"Of course we will build it. Come up and I'll let you have a lot to build you a printing office on for when this road is built DOTHEN will swaller up all the little towns from Montgomery to Tallahassee and I dont want you to be left out. WE WOULD HAVE HAD THE ROAD COMPLETED IF THEY TOOK STEERS, CARTS, GOPHERS, ETC., BUT THEY WON'T HAVE NOTHING BUT LAND. But we will have it, for John Dowling can build it through Dale, them Troy fellers through Pike and I'll sock her through old Henry and them Flurdy fellers can do as they please about it and let her rip." ~ Dave Rattlehead in the April 22, 1886 COLUMBIA RECORDER