Coming in Friday's Dayton Appeal

Ghosts of the past are haunting the Virginia City real estate market.

Selling real estate on the Comstock was always a challenge, with conflicts over surface rights and mineral rights, plus a survey done in the 19th century that wasn't accurate by today's standards.

Now, the inability to obtain real estate records online in Storey County is causing Stewart Title Co., the only company to offer title insurance in Virginia City in the past few years, to consider halting its service.