45 YEARS AGO

George Hibard of Roswell last week bought the Torreon Ranch Company lambs at Vaughn, numbering around 3300 head, for mid-October delivery at $17 cwt. These were bought for Frank Bond & Son, Albuquerque. Hibbard also bought around 5000 lambs last week in the Roswell area at $16 to $16.50.

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Buddy Hall of Water Valley sold one load of mixed calves at $17 and $20 to Giles Williams of Bovina, through Roy Harkey, San Angelo broker. Williams received the calves this week and shipped them to wheat pasture at Bovina.

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Claude Garrett of Sofia, New Mexico, is reported to have sold 330 Angus cows, three and four years old, to a Capulin, New Mexico buyer at $125 per head.

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Morris Freeman, Texhoma, Oklahoma, sold to J.C. Parker of Dalhart, Texas, 225 wet cows three to five years old at $125 per head, October delivery.

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Art Wagoner of Amarillo sold to Guy Flint, also of Amarillo, 191 fleshy heifer yearlings weighing 652 at $17.75; these were delivered September 10 off grass near Middle Water, Texas.

40 YEARS AGO

Dee and Jim Price have sold, off their ranch near Mt. Dora, N.M., 600 heifer yearlings expected to weigh 700-725 pounds at $25.90 for Oct. 1-5 delivery to Colorado feeders.

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Hub Corn, Roswell, bought last week from several Roswell area ranchers, 1200 ewes and lambs. Included were 350 replacement ewes at $10 per head. Price paid for the lambs was $12 per head, for the balance of the ewes $7.50 per head.

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Walter Smith of Wyoming, Ill., recently bought 200 steer yearlings expected to average 700 pounds at $26.40 in the Clayton, N.M. area for Sept. 23 delivery.

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Herby Eastman, Amarillo, sold 219 heifer calves estimated to weigh a little under 300 pounds at $90 per head for delivery this week to Dick Diehl, Stratford.

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Elvin Crow, Pecos, sold last week for immediate delivery 479 yearling and two year-old Corriedale ewes at $20 per head and 58 three and four year-old ewes at $17.50 per head to a Colorado buyer.

35 YEARS AGO

D.W. Lewter, Lubbock feedlot operator, filed an $11 million damage suit naming John Murchison and C.W. Murchison Jr., Dallas, doing business as Murchison Bros., as co-defendants. This was believed to be the largest civil suit ever submitted in Lubbock County.

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Potter Craig of Wagon Mound, N.M., shipped about 3900 yearling steers between Aug. 1 and Sept. 5 from Mora, San Miguel and Colfax counties in New Mexico to various destinations in Arizona. The cattle were not sold; the heavier end went to Spur Feeding Co., Phoenix, and the rest were put on pasture at various places in the Florence, Wickensburg and Seligman areas. The cattle weighed about 310 pounds the previous spring and gained from 125 to 170 pounds in 120 days.

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Gene Newman, San Angelo, bought on order the following cattle in the Marfa area: from Hayes Mitchell Cattle Co., 2000 calves and 200 yearlings for various deliveries up to Oct. 15; the calves were expected to weigh 425-450 pounds, the yearlings 600-650.

30 YEARS AGO

Walter Hage, Garita, N.M., sold 100 Hereford steer calves expected to weigh 445 at $34 for Oct. 11 delivery and 100 heifer and steer black baldface calves at $120 each.

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Corralitos Ranch, Las Cruces, N.M., sold about 600 reputation Brangus heifer and steer calves expected to weigh near 450 pounds at $34 and $37.

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Southwest Livestock Trading Co., Uvalde and Del Rio, bought about 1000 Hereford calves from the Diamond Ring Ranch, Casper, Wyo., expected to weigh 250-275 pounds at $37 and $40 for mid-Oct. delivery.

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G.H. and Darwin Brewster, Dalhart, sold 375 Hereford, Angus and black baldface heifers weighing 750 pounds for $27.50.

25 YEARS AGO

Mack Hale, Tulia, bought out of Georgia and received 88 Okie steers weighing 487 pounds at $28.53.

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Monier & Co., Worland, Wyo., bought 180 choice and prime steer yearlings at Lewistown, Mont. weighing 800 pounds at $29 for an Illinois order.

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Summerour Bros., Dalhart, bought out of Florida 139 No. 1 Okie steers with an end of 2s weighing 348 pounds at $28.80 delivered.

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Master Feeders II, Garden City, Kan.: 220 heifers, 1025 lbs., 95% choice, $39.85.

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Sooner Beef Producers, Guymon, Okla.: 300 steers, 1100 lbs., 75% choice, $40.

20 YEARS AGO

Roy T. Fort, Caprock, N.M., sold to a Colorado feeder 400 Hereford, black baldface and crossbred heifers and steers to weigh 700 and 800 pounds at 470 and $75 for Oct. 20 delivery.

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Joe Baker, Amarillo, bought in South Texas 40 feeder bulls just under two years, weighing 990 pounds at $63.25.

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Sugarland Feed Yards, Hereford: 84 heifers, 925 lbs., $69.

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Carson County Feedyards, Panhandle: 53 heifers, 1000 lbs., 70-75% choice, $67.50.

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Master Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 687 steers, 1100-1150 lbs., 65-70% choice, $70.50.

15 YEARS AGO

Ray Holtzclaw, Bakersfield, Calif., bought in Northern California for October delivery 1000 good mixed breed steers weighing 800 pounds at $62.

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Richard Kimball, Virgil, Kan., and Morris Barnes, Parsons, Kan., sold to Ed Kimbell of the Kimball Ranch, Virgil, 200 No. 1 steers expected to weigh 750 pounds at $63 for delivery July 15, 1985.

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Sugarland Feed Yards, Hereford: 237 heifers, 950 lbs., $62.50.

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Swisher County Cattle Co., Tulia: 525 steers, 1075 lbs., 70% choice, $63.75.

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Hughes Land & Livestock, Scott City, Kan.: 229 steers, 1125 lbs., 60% choice, $63.50.

10 YEARS AGO

JM Cattle Co., Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to Texas buyers one load of No. 1 Okie steer calves weighing 373 pounds at $112.89, also three loads of No. 1 and a few No. 1½ crossbred heifers weighing 447 at $85.10.

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PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 63 steers, 1200 lbs., 40% choice, $68.25.

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Coronado Feeders, Dalhart: 3174 steers, 1125 lbs., 70% choice, $69; 473 heifers, 1075 lbs., 70% choice, $69.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 323 heifers, 1000-1050 lbs., $68.

5 YEARS AGO

Fleshy slaughter ewes in Texas sold from $33 to $44, a few to $46. In the Midwest markets comparable ewes were $24-33, a few to $37.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 117 steers, 1200 lbs., 55% choice, $67.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 282 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $68; 107 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $67.

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Veribest Cattle Feeders, Veribest: 126 steers, 1100-1200 lbs., 45-50% choice, $66; 46 heifers, 1025 lbs., 45-50% choice, $66; 315 heifers, 950-1100 lbs., 30-35% choice, $65.