Built after the town was removed from the U.S. Forest by a 1911 presidential proclamation, this jail replaced the constable's home or a Forest Service cabin for restraining rowdy miners and holding suspects until a sheriff's deputy arrived. A colorful story tells of a burly miner who frequently used the bunk to raise the roof, slip out, and return to the saloon, then climbed back into his cell before morning. Its most noted prisoner was Ben Kuhl, who robbed the Rogerson-Jarbidge Stage in December 1916 and killed driver Fred Searcy. That crime was the last mail stagecoach robbery in the U.S. and produced the first conviction based on a bloody palmprint. The jail was last used about 1945.