45 YEARS AGO

Chapman Bros., Endee, N.M., are reported to have sold 196 steer yearlings at $19.50 and 207 heifer yearlings at $17 to Caskey & Foley, Amarillo, for Nov. 10 delivery.

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E.L. Barnett of Amarillo sold 280 steer yearlings weighing 640 pounds at $18.50 to Fred Winzeler of Lamont, Kan., Nov. 1 delivery.

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Otho Drake of San Angelo sold one load of 125-pound three and four year-old ewes to L.H. Hicks of Ozona at $12 each.

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Henry Cone of Canyon, Texas, bought four loads of steer yearlings weighing 647 pounds at $19 from Roy Byrd of Canyon, Nov. 5 delivery.

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Ray Barr of Amarillo bought two loads of Angus steer yearlings weighing 755 pounds at $19 from Kenneth LaFon of Amarillo; these were delivered Nov. 4 at Del Norte, Colo., and went to Iowa feeders.

40 YEARS AGO

Lee Carrell of Dalhart bought 100 Angus steer yearlings weighing 725 pounds at $22.50 from Lester Merrill of Nara Visa, N.M., for Nov. 16 delivery.

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Mid-West Feed Yards, San Angelo, bought this week for delivery early next week 800 wooled mutton lambs expected to weigh 70-72 pounds at $17 from Rube Ward of Sonora.

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H.B. Taylor Jr., Pampa, Texas, bought 40 mixed calves weighing 538 and 570 at $24 and $26 from Ora Ramsey, Canadian, and received them last week.

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Al Gallo of Dalhart sold 300 steer yearlings, mostly Herefords but with a few Angus on them, averaging about 750 pounds at $23.50 for delivery this week to California buyers.

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Jack Drake, San Angelo, bought and received this week 1300 clipped mutton lambs weighing 71 pounds at $16 from Bob Ballinger of Garden City.

35 YEARS AGO

Drouth in Northeastern New Mexico was given by a spokesman for State Land Commissioner E.S. Johnny Walker as the reason for reducing lease rates on six state land leases. Some leases were reduced from 60 to 45 cents per acre.

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Ted Harris, Clayton, N.M., sold 600 yearling steers weighing 625 pounds at $21 to N.C. Crites, Clayton. The 100,000 acre JE Ranch, where they had been pastured, was sold the previous year to the La Joya Land & Cattle Co., Clayton. It was originally put together in 1880 by Carl Ecklund, a maternal grandfather of the present day Wooten heirs. The brand was taken from the initials of his father, Joseph Eckland, and was among the first registered under the 1907 New Mexico brand law.

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Erramouspe Inc., Corona, N.M., sold 725 heifer and steer calves weighing 387 and 422 pounds respectively at $20 and $23, and 65 heifer and steer yearlings weighing 569 at $17 and $19, delivered to Bob Bauer, Burdett, Kan.

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The O Bar Ranch, Guymon, Okla., sold 250 good Hereford steers weighing about 600 pounds at $19.50 to a Texhoma buyer.

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Jerry Thomason, Pampa, sold 119 steers weighing about 500 at $102.50 per head to a local buyer.

30 YEARS AGO

Early frost and excessive rain shortened plains crop yields and delayed harvest to the point that gins and cotton oil mills were idle in many areas, and elevators were quoting milo at $2.20-2.25 cwt., a near record price at the time.

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Pitts, Buddy & Pitts, Dodge City, Kan. and Perryton, bought 500 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 575 pounds at $26.50 and 700 similar steers weighing 625 pounds at $29.50 from Laddie Cluck, Gruver.

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J.T. True sold off his ranches at Alanreed, Texas and San Jon, N.M., 400 Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 425 and 440 pounds at $30.25 and $34.25 to a Kansas buyer.

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Pratt Feedlot, Pratt, Kan., sold 308 steers weighing 1100 pounds, 85 percent choice, at $27.75 and 300 weighing 1110 pounds, 85 percent choice, at $27.50.

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Cecil Cornelius, Amarillo, bought 417 choice Hereford steer calves weighing 297 pounds at $45 cwt. in the Medicine Bow, Wyo. area.

25 YEARS AGO

It happened again in October; no cattle entered Texas from Mexico, according to Texas Animal Health Commission. A total of 126,751 cattle and 7539 sheep were shipped from Texas to other states during the month, TAHC reported.

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Confirmed screwworm cases in Texas totaled 570 during the week ending Nov. 1, and this brought the yearly total in the state to 6105.

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Arnold Moore, Childress, sold to a New Mexico buyer 125 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 735 pounds at $30 delivered.

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Joe Baker, Amarillo: 157 steers, 1100 lbs., 80% choice, $39.50 from the Frantz Feedyard, Hartley.

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Eddie Benton and Leon Swift, Amarillo, bought in the Pampa area 264 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 823 pounds at $32.75.

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Tommy Buckner, Dalhart, bought in northeastern New Mexico 170 Hereford heifers weighing 525 pounds at $25.

20 YEARS AGO

A storm came swiftly with great force, accompanied by rain, sleet and snow — driven by 60 to 90 mile an hour wind through the Texas Panhandle, northeastern New Mexico, western areas of Oklahoma and Kansas and southeastern Colorado. Thousands of cattle were killed.

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Gene Cox, Logan, N.M., sold to a Colorado buyer 1900 Hereford, Angus and black baldface heifers with a few steers, weighing 550 pounds at $406 per head straight across.

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Ty Jones, Canyon, bought off stalkfields in the Texas Panhandle 650 No. 1-1½ steers weighing 700 pounds at $79.75.

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Traylor Price, Pampa, sold to a Kansas buyer 276 mixed breed steers weighing 685 pounds at $75.

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Jerry Don Martin, Roswell, sold to a Texico, N.M. buyer about 100 aged cows weighing 900-1000 pounds at $$45.50, also 12 aged bulls weighing 1200-1300 at $60.

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Master Feeders II, Garden City, Kan.: 579 steers, 1080 lbs., 70% choice, $65.50; 1003 heifers,960 lbs., 75% choice, $63.50.

15 YEARS AGO

Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was an estimated 763 million pounds, unchanged from the previous week and four percent below the same week a year ago.

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The Texas Animal Health Commission reports only three head of cattle entered Texas from Mexico during October. Meanwhile, 305,858 head came in from other states while 189,263 were shipped out. Sheep inshipments totaled 13,601 head, outshipments 21,088.

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Keith and Georgia Alexander, who operate a ranch northwest of Austin, Texas, have purchased the 104 year-old historic Stephen W. Dorsey Mansion east of Maxwell, N.M. The Alexanders were one of two bidders for the mansion and about 40 acres of rangeland.

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Sixty Brangus bulls averaged $1512 in the Cawley Ranch sale at San Angelo. Top price was $2700 paid by J.W. Gissler, Artesia, N.M.

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Pat Boone, Elida, N.M., sold to an out of state buyer 160 Hereford and black baldface steer calves weighing 529 pounds at $67.80, also 400 No. 1 crossbred steers weighing 775 at $63.75 and 100 Hereford and black baldface heifers weighing 474 at $57.

10 YEARS AGO

The American Sheep Industry Association said retail lamb demand was reported fair to good, but the demand response was not getting back to the wholesale level. Since 1987, average retail prices have increased nearly four percent, but average wholesale prices have fallen 13 percent.

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The Midwest electronic lamb sale moved two loads of slaughter lambs out of Illinois and Iowa at $54 for shorn lambs, $52 wooled, with 20 cents cwt. slide for each pound over 120.

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Concho Livestock Co., San Angelo, sold 228 No. 1 crossbreds, 70 percent steers and 30 percent bulls, weighing 425 at $92.93 delivered to Hereford; two loads of No. 1 crossbred heifers weighing 484 at $80.80 delivered to the Roscoe area.

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PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 84 crossbred steers, 1100 lbs., 40% choice, $74; 271 Holstein steers, 1227 lbs., $69.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 178 steers, 1125 lbs., 65% choice, $75; 480 steers, 1125 lbs., 55% choice, $74.50; 77 heifers, 1000 lbs., 60% choice, $74.50.

5 YEARS AGO

Tejas Feeders Inc., Pampa: 2305 steers, 1100-1200 lbs., 50% choice, $70; 1485 heifers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $70.

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Flint Hills Feedyard, Emporia, Kan.: 700 heifers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $70.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 358 steers, 1125 lbs., 60% choice, $70.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle 300 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 825 pounds at $72.

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Luckey Custom Feedlot, Devine: 150 steers, 1075 lbs., $69.50.