Sooner State

One of the huge front-end loaders employed at the Richards Spur quarry. Ledger photo by Mike W. Ray

One of the huge front-end loaders employed at the Richards Spur quarry. Ledger photo by Mike W. Ray

Dolese’s history in the Sooner State

The patriarch of the Dolese family was in the mining industry in the 1880s. His four sons found- ed Dolese Bros. Co. and traveled westward with the nation’s expansion.