45 YEARS AGO

Sam Allison of Sonora is reported to have sold 2400 mixed lambs estimated to average 65 pounds for delivery next week at $18 cwt.

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H.G. Beauchamp of Amarillo sold two loads of heifer yearlings at $15.50 for November 19 delivery to Bob Mayer of Denver, Colorado. These are expected to weigh around 700 pounds.

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E.L. Hensley, Altus, Oklahoma, bought 143 heifer calves weighing 379 pounds at $16 from Bob Hulett of Amarillo for November 2 delivery. He also bought 85 steer calves weighing 425 pounds at $18, November 15 delivery, from R.L. Moore of Matador, Texas.

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Stewart Evans of Mertzon this week sold a load of 68-pound feeder lambs at $17.25.

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Floyd Lee of San Mateo, New Mexico, is reported to have sold 400 steer yearlings to Joe Schwartzman of Albuquerque at 16 cents a pound.

40 YEARS AGO

Jake Carthel of Amarillo sold one load of two year-old Angus bred heifers at $275 per head, delivered last week to a Minnesota buyer.

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Glenn Casey, Amarillo, sold 100 steer yearlings weighing 662 pounds at $28, delivered Nov. 3 to Ray Barr and Leonard Zielke, Amarillo.

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Mid-West Feed Yards, San Angelo, this week bought one load of 83-pound wooled feeder lambs from John Sheen of Mertzon at $21 cwt.

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Cecil Guseman of Hereford, Texas, has sold 550 heifer yearlings at $25.50 and 650 steer yearlings at $26.90 for January delivery to Amarillo buyers. These cattle are expected to weigh near 775 pounds at delivery.

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Gene Cluck of Gruver is reported to have sold about 300 heifer yearlings weighing 625 pounds at $24.90, delivered this week, to an Amarillo buyer.

35 YEARS AGO

California had 1,070,000 cattle and calves on feed Nov. 1, or eight percent more than a year ago, the USDA reports.

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Mrs. Ella Frieze of Grenville, N.M., sold 380 steer yearlings weighing about 650 pounds at $135 per head, delivered to Bill Cross of Lewis, Kan.

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Don Kuper of Dalhart sold 185 steer yearlings weighing 765 at $22 and delivered them to Gooch Feed Lots, Dalhart.

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Walter Smith of Wyoming, Ill., bought 200 steer calves weighing about 400 pounds at $28 in the Romero, Texas area.

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Ralph Britten of Groom bought 110 good mixed breed steer yearlings weighing 750 pounds at $19.50 and received them from H.H. Keahey, Groom.

30 YEARS AGO

Capitol Cattle Co., Austin, sold 400 Angus heifers weighing 558 at $23.85 to a Missouri buyer and 216 Hereford heifers weighing 538 at the same price to a Kansas buyer, delivered off ranges near Springer, N.M.

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Frio Cattle Co., Hereford, bought 280 good Okie steers weighing 600 pounds at $25.60 through Vann-Roach Cattle Co., Fort Worth, and placed the cattle in Deaf Smith Feed Yards, Hereford.

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Mike Ballentine, Morse, Texas, sold 143 Angus steers weighing 620 at $25.50 to a feeder who placed them in Sugarland Feed Yards, Hereford, for finishing. They were hauled 30 miles and shrunk one percent.

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Veribest Cattle Feeders, San Angelo, sold three loads of 70-80 percent choice 1050 pound steers at $27 to a Texas packer.

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Northwest Feed Yards, Buffalo, Okla., sold 271 steers weighing 1075-1100, grading 70 percent choice, at $26.75 to Oklahoma packers.

25 YEARS AGO

Morton's Inc., Douglas, Wyo., sold 2500 fed wooled lambs weighing 106-108 pounds at $35.50 delivered to Swift & Co., Scottsbluff, Neb.

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Leonard Cain, Nara Visa, N.M., sold to Bob Sherrod, McLean, Texas, 180 choice Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 400 and 420 pounds at $59 and $63 delivered.

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Ralph Britten, Groom, bought at Panhandle, Texas, one load of No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 575 pounds at $45, delivered.

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Bob Blandford, 22, of San Antonio has been named rodeo's 1973 Rookie of the Year by the Rodeo Cowboys Assn.

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Blair Cattle Co., Blair, Neb.: 100 steers, 1225 lbs., 85% choice, $40.50; 297 steers, 1150 lbs., 85% choice, $40.25.

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Pecos Feed Yard, Pecos: 120 heifers, 725-750 lbs., good, $41; 48 heifers, 850 lbs., good and choice, $38.50.

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XIT Feedyard, Dalhart: 203 heifers, 925-975 lbs., 75% choice, $38.

20 YEARS AGO

Sol Bouziden & Sons, Alva, Okla., bought in the Fort Stockton and Alpine areas 600 Angus and Brangus steers weighing 500 pounds at $69.

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Ernie Bliss, Bliss Cattle Co., Newkirk, Okla., bought at Purcell, Okla. 190 No. 1 heifers weighing 675 pounds at $53.

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Clavel Bros., Roy, N.M., sold to a Nebraska buyer 350 Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 475 and 490 pounds at $65 and $70.

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Tom Henry, Happy, bought in the Vigo Park, Texas area 108 No. 1 heifers weighing 650 pounds at $57.

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Cure Bros., Hesston, Kan.: 340 steers, 1040 lbs., 85% choice, $52.50.

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John Womack, Canyon, bought in Louisiana 192 No. 2 steers and bulls weighing 467 pounds at $59.25 delivered.

15 YEARS AGO

Richard Maulsby, Nara Visa, N.M., sold to a Kansas buyer 120 home-raised native Angus and black baldface steer calves weighing 495 pounds at $66.

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Bill Porter, representing Clarendon Cattle Co., Clarendon, sold to a local buyer one load of No. 1 preconditioned steers weighing 425 pounds at $71.75.

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Rocksprings Wool and Mohair late last week sold 60,000 pounds of prepared fall adult mohair, stains removed, in a $5.55-5.80 range.

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Gary Dean, Lovington, N.M., sold to a Carrizozo, N.M., buyer 40 pregnancy tested 3-6 year-old Hereford cows weighing 1150 pounds at $450 per head.

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Leslie Hight & Sons, Tucumcari, N.M., sold to a Happy, Texas buyer 135 Hereford and a few black baldface steers calves weighing 548 pounds at $62.

10 YEARS AGO

A load of clipped lambs weighing 122 pounds sold at $61 in Colby, Kan. The Midwest electronic sale moved a load in Ohio at $63 shorn.

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Dumas Cattle Feeders, Dumas: 1000 steers, 1100 lbs., 65% choice, $73.50.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 68 heifers, 1000 lbs., 65% choice, $73; 94 heifers, 1025 lbs., 60% choice, $72.50.

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Seven X Feedyard, Summerfield: 176 steers, 1100 lbs., 65% choice, $73; 90 heifers, 975 lbs., 60% choice $72.75; 58 steers, 1200 lbs., in the beef $115 choice and $111 select.

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Cattle Town Inc., Hereford: 377 steers, 1100 lbs., 70% choice, $73.50.

5 YEARS AGO

USDA figures out of the Texas Panhandle Tuesday had confirmed trade at about 22,300 head, the going price $72.50.

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XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 970 steers, 1175 lbs., 60% choice, $73; 90 heifers, 1000 lbs., 60% choice, $73; 49 heifers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice, $72.50.

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Hitch Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 414 heifers, 1050 lbs., 50% choice, $73; 308 steers, 1175 lbs., 50% choice, $73.

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Veribest Cattle Feeders, Veribest: 135 heifers, 1000 lbs., $72.

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Clayton Cattle Feeders, Clayton, N.M.: 100 heifers, 1000 lbs., $72; 70 heifers, 1000 lbs., $71.50; 80 steers, 1100 lbs., $72.