No account of the sugar industry of Cuba would be complete which failed to make special mention of some of the most notable enterprises now existing in that Island; or of the men mainly responsible for their inception and development. Taking them in the order of their productive capacity, the following list covers the most important of such properties: _Mills_ _Bags_ _Percentage_ _Controlled_ _Produced_ _of Crops_ Cuba Cane Sugar Corp 17 4,319,189 15.59 Cuban-American Sugar Co 6 1,938,368 7.00 Rionda Properties 7 1,856,563 6.60 United Fruit Co 2 776,045 2.80 Atkins Properties 4 736,043 2.66 Poté Rodriguez Properties 2 625,054 2.29 West Indies Sugar Finance Corp 3 619,204 2.23 Gomez-Mena Properties 2 605,000 2.19 Cuba Company Properties 2 587,800 2.12 Mendoza-Cunagua Property 1 452,583 1.64 The Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation was organized in 1915, to acquire and operate eighteen sugar properties upon which options had been obtained by Don Manuel Rionda, head of the long established sugar brokerage firm called the Czarnikow-Rionda Company, of New York City; who, though for many years a resident of the United States, still clings to his Spanish citizenship. Shortly after the organization of the corporation another large sugar property, including a railroad leading to a port on the Caribbean Sea, was acquired; but soon thereafter one of the original properties purchased was sold and another was dismantled, so that seventeen is the actual number now owned and operated by the corporation. Mr. Rionda deserved and received great credit for having negotiated, organized and launched the Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation, as and when he did; and the great success which almost immediately attended its consummation brought him great prestige and made him at once a dominant factor in and authority upon matters relating to sugar. It is immaterial that the eminence achieved was due largely, if not entirely, to the successive rises in the price of sugar, which applied especially to the crops of 1916, 1917 and 1919; for nothing succeeds like success.