Show SEVERAL CHANGES IN OIL PERMIT RULES the department of the interior Is i beginning to issue new prospecting permits to drill for oil and gas on the public domain it will be remembered that the department stopped issuing new permits on march 13 1929 the order was later modified so as to allow the reinstatement of permits on which the owners could show expenditures lor geology and other ork last april the department lifted the ban altogether with the provision that the would agree to unit atlon congress having passed the nc essary legislation allowing the secretary of the interior to insist on unit operation of a given structure the new permits differ from the old in that respect particularly as in several other respects |