2023-11-16 08:00:00
History always takes care of positioning the pioneers of peoples as almost heroes. But without detracting from many, there are those who have a B side that also deserves to be known. It is the case of Casimiro Gómez, a Spaniard who arrived in Buenos Aires in the late 1800s At the age of 13 he began to venture into the world of saddlery.
He is recognized for having been the local landowner who donated the land for the seat of the new capital at the time. Confluence Place. Did you donate? It was not so. There we go to the history of the first real estate company in the Neuquen city.
His tireless work and ambition for progress pushed him back in 1879 to become a renowned businessman with his own leather factory, “La Nacional”, one of the most important in Argentina. And this data is not minor. Gómez became the main supplier of saddles and regulatory luggage to the Argentine Armywhich led by Julio Argentino Roca carried out the so-called “Conquest of the Desert”.
Their products were not paid for in money. The national force gave him land of the Confluencia area in exchange and it was thus that Casimiro Gómez became the owner of the lands adjacent to the Neuquén Ferrocarriles del Sud station, the central point from which the capital of Neuquén developed. He used the same methodology to expand his assets in Buenos Aires, Santiago del Estero and La Pampa, among other provinces.
Already a wealthy landowner, Gómez saw the arrival of the extension of the railway in 1902, to that adobe hamlet with aspirations of being a big city. And “neither dull nor lazy” he began to perceive that there would be a great business there.
The train, which allowed direct communication and transportation with the center of the country, caused the land in Neuquén to revalue by 50%. Casimiro Gómez then negotiated the purchase with the other land owners at ridiculous prices, thus keeping 80% of the capital’s land. His ties with the then governor of the Territory, Carlos Bouquet Roldán and the Minister of the Interior, Joaquín V. González, helped achieve his objectives.
Thus, the landowner He bought new land for 1 peso per hectare that following forming the public limited company Nueva España (a type of real estate company), He sold them to the municipality of the capital at values of between 500 and 600 pesos per hectare. In other cases, he gave them up in exchange for benefits and tax exemptions.
Thus, it would be demonstrated that he was not the benefactor of the new capital, but simply a skillful trader who knew how to take advantage of the times that were being experienced in the territory.
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