 The Rosario Mining Company was rumoured to be involved in the change of the Honduras capital from Comayagua to its rival city of Tegucigalpa, which is closer to the mine.The then Honduran President, Marco Aurelio Soto, had shares in the firm.The company reached its peak during the 1920s when more than three thousand miners worked in the mine, and there was an American consulate at El Rosario.