High Point Realty

In 1826, the area received the name of Rocky Point Lieutenant William Hale Hardy, a retired officer of the Royal Navy, while in search of pearls and precious metals during his travels along the coast of Sonora and Baja California. He was known on navigational charts by that name until 1936. Very close to Rocky Point, Mexico a gold mine was discovered, called the Sierra Pinta, which had two different owners between 1850 and 1910. Before ceasing operations, the mine belonged to a British company that had a merger where gold has been converted into bars and sent to San Francisco. This company has built a track for carts that ran from the mine to the processing of gold in the Estuary La Pinta.

After being baptized by William Hale Hardy, also known as Rocky Point ( Puerto Penasco ) continues to be a dreary desert place visited only occasionally by nomadic fishermen on their trips across the sea in the Gulf of Santa Clara or San Felipe, Baja California, or Arizona brave anglers who dared cross the great desert roads and trails to reach the sea

THE RAILWAY PROJECT ARIZONA-SONORA FAILED

Historian Charles J. Gaetjens, Ajo, Arizona, says that in 1915, John Campbell Greenway, manager of the mine in Ajo, Arizona, sent engineer Don Rait to conduct studies to establish a railroad Ajo Rocky Point along the best rout possible. The aim was to carry the ore to the coast of the Sea of Cortez and California, Sierra Pinta as mine did. Likewise, he sent engineers and Ed Ira Joralemon Malean Mexico to explore the area and looking for minerals to exploit, to bring them in Ajo, Arizona empty-handed. The work was interrupted in 1918 because of high cost inflation during the First World War.

A year later, in May 1919, and with his own money, recovered the Greenway project, sending four engineers Mine Ajo. The railway was established with initial capital of 100,000 pesos.

The partners were John C. Greenway and Dr. Louis D. Ricketts, with a grant from the Government of Mexico in June 1920 to date. In 1921, the study of the proposed railway from Arizona to Mexico has been completed. Several wells have been drilled in the desert, one of them 21 kilometers from the coast. In 1925, the company dropped the project, lack of investors.

Author: RealtyExecutives Mexico