The area had attracted gold miners and miners of vesuvianite, also known as "Pulga Jade". The town was always small, and peaked in size in the 1930s and 1940s with a few hundred people.
The region's appeal for gold mining and vesuvianite (Pulga Jade) extraction drew miners to the area, leading to a small town with a fluctuating population peaking in the 1930s and 1940s.