By July 1871 a four-way fight had developed over the site of the permanent location of the courthouse. The Nevada State Journal maintained that the location of the county buildings on the south side of the Truckee River was against the wishes of three-fourths of the taxpayers and decidedly against the manifest interests of the county. The almost if not entirely unanimous wish of the voters of Reno is that the order shall be reviewed and the subject thoroughly reexamined. Three days before the award, an action had been commenced on the ground that the selected site was not in the Town of Reno, the place to which the county seat had been removed, seeking to restrain the commissioners from erecting the county buildings outside of the original plat of Reno on the south side of the river. Construction began on the courthouse on April 20, 1872.
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