Frederick Stark Pearson: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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Unstable governments in Mexico along with rampant bribery and corruption of public officials caused Pearson considerable grief. The government of president [[Venustiano Carranza]] nationalized his Mexican Tramway Company and in the end, he lost virtually everything he had invested in Mexico. During this time, he was behind the 1911 construction of the [[Medina Dam]] on the [[Medina River]] in what is now [[Mico, Texas]] and built an irrigation district encompassing more than 34,000 acres (138 km²). The town of [[Pearson, Texas]] was named in his honor.

In 1912, he organized a syndicate in [[Hale County, Texas]] near [[Plainview, Texas|Plainview]] for drilling irrigation wells to irrigate about 60,000 acres (243 km²). During the course of his work in Texas, Pearson founded the town of [[Natalia, Texas|Natalia]], naming it after his daughter, Natalie Stark Pearson (1889–1956), who later married [[Reginald Nicholson]].

In 1913, he negotiated a deal with the [[Spain|Spanish]] government for a hydro project on the [[Ebro River]] and formed the [[Barcelona Traction]], Light and Power Company to carry out the construction that was completed in 1915. However, [[World War I]] limited his activity.