EXHIBIT 99.16

                                                              FILED
                                                           APR 1, 2002
                                                          JUDY DEERFIELD
                                               County Clerk, Pecos County, Texas
                                                          /s/     Deputy

                            NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE

DATE:  April 1, 2002

DEED OF  TRUST/SECURITY  AGREEMENT/FINANCING  STATEMENT:

     DATE:  August 16, 2001

     GRANTOR/BORROWER:  Stockton  Feed  & Milling, Inc. and Ranchers Feed Yards,
Inc.

     GRANTOR'S/BORROWER'S  COUNTY:  Travis  County,  Texas

     BENEFICIARY/LENDER:  ELTON  HOLLAND,  JR.

     HOLDER  OF  THE  NOTE  AND  LIEN:  ELTON  HOLLAND,  JR.

     TRUSTEE  :  PAUL H. DIONNE

     RECORDED  IN:  Volume  312,  Page  455,  Deed  of  Trust  Records  of Pecos
County,  Texas.

PROPERTY  (INCLUDING  IMPROVEMENTS):

     (i)  the  real  property  described  on  EXHIBIT  A  attached  hereto  and
          incorporated  by  reference;

     (ii) all  improvements  situated  on  such real property inclusive of goods
          which  are  fixtures;

    (iii) all  equipment, office furniture, appliances, rolling stock, and other
          personal  property,  together.  with  all inventory accounts and notes
          receivable,  inclusive of any of such personal property acquired after
          the  date  of  posting  of  this  notice  of  trustee's  sale;

     (iv) all  proceeds  of  the  above.

     (all of which are referred to collectively herein as the "Property")

DATE  OF  SALE  OF PROPERTY (FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH), Earliest Time of Sale:
10:00 A.M.  on  May 7, 2002.

PLACE  OF  SALE  OF  PROPERTY (INCLUDING COUNTY): East Steps of the Pecos County
Courthouse,  in  Fort  Stockton,  Pecos  County,  Texas.

     Because  of  default  in  performance  of  the  obligations  of the deed of
trust/security  agreement/financing statement, and other related loan agreements
and  documents  I,  as  Trustee, will sell the property by public auction to the
highest  for cash at the place and date specified to satisfy the debt secured by
the  dead  of  trust/security  agreement/financing  statement.


                                       /s/ Paul H. Dionne
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                                       PAUL H. DIONNE, Trustee



THE  SURFACE  ESTATE  ONLY  OF  :

TRACT  ONE: All that part of Tract No. 3, in Survey 1, Block 165, James Campbell
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Survey,  Certificate  597,  Abstract  No. 5609, described by metes and bounds as
follows:

     BEGINNING  at  a  steel  rod,  set at the point where the West line of
     Tract  3,  Survey  1,  Block 165, James Campbell Survey, Pecos County,
     Texas,  crosses  the  South  ROW  line  of  the  P & S F Ry. Co.;

     THENCE  N  49  deg, 39' E. along the South ROW Line of the P & S F Ry.
     Co.,  818.7  feet  to  a  steel  rod  for the NE corner of this tract;

     THENCE  South,  along  the  West  line  of the Stewart Addition Tract,
     1194.0  feet  to  a  1/2"  IP  for  the  SE  corner  of  this  tract;

     THENCE  West 623.9 feet to a point on the West line of Tract 3, Survey
     1, Block 165, and from which point a 3/4" IP at the SW corner of Tract
     3  bears  S.  2425.5  feet;

     THENCE North, along the West line of Tract 3, Survey 1, Block 165, 664
     feet  to  the  place  of beginning and containing 13.31 acres of land,
     more  or  less.

          SAVE AND EXCEPT from said Tract One, that certain .560 acre tract
     of  land  conveyed  to Stockton Feed & Milling, Inc., Grantee, by deed
     dated  February  18,  1997 from Pecos County, Texas, more particularly
     described  by  metes  and  bounds  as,  Tract  Five,  below.

TRACT  TWO:  All  that  part  of  the tract commonly called the Stewart Addition
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Tract,  a  part  of  Survey 1, Block 165, James Campbell Survey, Certificate No.
597,  and  being  a  part of the 40 acre tract patented to Jennie R. Stewart and
designated  as State Abstract No. 7504, and a part of the 40 acre tract patented
to W. C. Jackson and designated as State Abstract No. 7617 and more particularly
described  by  metes  and  bounds  as  follows:

     BEGINNING  at  a  steel  rod,  set at the point where the East line of
     Survey  1,  Block  165,  James  Campbell  Survey, Pesos County, Texas,
     crosses the South ROW line of the P & S F Ry. Co., said point being on
     the  East  line  of  the  Stewart Addition Tract and being 1644.6 feet
     South  of  the  NE  corner of the said Stewart Addition Tract. Said NE
     corner  of  the  Stewart  Addition Tract being the NE corner of the 40
     acres  patented to Jennie R. Stewart, designated as state Abstract No.
     7504;

     THENCE South, along the East line of Survey 1, Block 165, and the East
     line  of  the Stewart Addition Tract, 1348.7 feet to a 1/2" IP for the
     upper  SE  corner  of  this  tract;

     THENCE  West  330  feet  to a 1/2" IP for an ELL corner of thin tract;

     THENCE  South  355  feet  to a 1/2" IP for the lower SE corner of this
     tract;

     THENCE  West  270  feet  to a 1/2" IP  on the West line of the Stewart
     Addition  Tract  for  the  SW  corner  of  this  tract;

     THENCE North along the west line of the Stewart Addition Tract and the
     East  line  of  Tract  3,  Survey 1, Block 165, James Campbell Survey,
     1194.0  feet  to  a steel rod in the South ROW line of the P & S F Ry.
     Co.  for  the  NW  corner  of  this  tract;

     THENCE  N  49  deg. 39' E. along the south ROW line of the P & S F Ry.
     Co.,  787.2  feet to the Place of Beginning and containing 17.27 acres
     of  land,  more  or  less.

                                   EXHIBIT "A"


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TRACT THREE: All of Blocks Ten (10), Eleven (11) and Twelve (12), in the STEWART
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ADDITION  to  the  City  of  Fort  Stockton,  Pecos  County,  Texas.

TRACT  FOUR:     All of said lands North of the Old Alpine Highway Right of Way,
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approximately  34.49  acre  tract  out  of  Tract  3, Survey 1, Block 165, James
Campbell  Survey;  described  by  metes  and  bounds  as  follows:

     BEGINNING at a concrete section, corner, which is the Northeast corner
     of Section 34, Block 27, University Lands, marking an inside corner of
     this  survey;

     THENCE  West  865.6  varas  to  a  1/2  inch  iron  pipe for the lower
     Northwest  corner;

     THENCE  North  0  degrees 15 minutes 30 seconds East, 39.4 varas to an
     iron  sucker  rod  for  the  Northwest  corner;

     THENCE  South 89 degrees, 44 minutes, 30 seconds East, 1089.1 varas to
     a  l/2  inch galvanized iron pipe marking the Northeast corner of this
     survey;

     THENCE South 627.7 varas to a point along the Right of Way line of the
     Old  Alpine  Highway  Marking  the  Southeast  corner  of this survey;

     THENCE  South  49  degrees, 41 minutes West, 293.4 varas to a 1/2 inch
     iron  pipe  marking  the  Southwest  corner  of  this  survey;

     THENCE  North  783.2  varas  to  the  place  of  Beginning.

     SAVE  AND  EXCEPT  from  said  Tract  Five a tract of land containing 0.251
acres, conveyed to Pecos County, Texas, for right of way purposes, and described
by  metes  and  bounds  as  follows:

     BEGINNING  at  Engr's  Sta. 60 / 95.6, this being a point on the South line
     of  a  160  acre  tract and the North line of Tract 3, Survey l, Block 165,
     James Campbell Grantee, Pecos County, Texas, and being 1749' East of the SW
     Corner  of  the  160 acre tract and 1749' East of the NW corner of Tract 3,
     Survey  1,  Block  165;

     THENCE  S 1 deg - 33' E to  Engr's Sta. 62 / 07.7, this being a point on an
     upper  South  line  of  Tract 3, survey 1, Block 165, and the North line of
     Section  34,  Block  27, State University Land, and being 653.6' West of an
     inside  corner  of  Tract 3, Survey 1, Block 165, and 653.6' West of the NE
     corner of Section 34, Block 27, State University Land, and being the end of
     this  ROW.

     The  above  described  strip  of  land  being 109.4' long and 100' wide and
     containing  0.251  acres.

TRACT FIVE:  A strip of land containing .42 acres of land, mere or less out of a
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2.79  acre  tract of land  conveyed by deed dated February 17, 1959 from Wallace
E.  Pratt  et all to John A. Kincaid, Jr. recorded in Volume 219, page 394, Deed
Records  of  Pecos  County,  Texas,  being the remainder of said 2.79 acre tract
after the conveyance of a 2.37 acre out of said tract to Apache Beef Processors,
Inc.  by  deed  recorded  in Volume 497, Page 308, Deed Records of Pecos County,
Texas.

                                   EXHIBIT "A"


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TRACT SIX:  A 0.560 acre tract of land out of Tract #3, Survey 1, James Campbell
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Survey,  Certificate  597,  Abstract No. 5609, Pecos County, Texas, described by
metes  and  bounds  as  follows:

     BEGINNING  at  a steel rod set at a point where the West line of Tract
     3,  Survey  1,  Block 165, James Campbell Survey, Pecos County, Texas,
     crosses the  South  ROW  line  of  the  P & S F Ry. Co.;

     THENCE North 49 deg.  39' East along the South ROW line of the P & S F
     Ry.  Co.,  200.0  feet to a steel rod for the Northeast corner of this
     tract;

     THENCE  South  139  deg.  30'  East  100  feet to a wood stake for the
     Southeast  corner  of  this  tract;

     THENCE  West  229 deg. 30' West 285' to a wood stake for the Southwest
     corner  of  this  tract;

     THENCE North along the West line of Tract 3, Survey 1, Block 165, 131'
     to  the  Place of Beginning, and containing .56 acres of land, more or
     less.

                                   EXHIBIT "A"


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