Transcription with photograph: "Panaca [Nevada] jail in one of these caves, iron grill gates served as doors." Pioche desperados were put in Court Rock and held captive until it was time for them to make an appearance before court.
Conflicting descriptions of this image. One reads: "Men outside tents they lived in while waiting for jobs on the Dam." Another by W. A. Davis reads "Three miners out near Tonopah on road to Pioche... Man on the left named 'Jim'."
Description provided with image: "In the fall of 1924 representatives of the Chambers of Commerce of Panaca, Pioche, and Caliente met with Governor James G. Scrugham to request the establishment of a state park at Cathedral Gorge. L-R: Elbert Edwards, Nephi Edwards, E. C. D. Marriage, Willard Smith, William H. Edwards, A. L. Scott, Herman Frudenthal, Governor Scrugham, Earl Grotto, Arthur V. Lee, George L. Edwards, Col. Thomas Miller, and Ernest T. Gentry. (Photo by Dr. Mark R. Harrington). Boulder Dam."