 Once his work on the railway was completed, he moved to Bahía Blanca before returning to Mendoza in 1889 to settle permanently.Though his formal training was in designing railway bridges, he soon sought other opportunities.In 1895 he founded the very first winery in the area, Bodega Norton, located to the south of the Mendoza River in the district of Perdriel, in the department of Luján de Cuyo.