There are 359 open cases on the docket of the Storey County courthouse old property maps from the 1859 claims to the richest strikes were lost and destroyed in fire. the legal strategy of the SF bankers who bankrolled the army of lawyers was to delay, riposte, and lie. tactics were cutthroat, bribery was the common practice – accepted by all concerned because it was preferable to the other tactic of murder and arson. records were often altered, property lines moved illegally, juries openly bought.