The Bar Mill.—A third mill, which was built near the “Guernsey Works,” was opened in 1902.  This was established by a West Virginia corporation, authorized December 11, 1901, to do business in Ohio, with location at Cambridge.  Although incorporated as the Cambridge Rolling Mill Company, it was locally known as the “bar mill.” About 175 men were employed at the beginning.  Its products were rounds, angle-bars and small rails, that were fashioned from old rails obtained from railroad companies.  After it had been operated for a few years, the mill was closed.

     It was later purchased by the Interstate Iron and Steel Company, and reopened on January 8, 1907.  This corporation of outside capitalists conducted mills similar toe he one here, at Chicago, Indiana, and East Chicago, Indiana.  The Cambridge plant employed approximately 300 men.  This mill was later closed and many of the workmen were transferred elsewhere.

     A few years afterwards a third company, composed largely of Cambridge capitalists, obtained the plant and, after making extensive improvements, reopened it. Following a period of operation the mill was again closed.  It was later dismantled.

     Important to Cambridge.—With all the plants operating, the Cambridge iron and steel industry was at its height during or immediately following the World War.  For many years employment was given to at least 1,500 men, who, perhaps, represented families with a total of 6,000 persons.  To maintain such a population—a small city in itself—other necessary lines of business were opened.  Last year (1937), although the “Guernsey Works” operated only ten and one-half months, it paid its workmen $1, 515, 000.  Had it enjoyed a full year, as it did in 1936, the pay roll would have reached $1,718,000. It is obvious that much of Cambridge’s material growth and prosperity ahs resulted form its iron and steel industry.

  Community Mill--Stories of Guernsey County by Wm. Wolfe page 917

The oldest continuous industry in Quaker City is now known as the Community Mill.  It was built in 1854, the year the railroad entered the town, by Isaac W. Hall, Thomas Moore and others, at a cost of $15,000.  For many years this mill produced an average of seventy-five barrels of flour a day.  The A. Cochran Company’s planning and saw-mill had it’s beginning in 1871.  J. B. Lydick was the original owner.

  Miller's Mill--Liberty Township

  Pioneer Mill--Stories of Guernsey County by Wm. Wolfe page 920-921

     A Pioneer Mill.—As stated before in this chapter, John Webster built one of the first mills, if not the first mill, in Guernsey county.  The following concerning this mill was written by Cyrus Hall:

     After there had been a crop of corn planted in the spring of 1807, John Webster directed his attention towards building a grist mill on Leatherwood creek, a few hundred yards above the present location of the Quaker City depot.  It was finished in the autumn of 1807, or the early spring of the next year.  It was not long until there were byways sought out through the unbroken forest, by blazing trees and saplings in the desired direction, chopping off the bushes and the drooping limbs of trees that hung over the intended pathway form the mill to the neighboring inhabitants, and to the more remote settlers, to a distance of some eight or ten miles in different directions, so as to admit of pack horses passing to and from the mill.  Those pathways were made over dividing ridges, down declivities, and through dense secluded thickets of grapevines which grew along the slops in massive entanglement.

     The mill proved to be of special advantage to all the neighboring inhabitants.  John Webster conferred a special favor, not only on his own numerous family, but on the community at large, in the timely accomplishment of this work at so early stage of the settlement.

     In the first erection of the grist mill it was designed to have a saw run by means of gearing attachments to the same water wheel, but there was not sufficient water poser to run both at the same time to any advantage.  But a saw mill seemed to be a pressing necessity at this time, owing to the scarcity of plank amid the wholesale destruction of so much good timber in clearing, as oak and black and white walnut; the two later grew to great perfection along the Leatherwood bottom.

     Webster’s mill was the common center from the dividing ridge between Beaver and Seneca creeks on the south, to Salt Fork creek near the old Wheeling road on the north.  There were lonely cabins erected along those creeks, which, in due time, became surrounded by garden spots, and partly, by small fields of corn which grew to better advantage at this early stage of the settlement than any of the other cereals.  It was used for bread by the mass of the people for the first few years after the settlement began, and also in a multitude of other ways.