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Surname: KIRCHEN, GILLIES
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"Who's Who in Nevada", published about 1909, further publication
information
unknown :
"John G. Kirchen. Among the men who are actively engaged in helping to
swell the production receipts of Tonopah's mines, is John G. Kirchen.
Mr. Kirchen is general manager of the Tonopah Extension Mining Company's
property, and in this capacity he has charge of the development work of
the mine. When the various interests of Don Gillies made it impossible
for him to devote the necessary time to the acitve management of the Tonopah
Extension, Mr. Kirchen was chosen to fill his place, and all who are conversant
with the affairs of the mine declare that the choice was a wise one.
Mr. Kirchen was born at Lake Linden, Michigan, thirty-five years ago, and
he received his mining education at the Michigan College of Mines, at Houghton,
Michigan, where he graduated in 1894. He was connected with various large
copper interests in the Michigan copper districts for six years before
he came west. Since that time he has been engaged in the examination of
mines for eastern capitalists, and this work has carried him into nearly
every mining field of the west. Though a young man, his opinion carries
weight with men of prominence, and he has been remarkably successful in
everything he has undertaken."