Vancouver and Seattle newspapers. Much of the evidence which came forward showed the influence of Woodside for Henderson and J.J. Walsh for Carmack, although other original participants in the gold rush voiced their opinions. Copies of the documentation outlining the compensation awarded Henderson proved compelling evidence, but equally strong arguments were put forward by Mrs. Margarite Carmack, widow of the other main contender, which included a resolution of the Seattle Lodge Number 2, Yukon Order of Pioneers, passed on August 1,1921. The membership declared George Carmack the man who, "found the combination to the lock on Canada's refrigerator." Indeed, Howay conceded, school children in Dawson celebrated Discovery Day on August 17, the date of the Bonanza claim. Howay swayed back and forth between these positions as each new argument arrived in the mail. In the end, he explained to Harkin his quandary about what to propose as a draft inscription: I have as you know been looking into this matter for the past year or so; and the more I look into it the more I fear to undertake the effort.The first thing we really have to settle is what we mean exactly by the "discovery of gold in the Yukon." If we take the words literally, we must go back to the days of the sixties. Of course that is not the sense in which they are used. But when we get down to the days preceding thegreat gold rush, we must decide whether we mean by "discovery"merely the