Folks all around the Oconto County area have been getting caught up in the exciting race as H & B and the Oconto each seek to patent a new and improved way of cutting timber. One of the most compelling parts of this drama is that the two men behind the saws use to be fast friends and colleagues! Since the story first broke, this reporter has worked very hard to learn more of this falling out. Sometimes women, or money causes these things, but in the case of two men of science what else could it be but their work? Timber cutting seems to have been a principal interest of both fellows and a few years back they were both working on a project together. This was the Cuts-Saw or Hydro-Saw, depending on whom you ask. It was a similar contraption to what they are working for now, instead of ghost rock it was powered by water. My sources say that, believe it or not, Dr. Quigley had his heart set on naming it the Cuts-Saw.
Which if you say right sounds like “cuts all.” And that’s what Quigley felt it’d do.
Ladd, on the other hand thought that was a poor name for such a grand device and wanted it named the Hydro-saw. Neither Dr. could spare anytime to confirm or deny this as each hurries to finish up work on their saw.
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