45 YEARS AGO

Jud McKnight of Roswell is reported to have sold his lambs, around 3500 to 4000 head, to Max Riley of Roswell for delivery right away at $16.75 cwt.

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Dan Kinsel and Dan Kinsel, Jr., Cotulla, Texas, have bought 2800 mutton lambs from Pat and Abb Rose of Del Rio at $15.50 cwt., to be delivered in Del Rio by October 15 with three percent shrink.

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Charles Silver, Morton, sold 250 mixed calves, expected to weigh 400 pounds on delivery November 1, to Hold Holloway, Lubbock, at $19 and $20 on heifers and steers.

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Henry A. Bledsoe of Wray, Colorado, recently sold 450 choice quality mixed Hereford calves averaging 440 pounds at $20.50 for heifers and $24 for steers to Lowell Sarnes of Lexington, Nebraska.

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Ben Louder, Canyon, this week bought and received one load of steer yearlings weighing 905 pounds from a Mr. Gray of Texline at $19.50 cwt.

40 YEARS AGO

Dick Jackson of Guymon, Okla., sold 300 steer yearlings expected to weigh under 700 pounds at $25.90 for late October delivery to Kansas buyers; also 140 heifer yearlings expected to weigh about 650 at $24 for Nov. 1 delivery to an out-of-state buyer.

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Bert Northcutt of Canyon sold 100 heifer yearlings estimated to weigh about 700 pounds at $24.50 for delivery this week to Ralph Collinson, Amarillo. He also sold, to Bill Allen of Wheeless, Okla., 35 heifer calves weighing 404 at $30 delivered last week.

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Sam Kotara, Groom, Texas, bought 170 mixed calves in the Quitaque and Silverton areas at $28 and $30 for heifers and steers respectively for current delivery; these calves are estimated to weigh 425 pounds but the contract calls for payment of $25 and $27 for any calves weighing over 450 pounds.

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Charles Waller, Roswell, N.M., bought this week for delivery next week 2800 mixed ewe and mutton crossbred whiteface lambs at $17.50, ewes to be weighed separately. Included were 2000 from Fred Corn & Sons, Roswell, and 800 from Richard Corn & Son, Roswell.

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John Beasley of Clayton, N.M., is reported to have sold 100 steer yearlings weighing around 650 pounds at $26.50 for current delivery to out-of-state buyers.

35 YEARS AGO

Blan and Ned Burson, Channing, sold 700 mixed calves at $22 and $24 to a local buyer; first delivery averaged 400 pounds, and the second was expected to be a little lighter, around 375.

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Dayton Barkey, Gruver, representing Vann Cattle Co., Fort Worth, bought 350 choice Okie steers weighing 722 pounds at $19.50 in the Panhandle area.

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Friona Feed Yards sold 245 mostly choice steers weighing 975 pounds at $23.25 to Texas Meat Packers, Dallas.

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Jess Haney, Hominy, Okla., bought 100 heifer yearlings expected to weigh 550 pounds at $18.50 in the Las Vegas, N.M. area; and 147 heifer yearlings weighing 560 at $18.50 in the Coldwater, Kan. area.

30 YEARS AGO

Chester Fires and his son A.J. of Wellington, Texas, delivered their 761 pound steers off summer pasture on Johnson's Mesa, east of Raton, N.M., to Wheatheart Feeders, Perryton, Texas; the cattle gained 260-276 pounds at a cost of 9½ cents a pound.

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John Drayton, Wood Lake, Neb., sold at auction on his ranch 2200 steers ranging in weight from 625 to 875 pounds at mostly $30 for cattle weighing over 700 and up to $32 for the light end; all the cattle went to Iowa and Illinois buyers.

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Roy Thompson, Las Vegas, N.M., and A.G. Graham, Plainview, sold off the ranch at Mosquero, N.M., 2000 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 650-675 pounds at $29 to Colorado feeders. Thompson sold off the ranch at Mora, N.M., 300 Holstein steers weighing 950 pounds at $23.

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Mrs. Dora Lewis Sanders, Roswell, N.M., sold from the Summerfield, Kan., area 198 Angus and black baldface steers weighing 700 pounds at $29.80 to Swift & Henry, St. Joseph, Mo.; also 200 similar heifers weighing 400-425 pounds at $31 to a Missouri buyer; she sold off the ranch at Fort Sumner, N.M. 200 heifer and 325 steer calves weighing about 400 pounds at $31 and $35 to a New Mexico buyer.

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Sheep Feeders Inc., Hereford, sold 1500 fed lambs in No. 1 pelts weighing 98 pounds at $28 f.o.b. the yard to Armour & Co., San Angelo.

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Bryan & Silberberg, Dalhart, sold 240 Hereford cows, mixed ages, at $240 per head to Borden Riley, Tascosa.

25 YEARS AGO

Texas sheep and lambs on feed Oct. 1 totaled 108,000 head, up three percent from the Sept. 1 figure and one percent from Oct. 1 of last year, the Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service reported.

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Pinnell Cattle Co., Glenrio, N.M., sold to a Hereford, Texas feeder 1500 No. 1 Okie steers weighing about 700 pounds at $29.50.

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Bond-Baker Livestock, Roswell, bought about 24,000 lambs in eastern New Mexico at $28-31, mostly about $30.

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Monier & Co., Worland, Wyo., bought 1800 mostly wether feeder lambs weighing 80 pounds at $30 from Siebert Myse, Ingomar, Mont.

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Ducky Gallo, Dalhart, bought in that area 500 No. 1 Okie steers weighing about 600 pounds at $30.50.

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Leroy and Charles Radcliff, Elida, N.M., sold to a Hereford, Texas buyer 165 Okie steers weighing 664 pounds at $28.

20 YEARS AGO

Ranchman's Wool & Mohair, Ingram, and Priour-Varga Wool & Mohair, Rocksprings, jointly sold an estimated 160,000 pounds of adult mohair in the $4.05 range.

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Cross Land & Cattle Co., Dalhart, bought in the Eagle Nest, N.M. area 1600 No. 1 steers weighing about 700 pounds at $78.50.

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Bill Thompson, Tatum, N.M., sold to a New Mexico buyer 150 crossbred heifers and steers weighing 450 pounds straight across at $90 and $100, also 88 crossbred heifers and steers weighing 550 and 610 at $82.50 and $89.50 delivered.

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Faye Berkshire, Estancia, N.M., sold to a local buyer 73 Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 455 and 540 pounds at $97 and $106.

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Guy Flint, Amarillo, bought in Northeastern New Mexico 900 No. 1 and better steers weighing 700 pounds at $78.50.

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Mansfield Cattle Co., Vega, sold 350 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing about 500 pounds at $98.

15 YEARS AGO

Midwestern terminals were mostly steady, shorn lambs widely $63-66, wooled $61-64, Sioux Falls to a top of $68.80 shorn and $68.30 wooled.

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Babbitt Ranches, Flagstaff, Ariz., sold to an out of state buyer 1935 Hereford and Shorthorn steers weighing about 750 pounds at $60.50.

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Tom Green, Vega, sold to a local buyer about 160 mostly Hereford and some mixed breed steers weighing 560 pounds at $60 and $64, also 80 similar heifers weighing 500 at $55.

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Godwin & Nix, Athens-Malakoff, sold to a Western Oklahoma buyer 114 No. 1 Okie and crossbred steer calves weighing 421 pounds at $69.71 delivered.

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Supreme Feeders, Liberal, Kan.: 1051 heifers, 1000 lbs., 80% choice, $61.

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James Gibson, Elida, N.M., sold to a Clovis buyer 80 mixed breed heifers and steers, the heifers weighing 700 pounds at $53 and the steers weighing 750-850 at $60 and $62 depending on weight.

10 YEARS AGO

Isa Cattle Co.'s Benchmark Beefmaster sale at San Angelo averaged $1747 per head on 381 bulls in what was billed as the largest bull sale in the history of the breed.

Average was $1838 on 309 head of 18-months to two year-old bulls and $1358 on 72 yearling bulls. There were 81 buyers from nine states and Mexico. James Howell, San Angelo, bought the highest selling bull, consigned by L.G. Hargis Jr., Waurika, Okla., for $8000.

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The Midwestern electronic lamb auction sold one load of slaughter lambs from Iowa at $60.25. It sold a load in Illinois for $61.

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Bill Ragland, Brenham, bought in the local area 305 No. 1½ crossbred heifers weighing 450 pounds at $78.57, 165 similar heifers weighing 519 at $77.13; 140 No. 2 crossbred heifers weighing 442 at $76.77, and 147 plain crossbred heifers weighing 429 at $73.37.

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Cattle Town Inc., Hereford: 473 steers, 1100-1125 lbs., 70-75% choice, $71.

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Bar G Feedyard, Summerfield: 2211 heifers, 1000 lbs., 70% choice, $71; 260 steers, 1100 lbs., 70% choice, $71.

5 YEARS AGO

Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in New Mexico 455 No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 825-850 pounds at $67.

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Hereford Feedyards Inc., Hereford: 679 steers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice, $65.

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Dimmitt Feedyard, Dimmitt: 185 steers, 1200 lbs., 65% choice, $65.

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Fleshy slaughter ewes in San Angelo brought $30-41.50, a few $42.50. In the Midwest comparable ewes were $23-33.

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Randall County Feedyard, Canyon: 1200 steers, 1225 lbs., 50% choice, $65.