A stage line served Aurum three times a week. After the mines closed down, the store and post office continued to serve the Cleveland, Bassett, Odgers, Yelland, Sampson, Cameron, McHugh and Davis ranches. Ben Sanford was the postmaster and storekeeper in 1897. On 11 February 1884, a snowslide hit a lodging house, store, stables and other buildings in the camp killing Wallace Crimmon, John Fox and foreman W. H. Mitchell. It is not know if any of these victims were interred here.
Nothing remains of the camps but the cemetery.
Of the eighteen visible graves, only five markers could still be read in 1971, Cameron, Doherty, Hughes, Killam and Palmerton. In July 1999 Palmerton's marker was missing or unreadable. A Hamilton resident who left there in 1878, it was he suggested the Latin name of Aurum, meaning gold, for the new camp in 1881 when the post office turned down the suggested name of Silver Canyon. Co-owner with others of Boston, Massachusetts, of the Sadie L., Bluebell, and the Buckhorn Mines. The Conflict is Past.