21.- Oregon and Washington

21.1 OREGON BASQUES
In Oregon, Basque establishments are to be found in localities such as Ontario, Vale, Crane, Andrews, and Jordan Valley. In 1997 Jordan Valley refurbished its historic pelota court, built by Basque stonecutters between 1915 and 1917. Several of the local businesses are Basque, among them the Basque Station and Basque Motel, and a service station with motel belonging to the Madariaga family. There, not far from Yturri Boulevard, one finds the Old Basque Inn restaurant in a building that formerly was an ostatua. In Oregon there are four Basque associations or clubs today, specifically in Ontario, Burns, Bend, and Portland.

21.2 ALSO IN WASHINGTON
In Washington State, the Elizalde-Arralde family, who arrived in Yakima in 1912 from San Francisco, opened one of several ostatuak. In other parts of the state there were Basques working in forestry. The Basque Cedar Company was established in Clallam Bay, in the extreme northeast. The children and grandchildren of those Basque pioneers and young Basques from other states make up the membership of the two clubs founded in the 1990's in Washington, namely the Seattle Euskal Etxea, in Seattle, and in Spokane, the Inland Northwest Euskal Etxea.