Juan Perosio

Around the year 1873, Don Juan Perosio Parodi (1837-1918), born in Sarissola, Busalla, settled with a hydraulic mill in San Francisco, Uruguay, which he baptized with the name of "Mill of San Roque".

He worked very well in his first years, and his products, of first class, were not only in demand in Paysandú but were also recognized in other departments to which he sent his products.

In the industrial exhibition of Paysandú 1880, Juan Perosio Parodi obtained a gold medal and another of silver for the products of his mill San Roque, of San Francisco.

Encouraged by the result obtained by his hydraulic mill, and wanting to multiply his activities and give new impulse to his establishment, he installed large steam machinery; but a short time later, while the mill was working at its best, a fire reduced the facilities to ashes at a moment when the large warehouses were full of wheat and bags of flour.

Ruined financially, but willing to continue fighting, with the small insurance he had from his original establishment, he founded the mill and noodle factory of San Roque, on the road to Las Palmas, at a short distance from the city, also known as the Mill of the Cross; but Juan, with his small capital, could not face the competition from other establishments of the same nature that already existed in Paysandú, and was forced to abandon his former profession in which he had rendered great services to the population and in particular to the flour industry of Paysandú.