45 YEARS AGO

Jack Williams of Paint Rock this week sold a load of fat clipped lambs weighing 100 pounds at $21.75 in Fort Worth through Texas Livestock Marketing Association. This was a new high price this season for that class of sheep.

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Jimmy Mills of Del Rio and Doug Kirby of Ozona last week sold 6000 wooled feeder lambs, weighing 102 to 105 pounds delivered off Kansas wheat fields, at 21 cents a pound.

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Garnett Nelson of Dalhart sold 800 mixed yearlings at $18 and $20 to Bert Peterson, Centerville, South Dakota, for April 1 delivery.

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Clarence Alexander of Guymon, Oklahoma, sold 120 steer yearlings to Roy Sheets of Canadian, Texas, at $20.50, April 1-15 delivery.

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Russell Center & Company of San Antonio this week bought 600 Santa Gertudis steers weighing around 450 pounds from Richard King at $17.50 for immediate delivery.

40 YEARS AGO

George Brown, Channing, Texas, sold 200 mixed calves for October delivery at $31 and $33 for heifers and steers, respectively, to a Dumas, Texas buyer; these are expected to average about 400 pounds at delivery.

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Jewel Avent of Tulia, Texas, bought 100 steer yearlings at $32.50 for part of them weighing 500 pounds and $30 for others weighing 670 pounds, delivered off wheat March 7 from Ray Bivins of Tulia.

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J.R. McCoy & Son, Tucumcari, N.M., sold 100 heifer calves weighing 502 pounds at $30, delivered March 6 to Everett Copeland & Son, Kingsdown, Kan.

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Ray Burger & Son, Groom, Texas, sold and delivered 70 heifer yearlings averaging 700 pounds at $27 to Ralph Britten of Groom.

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From the Classifieds: For Sale — 250 excellent Hereford cows with calves. $335 per pair. — E.B. Walden, L7 Ranch, Crosbyton, Texas.

35 YEARS AGO

Stanley Nielsen, Roswell, N.M., representing Swift & Co., Ft. Worth, purchased 2000 fat lambs averaging 95 pounds in No. 1 pelts from McKnight Feedlots, Roswell, at $20.

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W.R. Weatherford, Dumas, sold 140 Brangus steers weighing 600 pounds at $21 to Holly Sugar Co.

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Jack Idol, manager of the League-Davis Ranch, Benjamin, Texas, sold 357 Okie steers weighing 602 pounds at $20 to R.L. Bland, Ozona.

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Leonard Freis, Amarillo, bought 127 fed steers, 80 percent choice, balance good, weighing 1091 pounds at $20.40 from R.P. Crabtree, Boise City, Okla., also 110 steers grading 70 percent choice, weighing 1225-1250 pounds at $19.50 from J.O. Wells, Pampa, delivered out of the Moody feedlots there.

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Kotara & Miller, Groom, bought 205 plain to medium heifers and steers weighing 585 pounds at $18 and $19 from Vernon Denson, Amarillo.

30 YEARS AGO

Mike Echeverria, Casa Grande, Ariz., sold 839 two year-old Rambouillet type ewes with 65 pound lambs at $50 a pair in the wool off alfalfa fields at Wellton, Ariz; 3650 three to six year-old ewes with baby to 65-pound lambs at side in the wool at $37.50 to Joe Mendiburu, Bakersfield, Calif., plus 1000 similar pairs in the wool at $35 and 1150 two year-old open ewes out of the wool at $32 to Bill Moran Livestock Co., Huron, Calif., the latter two deals through Gene Yparrea, Fresno, Calif.

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Arizona-Colorado Cattle Co., Phoenix, sold about 950 steers on feed at the Anderson-Hamman feedlot, Portales, N.M., expected to weigh about 1075 and grade 60-70 percent choice, at $28.25. These cattle were originally from Mexico and summered on the owners' ranches in Colorado.

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Travis Killough, Fort Sumner, N.M. livestock broker, sold for L.O. Hudson, Clovis, and Paul Hudson, Melrose, 550 Hereford and black baldface steers expected to weigh 850 pounds at $27 for late October delivery to a Nebraska buyer.

25 YEARS AGO

W.H. Bellinghousen, Munday, sold to a Dalhart buyer 400 Hereford, black baldface and a few Charolais steers weighing about 775 pounds at $45.

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Tom Davis, Marlin, sold to an Oklahoma buyer 200 Holstein steers weighing 455 pounds at $40 delivered.

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Bill Porter, Clarendon, bought in the Wellington area one potload of No. 1 Okie heifers weighing about 400 pounds at $35 and in the Quail, Texas area 100 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 525 at $40, all delivered.

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Potter Craig, Clovis, bought in that area 117 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 558 pounds at $41.89.

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Supreme Feeders, Liberal, Kan., bought 500 mixed breed steers weighing 800 pounds in South Texas at $40 delivered to the feedlot.

20 YEARS AGO

Nick Goodrich, Marlin, sold to a local buyer about 500 No. 1 heifers weighing about 600 pounds at $75.

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Potter Craig, Clovis, bought in that area one load of Holstein steers weighing 785 pounds at $67.50.

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Stiles Cattle Co., Cuero, bought in the local area 139 No. 1½ crossbred steers weighing 349 pounds at $121.15.

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Dimmitt Feed Yard, Dimmitt: 441 steers, 1000-1025 lbs., 70% choice, $71.50; 202 heifers, 900 lbs., 70% choice, $69.

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Buck and Jim Sumners, representing B&J Cattle Co., Dalhart, bought in the Texas Panhandle 240 No. 1-2 steers weighing 610 pounds at $85.

15 YEARS AGO

Roy McDaniel, Texico, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer 83 mixed breed steers weighing 567 pounds at $67.

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Fred L. Graff, Hondo, sold to Pat Siefert, Morales Feed Lots, Devine, 218 crossbred heifers off wheat weighing 541 pounds at $62.50.

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Supreme Feeders, Liberal, Kan.: 565 steers, 1075 lbs., 80% choice, $70; 191 heifers, 975 lbs., 80% choice, $68.

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Merrill-Merrill & Son, House, N.M., sold to a Dalhart buyer 308 mixed breed steers weighing 745 pounds at $69.50, also 287 heifer mates weighing 645 at $62.

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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos, bought out of the Southeast 98 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 509 pounds at $60 delivered.

10 YEARS AGO

Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in Texas 230 No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 675-700 pounds at $82.50.

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Stiles Cattle Co., Cuero, bought in the local area 131 No. 1 crossbred steers weighing 327 pounds at $121.25; 122 No. 1 crossbred steers weighing 394 at $115.25; 118 No. 1 crossbred heifers weighing 468 at $89.20; 98 No. 1 crossbred heifers weighing 526 at $88.25.

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Seven X Feedyard, Summerfield: 80 steers, 1150 lbs., 55% choice, $79; 80 steers, same weight and grade, $78.50.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 70 steers, 1070 lbs., 60% choice, $78.50; 88 heifers, 950 lbs., 60% choice, $78.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 230 heifers, 1000-1050 lbs., $78.25; 70 corriente steers, 1100-1150 lbs., $73.50.

5 YEARS AGO

About 30,000 pounds of 1993 adult mohair has sold in San Angelo at $1.25 grease f.o.b. the warehouse.
The American Wool and Mohair Assn. offered about 35,000 pounds of wool at sealed bid sale Tuesday. High bid was 41.375 cents f.o.b. member warehouses.

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Feeder lambs moving direct in West Texas were mostly $75 on newcrops. In Wyoming 109-pound oldcrops turned at $60 and in North Dakota lambs averaging 110 pounds also went at $60.

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H&H Feedlot, Roscoe: 194 crossbred heifers, 1025 lbs., $74; 47 crossbred steers, 1075 lbs., $74.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 262 steers, 1150 lbs., 50% choice, $76.