45 YEARS AGO

Cargile & Son of San Angelo have sold 1500 Rambouillet yearling ewes at $16 per head to Bill Van Huss, Albuquerque, N.M.

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Sam Arnett of Lubbock, Texas sold 700 mixed calves weighing a little under 400 pounds off his Clabber Hill Ranch near Tucumcari, N.M., to Charlie Ford of Amarillo at $18 and $20, delivered Nov.1.

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Mims & Knott Cattle Co. of Albuquerque sold 63 yearling steers averaging 593 pounds at $21, delivered Oct. 25.

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Roger McConnell of Pampa sold 130 steer calves at $20.50 and 60 heifer calves at $16.40, late October delivery, though Winter Livestock Commission Co., LaJunta, Colorado.

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J.W. Arledge Jr., Robert Lee, sold 900 longtail lambs to a Lometa buyer this week at $16.

40 YEARS AGO

Ben Dechert, Junction, bought and received this week 2000 feeder mutton lambs weighing around 70 pounds at $16 for clipped lambs, $17.50 for wooled lambs. The lambs were bought in the Junction area and will be placed on fields and pastures in that area.

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Commie Hudson of San Angelo sold to Merle Proctor, Wingate, 800 fall shorn whiteface mutton lambs weighing 66 pounds at $16.50.

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Charles Best of Tucumcari, N.M. sold one load of cows weighing about 1000 pounds at $16 cwt. to the 66 Packing Co., Tucumcari, for delivery this week.

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Dick Silberberg, Dalhart, bought on order for Dick Montgomery of Vega, Texas, 90 choice Shorthorn heifer calves weighing about 400 at $33 from Steve Treadway of Clayton, N.M., and the Brown Ranch at Branson, Colo.

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Bill Goode of Seymour, Texas, bought one load of steer calves weighing 473 pounds at $30 and 53 mixed calves weighing 425 at $28.25 and $30.50, delivered this week in Amarillo, from Joe Powell of Fort Sumner, N.M.

35 YEARS AGO

Buddy Major, Magdalena, N.M., sold 400 choice Angus steer calves weighing 400 pounds at $22.50 to an Illinois buyer. One load of these cattle, topped out for the Clovis Cattle Festival, brought the sale's top price at $27.75.

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Cleve Jones, Sonora, sold 700 Hereford and Angus calves averaging 375 pounds at $19 and $22.50 to a West Texas buyer.

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Vince Lee and O.M. Lee Estate, Magdalena, N.M., sold 800 heifer yearlings weighing about 625 pounds at $17.75 to a Denver buyer.

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Fred Daugherty, Clovis, sold 100 heifer and steer calves weighing 402 pounds at $21 and $23 to Owen Seamands, Hereford. Daugherty & Felton sold off their ranch at Kenna, N.M., 80 mixed calves weighing 340 pounds at $21.50 and $23.50 to W.H. Wall, Texico.

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The entire herd of registered and commercial Herefords from the TO Ranch, east of Raton, N.M., were bought and shipped by the Little Horn Land & Livestock Co., Wyola, Mont. The Santa Fe railroad used more than 100 cars in two special trains to move the cattle to their new home.

30 YEARS AGO

Simpson Bros., Robert Lee, sold 1200 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers, they summered at Prairie City, S. D., weighing 791 at $30, and 55 No. 1-2 Okie steers weighing 797 at $29; about half were Texas cattle shipped there in May weighing 501, the rest native cattle bought there at the same time weighing 451.

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Fifty-eight bulls averaged $990 per head in the Jack V. Williams performance tested Hereford sale in San Angelo. The first 10 bulls averaged $1875, the first 20 head $1473.

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Arizona-Colorado Land & Cattle Co., Phoenix, expanded its operations through the acquisition of a three year lease-option on the Cone Bros. Ranch at Plant City, Fla. Total purchase price to be paid by the company on exercise of its option was in excess of $4 million. This would include 12,600 acres of deeded land and more than 4000 head of cattle.

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Veribest Cattle Feeders, San Angelo, sold 300 steers weighing 1075 pounds, 70-80 percent choice, at $27.25.

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Boots Harlan, Clayton, N.M., bought 62 Hereford cow and calf pairs, cows 3-6 years old weighing 950 pounds, calves 380 pounds, at $300 per pair, and 10 dry cows at $180 per head, all near Raton, N.M.; 175 Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 400 pounds at $125 straight across in the Grants, N.M. area.

25 YEARS AGO

Potter Craig, Clovis, N.M., bought in the Kenna, N.M. area 550 choice native Hereford heifers weighing 650 pounds at $27.50.

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The 13 month loss period in cattle feeding has been the longest in the industry's history, said Glenn Deen, Dumas, president of the Texas Cattle Feeders Assn. at that group's annual convention at Amarillo. He said several hard lessons have come out of the experience.

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Kinney County Wool & Mohair, Brackettville, sold about 250,000 pounds of wool, fall ewe wool 50-56 cents, one choice lot to 60, bulk 53-56; and fall lamb wool 40-48 cents.

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Harold Gatens, Amarillo, bought and received 440 good Okie steers weighing 600 pounds at $29 from Dick Gregory, Grady, N.M.

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A.I.D. Feedyard, Ulysses, Kan.: 183 heifers, 925-950 lbs., 80% choice, $39.

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Mesa Ranch, Elida, N.M., sold to an out of state buyer 100 Hereford heifers and steers weighing 500 and 550 pounds at $27.50 and $32.

20 YEARS AGO

B. Raymond Evans, Tulia, bought in the Amarillo area 145 mostly Hereford steers weighing 345 pounds at $104; in Central Texas 210 crossbred steers weighing 425 at $84 delivered.

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Fred Vanderburg Sr., Pampa, sold to an Oklahoma buyer 370 No. 1 steers weighing 700-735 pounds at $76.

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Hughes Land & Livestock, Scott City, Kan.: 222 steers, 1050 lbs., 80% choice, $64.75; 214 steers, 1125 lbs., 60-65% choice, $64.

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Bueno Vista Ranch, Bueno Vista, N.M., sold to a Clayton, N.M. buyer 300 Limousin-Hereford cross steers weighing 400 pounds at $105.

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National Livestock Commission Co., Oklahoma City, bought on the yards there 74 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 376 pounds at $92.55; 47 choice steer calves weighing 437 at $91.50; 92 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 555 at $83.50; 84 similar steers weighing 466 at $81.35; 111 No. 1 heifers weighing 423 at $78.35.

15 YEARS AGO

Dennis Luce, Roy, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer 300 No. 1 crossbred steers weighing 760 pounds at $64.

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Lymon Graham, Caprock, N.M., sold to an Oklahoma buyer 65 mixed breed steers weighing 750 pounds at $63.

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Fall mohair hit a new high in a sealed bid offering at Producers Wool and Mohair Co. The firm sold 100 percent of its mohair accumulation. About 380,000 pounds of fall adult hair sold for $3.859 per pound, about 55,000 pounds of yearling $4.519 and about 40,000 pounds of kid $5.561.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 360 steers, 1125 lbs., 70% choice, $62.50; 381 heifers, 975 lbs., 70% choice, $61.

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Recent rains have been a boost to most winter pastures in East Texas, and most areas have small grains, ryegrass and clovers growing well, says Dr. Sim A. Reeves Jr., Extension agronomist at Overton, Texas.

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Supreme Feeders, Liberal, Kan.: 600 steers, 1150 lbs., 75% choice, $63.50; 330 steers, 1150 lbs., 75% choice, $63.

10 YEARS AGO

Moorhouse-Eastern Livestock Co., Iowa Park, bought in the Paducah area 400 Brangus and Brangus baldy steers weighing 625 pounds at $86.50; also 125 heifer mates weighing 575 at $81.50.

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Concho Livestock Co., San Angelo, sold 350 heifers weighing 650 pounds to Clif Reed, Robert Lee, at $78 delivered to an Abilene feedlot.

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Deb Crockett, Crockett Cattle Connection, Bowie, sold on a delivered basis to Texas Panhandle buyers 149 No. 1 crossbred and exotic steers weighing 374 pounds at $106.85, also 117 quarter to half cross steers weighing 418 at $93, plus 129 similar steers weighing 421 at $92.09, and a load of plain No. 1½-2 heifers weighing 446 at $76.37.

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3K Cattle Feeders, Hereford: 117 heifers, 1000 lbs., 65% choice, $74.50.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 601 steers, 1200 lbs., 55-60% choice, $74.50.

5 YEARS AGO

XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 239 heifers, 1000 lbs., $70; 596 steers, 1150 lbs., $70.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 346 steers, 1175 lbs., 50% choice, $70; 142 heifers, 1050 lbs., 50% choice, $70.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought for May delivery in New Mexico 450 No. 1 Okie and exotic steers to weigh 775 at a price to be determined by the futures board.

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PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 250 heifers, 1100 lbs., 50% choice, $69.50.

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Hitch Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 361 steers, 1175 lbs., 50% choice, $69.50; 268 heifers, 1100 lbs., 50% choice, $69.50.