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 | | His father, Don Jose Bandini, denounced a mine on their Rancho Tecate as early as 1837 and even while developing the Jurupa and Rincon grants in the early forties, Bandini had speculated on the possibility of mines in that area, sending ore samples to Mazatlan for assaying. |
 | | Thus, during the fifties, Juan Bandini was to suffer the buffetings of misfortune created by the war and gold rush, Indians and outlaws, filibusters and, most deadly of all, the constantly changing political situation in Mexico. |
 | | Not only was Bandini obliged to defend his own titles in the Rancho Tecate and Rancho Guadalupe, but, as attorney-in-fact for Abel Stearns, he was constantly concerned with the Rancho Los Vallecitos and Rancho San Rafael and soon found the situation intolerable. |
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