The Lithopolis people gained one victory--they elected Judge Horace Stone County Treasurer.

Within a month N.V.Creede had opened a law office in Monterey Centre, Dick McGill had begun the publication of the Monterey Centre _Journal_ of fragrant memory, Lithopolis began to advertise its stone quarries, and Grizzly Reed, an old California prospector, who had had his ear torn off by a bear out in the mountains, began prospecting for gold along the creek, and talking mysteriously.

The sale of lots in Lithopolis went on faster than ever..