Use of timber of White Cedar

The White Cedar furnishes excellent shingles, much more durable than those made of either Pine or Cypress; in Philadelphia the wood is much esteemed and greatly used in cooperage. "Charcoal," according to Michaux, "highly esteemed in the manufacture of gunpowder, is made of young stocks, about an inch and a half in diameter, deprived of their bark; and the seasoned wood affords beautiful lamp-black, lighter and more intensely colored than that obtained from the Pine."