In the same year French financiers initiated the construction of the largest textile factory in Latin America, which was inaugurated on October 9, 1892, by President Porfirio Díaz.

The municipality of Río Blanco is delimited to the north by Ixhuatlancillo and Orizaba to the south-east by Rafael Delgado and to the west by Nogales.

Río Blanco's company store was leased to Victor Garcín, a Barcelonnette who had been in the region for some decades since 1897.

He was already an important landowner in the Orizaba valley, since in that year CIVSA bought land from him to build a water channel.

The massacre of January 7 and 8 1907, known in Mexican history as the Río Blanco strike, put company stores in the Orizaba valley on the national front stage as one of the main causes of workers discontent.