Pile driving for the piers commenced on August 20 and the crew began to pour concrete for the first pier on October 13. A relatively mild winter allowed the work to continue, with the last pier poured in January. This schedule resulted in one fatality, however, as Stuart Wilson, who was employed dynamiting the large cakes of ice as they approached the bridge work, was killed on January 23 due to an ill-timed or defective fuse.

On January 28 the river froze completely, making the construction of the superstructure  easier. A second accident occurred in February when a timber fell from the top of the bridge hitting the deck and knocking over Joe Rousseau who fractured his ankle and his ribs.  These events remind us of the very different working conditions of the 19th and early 20th centuries.  

The original proposal had called for a steel bridge but by early 1928 the decision had been made to use wood. Although the Kersley Farmers’ Institute had petitioned to have the timber for the bridge cut locally, it was prepared in Vancouver and shipped by rail.  Each piece was cut to size and shape according to a plan and numbered to identify where it was to be placed. The timbers were also treated with creosote.  Unfortunately the foreman in charge of the framing was discharged before the bridge was built and took the key with him.  Bert Allcock, who later became the Department of Public Works’ General Foreman for the Cariboo District, was able to recreate the key based on the numbered timbers and copies of plans for the Howe trusses.  He was also responsible for filling the western approach to the bridge. In his memoirs he recorded that they had two dump trucks and loaded the dirt by hand from a nearby side hill a few hundred yards away.  They moved enough dirt to make a flat piece of land large enough that subsequently two houses were built on it.