Yugoslavia

for that period. No doubt, after making their fortune in the silver fields, they returned to their
original pursuits of restaurant, saloon and hotel keepers. Thus, Nikola Trianovich and C.
Novacovich ventured into Aurora, one of the wildest mining towns in the West in the 1860's.
At the same time that the famed silver lodes were being discovered in Virginia City,
Aurora, less than 100 miles away was becoming one of the richest silver mining towns in the
history of America. First called Esmeralda in 1860, tents sprang up overnight and the famed
Wells-Fargo cut the first road, scaling the rugged mountains to Esmeralda's 7500 foot gulches
and inaugurated freight and passenger service over the Sierra to Sacramento.
The rich mines attracted so many people that on November 25, 1861 the Nevada
Territonal Legislature established Esmeralda County, naming Aurora its County Seat.
With Aurora at the height of its mining boom, the following advertisement appeared in
the Aurora Times on Oct. 7,1864:
l