Pearson's are not unknown in China. As already mentioned they were the contractors who built the Pekin Syndicate railway in Honan, line which, as demonstrated in a comparative table published in the Far Eastern Review in 1909, was the lowest in first cost of any railway yet constructed in China. But their work has mostly been at home and in America where the magnitude of their operations will be understood when it tated that their contracts during the last few years have amounted to £35,000,000. In ten years they have built fourteen railways, and have carried out innumerable harbour, breakwater, dock, waterworks and drainage schemes, are the new Thames dock, which is Among their latest undertakings to cost 1,400,000, and the new port works at Valparaiso for the Chilian Government, for which their tender of £2,600,000 was accepted in preference to those of other British, French, and German firms who competed.
It is a significant symptom of the belief prevalent in Europe that large developments are in prospect in China that a firm of the ead decided to establish ianauiece at and reputation of Pearson's have
Peking, like so many other of the leading British and foreign contractors engaging in large public works, Pearson' fortunate in their for Mr. Bourne has
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