45 YEARS AGO

Jack Drake of San Angelo this week bought three loads of 85-pound shorn feeder lambs at Mid-West Feed Yards at $16.50 cwt.

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Leon Land & Cattle Company of Fort Stockton Wednesday marketed 366 crossbred spring lambs on the Fort Worth market at $28.50.

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Wayland Smith of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, has contracted 1000 mixed calves for fall delivery to Tom Blanton, also of Pawhuska, at $18 and $20 on heifers and steers, respectively.

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Gerald Farr of Fort Sumner and Buck Harvey of Encino, New Mexico, are reported to have sold around 300 choice quality short-age stocker yearlings this week at $22.50 for the heifers and $24.50 for the steers for delivery this week. The heifers and steers weighed 367 and 409, respectively.

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Dick Moseley of Rochelle this week sold 750 oldcrop clipped lambs weighing 96 pounds at $22.75 through Texas Livestock Marketing Association.

40 YEARS AGO

Lloyd Kenyon of Clovis sold, for LeBus Bros., Wichita Falls, Texas, 750 steer yearlings expected to weigh 750-850 pounds at $27.75 for Aug. 10 to Sept. 15 delivery to Illinois buyers. These cattle will be summered on LeBus Bros. ranch near Eagle Nest, N.M., and are to be delivered at the ranch with three percent shrink.

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Cecil Dellinger of Clayton, N.M. bought 400 heifer and steer yearlings from Raymond Weatherford of Dumas, Texas, for Aug. 1 delivery at $26.50 for the heifers, expected to weigh about 700 pounds, and $210 per head for the steers, expected to weigh near 800 pounds.

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Ike Wiggins of Wagon Mound, N.M., sold 90 heifer yearlings averaging 470 pounds at $33, delivered last week to a local buyer; also 110 heifer yearlings weighing 560 at $32, delivered last week of Colorado buyers.

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Gordon Stiles of Wheeler, Texas, is reported to have sold 200 mixed calves for fall delivery to a Nebraska buyer at $33.50 and $35.50 for heifers and steers, respectively.

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Guy McBurnett, Dalhart, bought 75 heifer yearlings at $28 and 250 steer yearlings at $30 for May 20 delivery in the Temple, Texas area; these are expected to weigh about 550 pounds.

35 YEARS AGO

Considerable inquiry and some trading was reported on yearlings in the Globe, Ariz., area. A Montana operator bought 800 steers weighing 400-475 pounds at $22.50 to $23 depending on weight and condition. Another buyer paid $22 for 300 head in the same weight range.

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Ike Wiggins, Wagon Mound, N.M., sold and delivered 130 choice Hereford heifer calves at $85 per head; he and R.H. Nicks, Springer, bought 35 steer calves weighing 425-450 in the Raton area at $20.

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Dayton Barkley, Gruver, representing Vann Cattle Co., Fort Worth, bought and received 208 choice Okie steers weighing 599 pounds at $17.50.

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A hastily gathered task force representing the U.S. cattle industry left on a two-week visit to Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands to try to increase those countries' purchases of American beef. They included Jay Taylor, Amarillo; Kenneth Anderson, Emporia, Kan.; John Guthrie, Porterville, Calif.; C.W. "Bill" McMillan, Denver, executive secretary of the American National Cattlemen's Assn.; Aled B. Davis, Chicago, vice president of the American Meat Institute; and Don Magdanz, Omaha, secretary of the National Livestock Feeders Assn.

30 YEARS AGO

Homer Hill & Sons, Hart and Dimmitt, sold 580 steers weighing 1250 pounds grading 80 percent choice at $33 out of their lots at Hart and Plainview; and 400 steers weighing 1200 grading 85 percent choice at $33.35.

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UX Cattle Co., Uvalde, sold 182 Hereford and black baldface steers at $32.35 to Capitol Cattle Co., Austin, payweight 623 pounds off oatfields and supplement; and 219 heifer mates at $29.10 to Robert Wheeless, San Angelo, expected to weigh 600.

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Billy McCasland, Clovis, bought in the Chama, N.M. area 600 No. 1 Okie steers expected to weigh 600-625 pounds at $29.50 and 100 native Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers expected to weigh 675 at $28.50 for Oct. 15 delivery.

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Jack Conrad, Dalhart, sold 105 Hereford steer yearlings weighing 575 at $33 to Bill Allen, Stratford, representing Mustang Cattle Co., Dalhart.

25 YEARS AGO

"Typewriter Cowboy" was the title given Elmer Kelton, associate editor of West Texas Livestock Weekly, in a recent feature article in the Dallas News. He has written a Western novel every year for 17 years as a sideline to his full time newspaper work. Two weeks ago he received the Western Heritage "Best Novel" Award at the National Cowboy Hall of fame for his latest book, "The Time It Never Rained."

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Bill Dodd, Melrose, N.M., sold to an Iowa buyer 75 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 550 pounds at $39.

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Earl Stewart, Melrose, sold to an out-of-state buyer 55 Okie steers weighing 598 pounds at $35.50 delivered.

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Cactus Feeders, Dumas: 85 heifers, 975 lbs., 75% choice, $40.50.

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Pecos Feed Yard, Pecos: 66 heifers, 720 lbs., good, $40.50.

20 YEARS AGO

Concho Livestock Co., San Angelo, sold 500 Rambouillet yearling ewes about 30 days out of the wool for $100 per head.

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National Livestock Commission Co., Oklahoma City, bought on the yards there 90 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 491 pounds at $98.60; 166 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 533 at $96.90; 200 Okie steers weighing 603 at $90.50; 69 choice heifers weighing 504 at $89.89.95; 499 Okie steers weighing 607 at $88.10; 49 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 618 at $79.25; 65 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 624 at $79.15.

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JB Cattle Co., Abilene, shipped on a delivered basis to a Wyoming buyer 186 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 528 pounds at $99.76; sold to Kansas buyers 96 steers weighing 565 at $90.37 and 63 feeder steers weighing 774 at $78.52, both delivered prices; sold to a West Texas feedlot 184 No. 1-2 feeder heifers weighing 562 at $80.76 f.o.b. Abilene.

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John Womack, Canyon: 225 steers, 1035 lbs., 75% choice, $77.25.

15 YEARS AGO

Cattle imports from Mexico into Texas last month totaled 11,580 head, reports the Texas Animal Health Commission. Cattle entering Texas from other states totaled 177,426, outshipments 148,888; sheep inshipments totaled 14,257, outshipments 6627.

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Rush Bros. and Tom MacKechnie, Brady, sold to a Fort Worth buyer 112 mixed breed steers weighing 732 pounds at $60.50.

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Stiles Cattle Co., Cuero, bought in the local area 105 good No. 1 crossbred steers and bulls weighing 452 pounds at $68.50; 52 Okie heifers weighing 275 at $58.50; 70 similar heifers weighing 405 at $55.10.

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Western-Lockney Ltd., Lockney: 289 steers, 1125 lbs., 60% choice, $67.

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Sugarland Feed Yards, Hereford: 55 sorted heifers, 950 lbs., $65.25; 112 heifers, 950 lbs., $65.

10 YEARS AGO

Stiles Cattle Co., Cuero, bought in the local area 100 No. 1 feeder heifers weighing 503 pounds at $81.05; 100 No. 1 crossbred replacement heifers weighing 600 at $78.

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A Virginia electronic auction sold 655 lambs, springers $78-82.25, shorn oldcrops $75-79.25.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 306 steers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $77; 87 steers, 1100 lbs., 55% choice, $76.50; 141 steers, 1100 lbs., 50% choice, $76.

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Bill Porter, Bowling Green, Ky., sold on a delivered basis one load of No. 1-plus exotic cross heifers weighing 250 pounds at $104 to Central Texas.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle 85 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 675 pounds at $72.50.

5 YEARS AGO

Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle 760 No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 725 pounds at $76; on the South Plains 350 No. 1 crossbred steers weighing 725 at $75.50.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 1347 steers, 1150 lbs., 60% choice, $70.

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H&H Feedlot, Roscoe: 460 heifers, 1000-1025 lbs., $69.

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Veribest Cattle Feeders, Veribest: 220 crossbred Mexican steers, 1050-1075 lbs., 40-45% choice, $69.

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Cattle Town Inc., Hereford: 742 steers, 1100-1125 lbs., 55% choice, $70; 396 heifers, 975-1000 lbs., 60% choice, $70.