Data over the next 200 years is lacking, but in 1851 there is a record of Bento Fernandes de Souza selling the property, then called S韙io Tucuri, to Englishman George Harley, who renamed it Bom Retiro ( " Nice Retreat " ) and built a house near the Tucuri Brook, later renamed Empire.
In 1918, the dispute resurfaces over the exploration of the water resources in Melga鏾, resulting in new competitors for the concession that included Empresa Santos, Sobral & Co . ( which had adopted its former statutes from 1894 ), the " Empreza das 羐uas Minerais ou Minero-Medicinais de Melga鏾 ", and the " Empreza das 羐uas Minerais de Melga鏾 " ( whose partners included Lu韘 Manuel Solheiro, L韈io de Miranda Solheiro and Bento Fernandes Pinto ).