The tidelands south of King Street a few months after the Great Fire of 1889. The burned district is rebuilding although many businesses are still encamped in tents. The view looks south from near the corner of Second and Cherry Street. Beacon Hill is on the left horizon. The rows of pilings punched into the tidelands are daring and presumptive. There fate of the tidelands is still waiting on decision’s of the new state’s legislature includenced by these “jumpers” and “squatters” but more effectively by the railroads.