Sulzer, Alaska is a ghost town on Prince of Wales Island in the U.S. state of Alaska. The community centered on a copper mine established by William Sulzer on the shore of Hetta Inlet.William Sulzer Alaska mining papers, 1901-1941, University of Alaska Fairbanks Operated by the Alaska Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company,Mines Register, Vol. 12, Walter Harvey Reed, 1916 the Jumbo Mine was active from 1907 to 1918 and was one of Alaska's largest copper producers.Guide to the William H. Case Alaska Photographs, circa 1908, University of Washington Library
Charles August Sulzer, brother of William and delegate to the United States Congress from the Territory of Alaska, lived in Sulzer when he took ill in April 1919 and died while on board a boat en route to Ketchikan.SULZER, Charles August, (1879 - 1919), Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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