Editing Stites, Idaho (section)

==History==
[[File:Elk City Stage, January 1909 - Stites, Idaho (49904137348).jpg|thumb|left|Stage coach in Stites, Jan. 1909]]
Stites was named for Jacob Stites of [[New Jersey]], who [[Homestead Act|homesteaded]] the land in 1897 which became the city.<ref name=qustnspst>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3c1eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3DIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6449%2C3585472|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=Quiet Stites recalls a noisier past|last=Campbell|first=Thomas W. |date=January 24, 1965|page=1-sec 2 }}</ref><ref name=snafwtosl>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JLpeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mjAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5973%2C749300|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=Stites, named after founder, was terminus of 'Short Line'|date=October 6, 1955|page=8-LCSE}}</ref> He sold two years later and exercised his option to name it. Stites became the eastern terminus [[Northern Pacific Railroad|Northern Pacific]] branch line up the Clearwater in 1900,<ref name=nprr39>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mZpfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hDEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1432,4036341&dq=stites&hl=en|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|last=Arney|first=C.E.|title=Railroad pioneers blazed path for Idaho civilization|date=May 20, 1939|page=10}}</ref> later the [[Camas Prairie Railroad]]'s first subdivision line. It climbed the main river eastward from [[Lewiston, Idaho|Lewiston]] to Kooskia and then turned south to ascend the lower South Fork.<ref name=tnnms>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=34NfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wzAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5485,2911946 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=There is usually a logical reason for the name a town ends up with|date=February 25, 1990 |page=11-Centennial }}</ref> The abandoned spur was removed in the 1980s,<ref name=spurok>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ef5LAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sPkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6724%2C495382 |newspaper=Spokane Chronicle|title=Railroad spur removal OK'd|agency=Associated Press|date=July 2, 1985|page=B4}}</ref> and the city incorporated in early 1905.

The original [[U.S. Route 95 in Idaho|highway]] bridge (1911) that crossed the [[Salmon River (Idaho)|Salmon River]] just north of [[Riggins, Idaho|Riggins]] was replaced in 1936 and moved {{convert|50|mi|spell=in}} north to Stites.<ref name=hdwest>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rrQpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jPEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1524%2C8470304 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Time Zone Bridge over Salmon River heading west |date=May 19, 1997 |page=A7}}</ref><ref name=tmzmon>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ns9eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8DIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4814%2C1706374 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |last=Johnson |first=David |title=Time (zone) marches on |date=June 21, 1997 |page=1A}}</ref>