100 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



In 1891, desiring to engage in private business, Mr. J. G. Woodbury 

 resigned as superintendent of hatcheries. In 1893, the board appointed 

 Mr. John P. Babcock to fill the newly created position of chief deputy 

 of the California Fish Commission, in which capacity Mr. Babcock 

 acted from 1893 until T901, when he resigned to accept a position with 

 the government of British Columbia. 



The successful transportation of eggs and fry from Eastern states in 

 the seventies was due to Dr. Livingston Stone, a fishculturist of the 

 United States Fish Commission. On each of the several difficult trans- 

 continental trips Dr. Stone proved that he understood the care of fish. 

 As much of acclimatization work was a cooperative project by the 

 United States Fish Commission and the California Fish Commission, 

 Dr. Stone was at times under the employ of the California commission. 

 This was true also when he became superintendent of the McCloud 

 River Hatchery, for the California commission bore a portion of the cost 

 of hatching and planting the salmon. 



Mr. J. A. Richardson, who had been employed by the United States 

 commission at the Baird Hatchery, and who was an assistant at the San 

 Leandro Hatchery, was made Superintendent of the Shebley Hatchery 

 when it was built in 1883. Mr. Richardson resigned in the fall of the 

 same year, and Mr. I. C. Frazier was appointed to succeed him. Mr. 

 Frazier was a successful and competent fishculturist, who had been a 

 student of fish life for a great many years. In the early seventies he 

 associated himself with some of the acclimatization societies and later 

 established a hatchery, with rearing ponds, on the Truckee River. In 



1884, owing to ill health, he resigned as superintendent of the Shebley 

 Hatchery, and Mr. J. V. Shebley was appointed superintendent. In 



1885, Mr. J. V. Shebley was appointed Superintendent of Hatcheries, 

 and Mr. W. H. Shebley succeeded him at the Shebley Hatchery. Mr. 

 Frazier later became superintendent of the Tahoe Hatchery, and 

 Mr. Richardson was again employed as an assistant. 



When the Sisson Hatchery was built, in 1888, Mr. J. A. Richardson 

 was appointed superintendent, and he managed the station until 1893, 

 when Mr. W. H. Shebley succeeded him. The largest hatchery in Cali- 

 fornia, and in some respects the largest in the United States, was for 

 twenty-one years under the efficient supervision of Mr. W. H. Shebley. 

 As superintendent he demonstrated that millions of trout could be 

 successfully reared each year without serious loss. 



The pioneer work of introducing the first shipments of trout in the 

 barren waters of the Yosemite region was carried on by Mr. Shebley, 

 who introduced the first fish in the waters above the valley in 1892. 



In November, 1911, the commission created the office of fishculture 

 and distribution, and Mr. Shebley was assigned to this new division of 

 the work. A successful organization of this department was soon 

 accomplished, with the division of screens and fishways, as part of the 

 department of fishculture. As the duties of this work required Mr. 

 Shebley to be away much of the time, Mr. R. W. Requa was made 

 assistant superintendent of the Sisson Hatcher}^ and he very ably 

 assisted in conducting the work of the station. Being a skilled 

 mechanic, Mr. Requa invented and perfected the rotary type of screen 

 used in irrigation ditches. 



