Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1909 — $1,000,000 IN GRAIN AND HOPS DESTROYED [ARTICLE]

$1,000,000 IN GRAIN AND HOPS DESTROYED

Fire Consumes 2,000 Feet of Docks In California. San Francisco, Juno I.—Two thousand feet of the Nevada grain docks at Port Costa, In which all the grain from California for foreign ports is loaded, were burned. The loss is estimated at more than 91,000,000. Nine hundred tons of grain and iOO tons of hops were destroyed.