This settler formed part of a group of Spanish settlers in Santa Cruz many of whom came at the instance of Don José Montes, and to whom the territory owes most of its progress. They were men resolved to triumph at any cost, bringing with them an inexhaustible fund of energy which they might employ successfully in working almost virgin soil which offered magnificent prospects to those who, like themselves, were prepared for the struggle with the wilderness, and the hard toil they were about to undertake.

Don Victoriano worked for some years with Messrs. José and Pedro Montes on the lands occupied by the stations "Bahia" and "La Angelina". They parted in 1900, each partner receiving a piece of ground, the extent of which was reckoned on the basis of his respective share of the capital.

Mr. Rivera soon made his estancia a thriving one, he endowed it with the costliest fittings, some of them even monumental in appearance.

This settler, whose energy and assiduity were proverbial in the zone, when he found himself owner of sufficient capital, enlarged his operations and set about stocking other lands in the territory founding on them establishments, which, when he retired from active life, were in full working order.

Before leaving Patagonia to settle down in his native land, Don Victoriano founded on the basis of his properties, a limited liability company the shares in which he handed over to his children, retaining for himself sufficient to live on the proceeds.