fed lambs with No. 1 pelts from Tom White, also of Roswell, at $19 cwt. White also bought a load of wooled feeder lambs weighing about 70 pounds off the range from Jim Vandewart of Roswell at $16.75 cwt.

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Charlie Silver of Morton, Texas, sold 40 mixed yearlings weighing about 700 pounds to O.E. Joiner of Lubbock at $22.50 for delivery early this week.

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G.W. Williams of Bovina, Texas, sold two loads of stocker cows at 14 cents per pound and two bulls at 17 cents to Tony Dowlin of Amarillo.

40 YEARS AGO

Clayton Tinney of Altus, Okla., sold 2100 choice quality heifer yearlings expected to weigh 650 to 700 pounds at $23 for March 15 to May 15 delivery, seller's option, to a feeder at Lamar, Colo. These heifers are described as choice quality. They'll be delivered off wheat fields.

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Jack Stewart of Hedley, Texas, and Fontaine Elmore of Clarendon sold 77 mixed calves averaging 390 pounds at $25 and $27 to Kenneth LaFon, Amarillo, delivered the last of December.

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Ercy Cubine of McLean, Texas, bought 150 heifer calves weighing 400 pounds at $24 and received them Dec. 31 from David Bean of Miami, Texas.

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J.R. Yell of Dumas, Texas, sold 77 heifer yearlings weighing about 600 pounds at $22.50 for Jan. 8 delivery to Jack Elliot and Tom Moran of Dumas.

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During Christmas week about 5000 lambs sold to Los Angeles packers at $23 for January and February delivery. Last week, another 10,000 head sold at $23.50.

35 YEARS AGO

In New Mexico, the Frank A. Hubbell Co. clip of 137,000 pounds of 12-months wool sold through the Wool Warehouse Co., Albuquerque, to Max Riley of Roswell for The Top Co. at 43 cents.

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John Cargile, San Angelo ranchman and auction operator, has announced construction of a new 2000-head cattle feedlot has begun on land he recently acquired east of San Angelo, on the Ballinger Highway, at the Tom Green-Runnels County line. To be called San Angelo Feed Yard, the new facility will handle cattle owned by Cargile and his associates as well as handling outside cattle on custom basis.

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Triplett Cattle Co. of Amarillo bought 150 short yearling steers weighing 507 pounds at $29 from Neal Jackson of Stratford.

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Fort Worth quoted good and choice wooled and shorn lambs $18.75-19.25 early in the week. Country auctions listed fat lambs as high as $18.75.

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Herschel Berry of Dumas sold 61 heifer yearlings weighing 538 pounds at $25 and delivered them to Fred Bauer of Denver, Colo.

30 YEARS AGO

Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in the 39 feeding states on Jan. 1 this year were estimated at 11,451,000 head, up two percent from a year earlier.

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The 11 western states had 2,798,000 head on feed Jan. 1, 1968, up one percent from a year earlier. California, the leading Western state, was down eight percent, and Colorado, the second ranking state, was up five percent; Idaho, Nevada and Oregon showed decreases and the other states had increases ranging from three percent in Arizona to 32 percent in New Mexico.

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Randall County Feed Yard, Amarillo, sold 225 steers weighing 1000 pounds and grading 75 percent choice at $26 to a Texas packer.

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Jones Feed Yard at Texhoma, Okla., sold 58 mostly choice 1102 pound steers at $25.25 to Swift & Co. of Guymon.

25 YEARS AGO

San Angelo Feedyards sold 949 fed lambs in No. 2 pelts at $34.25 f.o.b. the lots.

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John Baxter, Santa Fe, bought in the Estancia, N.M., area and received the last of December 90 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing 650 pounds at $44.

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John Womack, Canyon, sold and delivered to Joe Bob James, Boise City, Okla., 123 Hereford and black baldface steer calves weighing 330 pounds at $53.50.

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Nettie R. Sherman Trust, Hereford, sold to a local buyer 275 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 600 pounds at $48.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 200 heifers weighing 875 lbs., 75% choice, $40.

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Taylor Feedlot, Dimmitt: 40 steers weighing 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $40.

20 YEARS AGO

Doc Hagan, Yoakum, bought off wheat in the Yoakum area 120 steers weighing about 650 pounds at $41.

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Don Driggers, Santa Rosa, N.M., sold to a Kansas buyer 1300 Hereford and crossbred running age cows at $275 per head.

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Cross Land & Cattle Co., Dalhart, bought in the Dalhart area 170 choice Hereford and black baldface heifers weighing 600 pounds at $38.

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Miller Feedyard, Satanta, Kan.: 111 steers, 1150 lbs., 75% choice, $44.

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Kearny County Feeders, Lakin, Kan.: 116 steers, 1150 lbs., 80-85% choice, $44; 296 steers, 1050 lbs., 70-75% choice, $43.25.

15 YEARS AGO

B&N Ranch, Parsons, Kan., bought from Peck Bros., Erie, Kan. 218 thin No. 1-1½ steer yearlings weighing 657 pounds at $63.25; and in the local area 240 No. 1 native steers weighing 800-825 at $62.50.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in Western Oklahoma 250 No. 1 steers weighing 650 pounds at $64, also 500 similar steers weighing 725 at $63.50 and 300 No. 1 steers weighing 750 at $62.

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West Texas Wool and Mohair Assn., Mertzon, announced the sale of a little more than one million pounds of 12 months finewool for export within a price range of $1.90 clean on some burry and defective wool to a high of $2.32 on skirted staple.

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Bob Campbell, Durant, Okla., bought in the Clarksville, Texas area 152 No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 660 pounds at $62.

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Sugarland Feed Yards, Hereford: 45 steers, 1300 lbs., $62; 139 steers, 1125 lbs., $61.50.

10 YEARS AGO

The Blackwell, Okla., teleauction sold a load of lambs weighing 115-116 pounds at $83 for shorn, $81 wooled.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 603 steers, 1085 lbs., 75% choice, $65; 947 heifers, 985 lbs., 75% choice, $64.

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PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 300 heifers, 975 lbs., 50-55% choice, $64.50.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 586 steers, 1075 lbs., 60% choice, $66; 134 heifers, 950 lbs., 60% choice, $65.

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Phil Gjerstad Cattle Co., Dodge City, Kan., sold for Clark County Feed Yard, Mineola, Kan.: 86 heifers, 1050 lbs., 75% choice, $65.

5 YEARS AGO

Jim Riffel, Stockton, Kan., bought in Wyoming three loads of native steers weighing 775 pounds at $88 and a potload of native heifers weighing 775 at $85, also a load of heifers weighing 775 at $83; in Kansas three loads of choice steers weighing 800 at $86, a potload of native steers weighing 825 at $85.50, and three loads of plainer steers weighing 800 at $84.

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In Midwest direct trading fat shorn lambs brought $67-71 and wooled $64-69.

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Hitch Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 144 steers, 1175 lbs., 50% choice, $79; 916 steers, 1175 lbs., 50% choice, $78.50; 205 heifers, 1050 lbs., 50% choice, $78.50.

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XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 2800 steers, 1150 lbs., 60% choice, $78.50; 200 heifers, 1000 lbs., 60% choice, $78.50.

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Reeves County Feeders, Verhalen: 240 steers, 1100 lbs., $77.50.