The conditions of life in México in those times were unstable and dangerous: travel was uncertain and unsafe, to the extent that on a given year the Grand Master could not even attend the Annual Grand Communication. Some of the Lodges were not able to get their reports through or had to meet at different times than usual. The proceedings would be printed with omissions or mistakes, since "it is rather a hard matter for the printers to be exact when the bullets are flying around all day long". One result was that a number of foreign residents left the country in search of healthier climates.

were the times when the newly named York Grand Lodge of México clearly explained and stated which ground it was standing on and which were going to be its principles and ways of working.

Its membership stood at 1,188 with 18 Lodges in December of 1910, right after most of its previous members who practiced the Scottish Rite in Spanish had left it to set up what has been since then the Gran Logia Valle de México. Since 1913, the membership of the York Grand Lodge of México had started to decline slowly and steadily. By December of 1918 it was just above a thousand, actually 1,012, with virtually only 15 Lodges.