Storage continues to be problem at courthouse Mineral Daily News-Tribune Tribune Managing Editor KEYSER - Employees at the Mineral County Courthouse have been complaining for years that they are running out of storage room, and the situation hasn’t gotten any better. Now, county clerk Lauren Ellifritz is looking to purchase another outside building in order to try to slow the rapid takeover of her office by records and other items that cannot by state law be thrown away. “I am completely out of room,” she said. “We’re overwhelmed.” Ellifritz says her office, the vault in which many of the county’s books are kept, and even two other storage sheds which she had previously purchased are currently busting at the seams.