He went acquiring the nears earths to their already great country property until have 20.000 hectares of earth between Tolú and Coveñas, with grass of great wealth, thousand of coconut tree and possibilities without limit. Additionaly he went acquiring caws and horses until possess 40.000 cattle and hundreds horses. As a result of their continuous journeys to Panamá, he made contact with North American managers, in particular with some that they had had experience in the installation of refrigerating plants in Paraguay and Argentina, was managers of The International Products Co., and, in union with them and with cattlemen of the departments of Bolívar (that they included the one which today is Sucre and Córdoba), they conformed the Colombia Products Co., whose object was the construction of a great factory in Coveñas for the export of meat of earning in can. So are begun and direct the history of one of the biggest and visionary companies of commencements of the XX century in Colombia, that drove to the disposition of great quantity of economical resources, humans and technicians in order to install in Coveñas, between 1919 and 1923, the gigantic refrigerating complex named then Packing House, whose principal headquarters, the immense brick red building with frames of Canadian red pine, elevators of 4 meter of side, basements, stairways in snail, glasses of security and refrigerator isolated with float of 20 centimeters of thickness, between other things, it have lasted and it has been the headquarters between 1938 and 1976 of the South American Gulf Oil Company (SAGOC), company exporter of the petroleum extracted of the Catatumbo, then of the Colombian Company of Petroleums, ECOPETROL and now headquarters of the Coveñas Naval Base.
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