45 YEARS AGO

Billy Cline of Amarillo is reported to have sold 274 feeder steer yearlings weighing 752 pounds at $20 to Frink & Flint of Amarillo, Oct. 25 delivery.

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Jim and Bob Mecaskey of Panhandle, Texas, sold 275 steer yearlings to Bob Andis of Pampa at $19; these weighed 775 pounds and were delivered Oct. 12. They went to Monfort Feed Yards at Greeley, Colo.

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Medium to good feeder lambs were steady at $15 to $15.50 Tuesday at the special feeder lamb sale at Producers Livestock Auction Company. Around 1500 head sold, mostly to local pasture operators.

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Jay Taylor of Amarillo sold 200 steer yearlings averaging 780 pounds at $19 to Allen Dawson of Amarillo, delivered Oct. 20. These were shipped to Illinois feeders. Taylor is receiving around 1200 calves this month which he contracted at $18 and $20 for heifers and steers, respectively.

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O.G. Hill & Son, Hereford, sold 100 cows Oct. 20 to Speck Lester of Cheyenne, Okla., at $125 each; on Oct. 1 they sold 150 cows to a buyer at Lordsburg, N.M. at $125 each.

40 YEARS AGO

Ken Gale, San Antonio, buying for Swift & Co., bought and received in San Angelo this week a load of fat wooled lambs weighing 92 pounds at $18. He also shipped a load of 95 pound yearling muttons at $14.

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T.M. Jones of Redrock, Okla., sold 400 good and choice mixed calves estimated to weigh about 450 pounds at $110 per head for Oct. 29 delivery to a buyer at Leoti Kan.

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Jack Funderburg of Amarillo sold 1000 choice steer yearlings weighing 740 pounds and delivered them last week to a buyer there at $27.50; a third of these were Angus and the rest Herefords.

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Operators of New Mexico Livestock Inc., Artesia, bought and received this week between 800 and 900 mixed mutton and ewe whiteface lambs weighing 78 pounds at $17-17.50 from a Lovington rancher.

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P.H. Herndon of Clovis sold 70 mixed calves weighing 375 pounds at $30 straight to M.C. McKinney, Fort Worth, for delivery this week.

35 YEARS AGO

W.D. Price & Son and Vestal Lee Smith, all of Pampa, sold 600 steer yearlings weighing 750 pounds at $20.25 off grass near Strong City, Kan. to a Salina, Kan., buyer. They sold from their ranches at Higgins and Pampa 600 heifers weighing about 700 at $18.50.

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Janss Cattle Industries, Roswell, sold 540 good and choice fed steers weighing 1075 pounds at $23 to a Texas packer.

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Malcom Keyser, Dumas, sold 265 heifers weighing 403 pounds at $22 and 557 steers weighing 437 at $24.50 to M.H. Brown, Dumas.

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Spring Creek Cattle Co., Romero, sold 861 improved Mexican steers weighing 784 pounds at $18 to Noonan Bros., Sioux City, Iowa; and 100 good quality native Hereford heifers weighing 638 at $19 to N.C. Crites, Clayton, N.M.

30 YEARS AGO

Cecil McCoury, Lampasas, bought about 8000 partly mixed whiteface lambs in the Sonora-Eldorado area at $27-28 for muttons, $30 for ewe lambs including 2340 from Mrs. Jimmie Rieck, Roosevelt, 1450 from Hudspeth Hospital Ranch, Sonora, 2300 from Fred T. Earwood Estate, Sonora, 502 from Collier Shurley, Sonora, and 1375 from Mrs. P.K. McIntosh, Eldorado.

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Lawrence A. Krier & Sons, Ashland, Kan., sold and delivered 1400 heifer and steer calves averaging 446 and 462 at $31.50 and $34.50 to Melvin Olsen of Plainville, Kan. It was the sixth year Olsen had bought these calves, regularly sold through Raymond Broadle of Ashland Sale Co.

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Herbert Price, Santa Rosa, N.M., bought on order 150 Hereford and Angus heifer and steer calves weighing a little under 400 pounds at $32 and $36 in the Jal, N.M. area.

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Erby Wilmeth, Clovis, N.M., sold 100 native steer yearlings near Corona, N.M., weighing 600 pounds at $30 to Don Payne, Artesia, N.M.

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A.W. Burrell, Shamrock, sold 400 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 500-550 pounds at $31.

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Dwight Gober and Mrs. Faye Ainsworth, Bledsoe, sold 250 Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 400 pounds at $31 and $35 to Cliff Key, Tatum, N.M.

25 YEARS AGO

New Mexico's Gov. Bruce King, a rancher and livestock feeder himself, says he is encouraging New Mexico consumers to try to beat inflation by buying beef live at feeder auctions and having it slaughtered and frozen for their home freezers.

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Jack Drake, San Angelo, bought for Concho Livestock Co. about 3000 mixed mostly blackface feeder lambs at $32 from the Schneemann family, Big Lake.

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Pat Boone IV and Betty Qualis, Portales, N.M., sold 41 Hereford and black baldface heifers weighing 641 pounds at $25 and 24 similar steers weighing 673 at $30 to an out of state buyer.

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Dale Clark, Amarillo, sold to a local buyer 413 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing about 760 pounds at $32.25.

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Phil Harris, Arlington, N.M., sold to a Dalhart buyer and delivered 350 choice Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 350 and 379 pounds at $25 and $30.

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Pablo Lopez, Tucumcari, N.M., bought in the Las Vegas area 70 choice Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 400 and 450 pounds at $30 and $36.

20 YEARS AGO

Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was an estimated 731 million pounds, three percent below the previous week and two percent above the same week a year ago.

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Jerry Don Martin, Roswell, sold to an Iowa buyer 390 Hereford and black baldface heifer and steer yearlings weighing 668 and 710 pounds at $75 and $80.

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Charlie Martin, Roswell, sold to a Texas buyer about 300 Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 430 and 460-475 pounds at $85 and $95.

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Elton Green, Clovis, bought in Alabama 130 No. 1 heifer and steer calves weighing 350 pounds at $92 delivered.

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Fred Jewell, Elida, sold to an Iowa buyer one load of mixed breed steer yearlings weighing 750 pounds at $77.

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Orville Malmstrom, Pie Town, N.M., sold to a New Mexico buyer 500 Hereford, Angus and a few black baldface heifer yearlings weighing a little over 600 pounds at $75.

15 YEARS AGO

Cattle and calves on feed Oct. 1 in the 13 leading feeding states totaled nine million head, six percent more than last year and two percent above the same date in 1982.

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B.F. Good, Caprock, N.M., sold to a Texas Panhandle buyer 500 Okie steer yearlings weighing 725 pounds at $64.

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Roy T. Fort, Caprock, N.M., sold to a Texas Panhandle buyer 575 mixed breed steers weighing about 775 pounds at $62.

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Klemme Cattle co., Springfield, Mo., sold on a delivered basis to Kansas buyers two loads of No. 1 Okie steers weighing 406 pounds at $68.99, also one load of No. 1 Okie steer yearlings weighing 556 at $61.98 and two loads of No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 440 at $55.81.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in Northeastern New Mexico two loads of native No. 1 steer calves weighing 500-525 pounds at $65, also one load of similar steer yearlings weighing 575 at $64.

10 YEARS AGO

Sonora Wool and Mohair Co. sold about 80,000 pounds of No. 1 kid mohair at $5.859 to $5.9525 per grease pound.

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Vann-Roach Cattle Co., Fort Worth, bought in the Texas Panhandle 400 No. 1-2 Okie and crossbred heifers weighing about 700 pounds at $78; also 925 No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 775-900 at $81.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in New Mexico 500 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 650 pounds at $85, also 150 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 700 at $83.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 846 steers, 1100 lbs., 65% choice, $75; 386 steers, 1150 lbs., 60% choice, $74.50.

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Stiles Cattle Co., Cuero, bought in the local area 113 No. 1 crossbred steers weighing 435 pounds at $93.70; 94 similar steers weighing 486 at $89.10; 114 No. 1 crossbred heifers weighing 432 at $81.75; 106 similar to slightly better quality heifers weighing 455 at $81.50.

5 YEARS AGO

Si Watkins, Marlin, sold out of the Benjamin area to a Big Spring buyer 144 first-calf Brangus pairs with calves weighing 250-300 pounds at $880 per pair.

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Cal-Tex Feed Yard, Trent: 415 heifers, 1060 lbs., $70; 300 steers, 1175 lbs., $70.

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Luckey Custom Feedlot, Devine: 90 steers, 1075-1100 lbs., $70.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 533 heifers, 1050 lbs., $68.

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Miller Feed Yard, Satanta, Kan.: 757 steers, 1250 lbs., $69.

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