On other hand, Don Ricardo left for Manila whose interest was more along the “medical fields” unlike his two brothers who were engaged in export-import and large-scale sugarcane farming in Negros. As time progressed, the sugar plantation of Don Ramon in Cadiz developed progressively and became the center of social activities where his brothers, some Spanish mestizo and Filipino associates, and nephews along with their friends as guests took their time out for leisure to visit Cadiz and his family.
In the later years, the estates of the two Mascuñana brothers dwindled in size as some of their properties according to information were either given freely to whoever they sponsored in wedding celebrations, leased, sold or paid off for gambling debts incurred and also for maintaining their other families, among others.
