He had arrived to Puerto Madryn in 1885 for the construction of Central Chubut Railway, then going to the National Geology Department in Buenos Aires to request permission for exploiting salt evaporation ponds.

Salt was stored in bags and carried to the port of San José, where it was loaded and transported to Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires or Montevideo.

A hotel, the headquarters, the fuel depot, a workshop and a warehouse to store tracks were built, apart from the post office and the houses for locomotive drivers and other workers.

[1] Apart from operating the rail line, Ferro y Piaggio was the concession of 15,000 hectare in Salinas Grandes, where the production reached 12,000 tons.

[1] The railway owned five steam locomotives, being a 0-4-0T Krauss 2249 (1890), a 0-6-0 Jung 451 (1900) and three 0-6-0 Orenstein & Koppel among them,[1] a part of three goods wagons and one passenger cars.

[1] Since World War I the salt production (due in part to the development of chillers as a more modern method for the conservation of food) started decreasing so the company's revenues were not as expected.

[3] All the company's assets were acquired by entrepreneur Alejandro Ferro, although the lack of documents or titles that proved his rights over the line made the railway was closed in 1920.

[4] A report by United States Department of Commerce revealed that the railway was deficient since 1916 although financial problems had begun in 1904.