I have just had a letter from Dr Pratt telling me about the certainty of getting state convicts on the Hickory Nut Gap road from the Rutherford County line to the Hickory Nut Gap. You will have a lasting monument to your memory if you give those good people over there around Bat Cave a way to get out: besides it will open up a way to the mountains for our Eastern bretheren. through our "Most beautiful "canyon"

We are advertising for a good roads meeting at Bat Cave Monday March 31st at which time you are scheduled to speak. I will leave here with you Dr Pratt & John Rutherford in my machine early Monday morning & go to Fairview. There Mr P. O. Merrell & Fairview friends have agreed to furnish conveyance & take us 8 miles to Bat Cave we can get there by noon

Judge Pritchard proved himself at our Rutherford meeting to be so narrow & little for a "Big Man" that we will leave him out at this meeting. I will try & get every body interested possible. Hendersonville will raise a howl because the state is building in the direction of Asheville; but we are going to invite them to the meeting just the same. With best wishes for your success at the same time extending to you my sincere thanks for your aid in this matter.