Albruna form. He similarly points to the celtic origin of the name Veleda and to Nedoma's criticism of Schramm. Schuhmann himself sees in Aurinia a mixed Celtic-Latin form consisting of the Latin prefix "aurum", borrowed from Celtic as in "aurum" for "gold" and the genuinely Celtic suffix "-inios", "-inia". He refers, among other things, to a male form of "Auriniacus". According to him, therefore, Aurinia had the original meaning "Goldine". An older attempt at an etymology is that of Gilbert Trathnigg cited by Helmut Birkhan. Trathnigg, who calls Aurinia the correct form, associates the name with the Old English "éar" (wave,
Aurum, Nevada locally as "Doughburg." On February 11, 1884, an avalanche occurred in Silver Canyon, above the boarding house of the Sadie L Mine. Three people were killed. Two of the victims, H. W. Mickel, and Wallace McCrimmon, were buried at Aurum. The other victim, John Fox, was taken into Cherry Creek for burial. Over the following decades, the community experienced multiple periods of boom and bust. During booms, the community's population rapidly swelled to hundreds of people. However, during busts, miners left, businesses closed, and the population rapidly dwindled. During one of these "busts", the population dropped to only one inhabitant