His "cut" had been big enough except when it was silted up by the debris coraiDg ff.TVw He suffered very much last spring. Onth! 11th October, witness went from Clyde to the farm and saw that the water in Spottis creek was dirty and muddy, and the low l an d was flooded. Witness had wheat and oats in the low lands. The colour of the creek was red, like all tail water, and witness knew from its colour that it had been discoloured by stuff from miners' claims. On the 25th October wit ness again went to the farm,. It was fine that day, and had been for some days previous in Clyde He found that the Spottis creek was in flood and the water very thick and dirty. There i» as a road acrosß the creek which acted as a dam and backed the water on sections 13 and 18. When the water gathered in these sections it found its way over the road into sec tion 17, which was rich, low-ljing land. The water appeared to witness to have been in tbat state for some days. Witness remained at the farm that night, and his manajer and he arranged that James Percy should, on the next day, follow up the creek on horseback to ascertain the cause of the floods. On the 2ndHovember witness a^atn went to the farm There had been no rain, and the creek was all right, the water being clear. On the 11th witness drove outi to the farm. There had been heavy rain on' the Bth, but nothing to warrant a flood, and the 9th, 10th, and 11th were all fine days. On the 11th witness found the creek very high, higher than he had seen it before in the year—a perfect sheet of water over all the land; The. water did not look quite so red and dirty as on previous occasions. On the ISth the weather was fine, but the flood had not gone down. The creek was more coloured, especially in the middle where the current was. After the flood of November gravel and silt were left on the soil. About4o acres of land had been under water, and from a few acres the soil was washed completely away. 