 In 1921 he became a delegate of Dirección General de Agricultura, Minas y Montes in Navarre and continued at this position until the late-1920s, taking up jobs also in commercial companies.In the late 1920s he moved into a new house, designed by a noted Pamplona architect , and set in his Dehesa de San Juan estate near Milagro.The 1923 advent of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship was greeted ambiguously by the Integrists, who welcomed doing away with rotten democracy but abhorred declaration of loyalty to the 1876 constitution, considered original sin of the Restoration system.