45 YEARS AGO

Lem Jones of Junction this week bought 700 mixed lambs at Van Horn from Cargile and Son at $15.50 cwt. for delivery Friday. Jones also bought 100 cows at Salt Flat at six cents on old cows and eight cents on stockers.

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O.L. Richardson of Sonora last week bought and received, on Kansas order, a load of Angus steer calves weighing 530 pounds from Lea Aldwell of San Angelo at $18 cwt. The calves were delivered out of Coke County.

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Mid-West Feed Yards in San Angelo has bought, during the past week, the Childress Brothers fat lambs from Crockett county, to be delivered next week and expected to total 1000 to 1500 head at 17 cents.

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The Spade Ranch is reported to have sold, within the past week, a thousand two year-old feeder steers averaging 1065 pounds off Kansas grass at $17.50 to Bill Foxley of Omaha.

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Don Estes of San Angelo last week bought 53 long-age steer yearlings weighing 766 pounds at 16 cents a pound; the steers were bought in the Munday area on order for West Coast feeders.

40 YEARS AGO

R.F. Rock & Sons of Nara Visa, N.M., sold to James Raney of Syracuse, Kan., 300 mixed calves, about two-thirds of them steers, at $32 for heifers and $34 for steers for Oct. 30 delivery; these are described as choice quality calves expected to weigh near 425 pounds.

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Mrs. T.L. Griffin of Clarendon, Texas, sold 750 mixed calves expected to weigh about 450 pounds at $33 straight across for October delivery to a Pampa, Texas buyer.

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Oren Gossett, Dalhart, sold 135 feeder heifers expected to weigh near 675 at $25 for Sept. 20 delivery to Pete Pisciotta, Avondale, Colo., through J.C. Clements of Dalhart.

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Hixson Ranch Co., Ordway, Colo., reports the recent sale and delivery of several bunches of choice Rambouillet yearling ewes weighing 125-130 pounds at $29 per head. The firm also delivered, recently, several bunches of Columbia-Rambouillet crossbred yearling ewes weighing around 130 pounds at $28 per head at the ranch.

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Mike Balentine of Morse, Texas, sold 240 steer yearlings expected to weigh near 675 pounds at $25 for Oct. 15 delivery to Shirley Fox, Amarillo.

35 YEARS AGO

Sonora Wool & Mohair Co. sold its 650,000-pound accumulation of fall mohair at new high prices for the year: 96½ cents for adult, $1.06½ for yearling and $1.51½ for kid hair, Louie Ragland, San Angelo, representing Collins & Rowbotham, was the buyer.

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Lewis and Howard Kinkead of Tucumcari, N.M., sold 490 mixed calves expected to weigh near 500 pounds at $26 and $28 for Oct. 15 delivery to Garland Motley of Hollis, Okla.

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J.D. Herster of Stratford sold 61 heifer yearlings weighing 630 pounds at $23 to a local buyer.

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Union Feed Yards Inc., had 24,158 cattle on "hot" feed and 16,460 cattle on growing rations for a total of 40,618 head on hand as of Sept. 13, reports Sid Moller, general manager.

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Gerald Hartgraves of Eldorado sold and delivered 200 choice Angus calves to an Illinois buyer at $25 and $28; the heifers averaged 395 after a replacement cut, and the steers averaged 430.

30 YEAR AGO

Six selected cattle feeding states — Texas, California, Arizona, Iowa, Nebraska, and Colorado — had a total of 5,385,000 cattle and calves on feed Sept. 1, up 11 percent from a year earlier.

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Ferol Smith, Des Moines, N.M., bought 137 Hereford and Angus 2-4 year-old cows weighing about 900 pounds at $225 per head and the 300-pound calves on them at $75 a head from John Zurick, Stead, N.M.

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Swift & Co. has bought two loads of field and pasture fed lambs in the San Angelo area at $25-25.50, in No. 2 pelts and weighing about 85 pounds.

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Hi-Plains Feed Yard, Friona, sold a load of 865 pound heifers, grading 65 percent choice, at $25.75 to a Texas packer.

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Spur Feeding Co., Glendale, Ariz., sold 20 loads of mostly choice 1000 pound steers at $27 to Phoenix packers; two loads of similar steers at $27.25 to Phoenix packers; eight loads of good and choice 975 pound Okie and crossbred steers at $26.50 to California packers; and 10 loads of good 975 pound crossbred steers at $25.50 to a Phoenix feeder.

25 YEARS AGO

Bill Tarpley, Merkel, sold 121 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 621 pounds at $60 to Darwin Aaberg, Mammoth, Ill.

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Swift & Co. bought 14,000 Utah and Wyoming range lambs at $32 from the Hatch Ranch, Evanston, Wyo; they were expected to sort 60-65 percent fat.

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Sooner Beef Producers, Guymon, Okla.: sold 200 steers weighing 1100 lbs., 80% choice, $45.

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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos: sold 60 heifers weighing 750 lbs., mostly good, $47.

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Wheatheart Feeders, Perryton: sold 164 heifers weighing 950 lbs., 75% choice, $44.75.

20 YEARS AGO

Kenny Call, Newhall, Calif. won the world champion steer roping title at the National Steer Roping Finals in Laramie, Wyo. despite being kicked between the eyes in the seventh of 10 rounds and taking 123.71 seconds on that steer.

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O.C. Kimble, Clayton, N.M., sold to a Dumas feedyard 800 mixed breed steers weighing about 700 pounds at $62.25.

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Bill Tarpley, Merkel, sold to a Galesburg, Ill. farmer-feeder 252 choice thin Hereford steers weighing 597 pounds at $62.

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Sol Bouziden and Sons, Alva, Okla., bought in Eastern Kansas 600 No. 1 steer yearlings, some weighing 700 pounds at $59, some 750 at $58 and some 800 at $57.

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Morales Feed Lots, Devine: 410 heifers, 700-900 lbs., $52.

15 YEARS AGO

Roy Cooper, Durant, Okla., won the 1983 world's championship in steer roping at Laramie, Wyo., over the favored reigning champion, Guy Allen, Lovington, N.M.

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Watt Matthews, Albany, sold to a Texas buyer 475 Hereford steers weighing 720 pounds at $56.50 delivered.

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Davis Bros., Milnesand, N.M., sold to a Hereford, Texas feedyard 125 Hereford and Brangus cross steers weighing 800 pounds at $53.

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Lyman Graham, Caprock, N.M., sold to an Oklahoma buyer about 800 mixed steers weighing 650 pounds at $55, also 300 similar heifers weighing 625 at $48, both delivered prices.

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Master Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 620 steers, 1100-1150 lbs., 60% choice, $60; 65 steers, 1100-1150 lbs., 60% choice, $59.50.

10 YEARS AGO

F&F Cattle Co., Mosquero, N.M., sold to Colorado buyers for October to November delivery 2040 No. 1-1½ steers of Mexican origin, to weigh 750 pounds at $80.25 f.o.b. the ranch.

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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos: 45 crossbred heifers, 950-975 lbs., $68.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 343 heifers, 1000 lbs., 65% choice, $69.25; 389 heifers, 985 lbs., 65% choice, $68.50.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 75 heifers, 1075 lbs., 60% choice, $70.

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The Midwest electronic lamb sale sold a load in Minnesota and a load in Iowa at a base price of $62 and another Iowa load at $61.50.

5 YEARS AGO

Texas adult mohair showed signs of life this week as prices jumped about 10 cents to reach 85 cents grease f.o.b. the warehouses. Some spring kid hair also moved this week at $1.25.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in New Mexico for October delivery three loads of No. 1-1½ Okie heifers to weigh 625-650 pounds at $84.50.

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Reeves County Feeders, Verhalen: 280 heifers 750 lbs., 45% choice, $74.

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PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 76 heifers, 1075 lbs., 60% choice, $75.

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San Angelo Feed Yards, San Angelo: 120 heifers, 750 lbs., $74.